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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1905
Page
12
Local notices list fashion house Callon A W King & Son offering late styles in full suits. Catherine Schlosser returns from Decatur. Frank Baker and family back from Huntington Ind. Various moves, visits, and a list of social items appear alongside a fatal infant death and a church notices.
Miss Gertrude Osborn’s funeral services were held Sunday at the Osborn home on Jackson Street with Rev. P O Rhodes of the U Re church officiating. The body rests in Riverside cemetery.
Mrs. Fred Schlosser and son Frederick are visiting in Toledo while Mr. and Mrs. George Marcellus learn their daughter Blanche of Chicago is seriously ill. Mrs. Marcellus leaves for Chicago. WA Rehnast Hardware Co plans a seven day sale of Reliable Steel Ranges starting September 11 with a premium offered to each buyer.
Peaches for sale advertise choice fruit with a mailing option near Florida canal road. Palmer and Son sell 214 acres in Delaware township to Frank M Greenler for 10500 dollars. I N Breckbill funeral noted with church service and pallbearers. Judge Sutphen secured 400 dollars annual Defiance College support. Divorce suit filed by Kilia Drew against Eugene Drew. Margaret Cameron to wed Robert Elmo Pierce after surprise engagement. A baseball accident injures 12 year old Roger Hay.
In Wilisma county Horse thieves have caused alarm for two months. A team was stolen from Samus Himes, five miles southeast of Bryan, seen east of the city and traced to Wauseon. The outfit was found hitched in town, the wagon loaded with wheat and sold at a local warehouse.
Labor Day afternoon at Defiance Gun Club guests from Hicksville led the scoring after breaking blue rocks on the club grounds east of Diamond Glass Co. Most top scores came from Hicksville participants Drs Greer and Morgan Mesers Sen senbacker Bricker and Mans field joined by Knoop from Ayereville others were from Defiance. The complete score follows.
The 30th annual meeting of old settlers will be at the Hicksville fair grounds on Wednesday September 13. Judge Killitts of Bryan will deliver an address at 2 pm. E. O. Stone, Secretary.
Fifty years after their marriage near Cleveland Jas Craine and Elizabeth A Clague marked their golden wedding at their Clinton street home with 75 guests. The couple, now in good health, were joined by family and friends from Defiance and nearby towns for a noon dinner and brief speeches by Rev Roberts and others. Their son J J Craine resides in Tiffin township while daughters and other relatives attended from Cleveland Berea Galva Evansport and Toledo among others.
Surveying corps nears Lima to Columbus direct service by month’s end, aiming for spring link to Jefferson and Columbus. Rumors tie C L M to C H D pact, with B&O potential absorption via Pennsylvanian routes. Also, Defiance Baptist Sunday School adopts resolutions mourning Mrs Elizabeth Jordan and thanking God for her service.
The Express offers a special campaign rate with a weekly issue sent from now until after the election for 20 cents. Readers are urged to place orders whether or not they plan to take the paper.
The third annual reunion of Company EF of the 111th OV1 met in the UV Hall with 35 living of the original 107. A social morning followed by a noon dinner served by wives. Officers elected: President Peter Dickman, Secretary C W Brown, Treasurer Geo A Wood. Attendees included M D Moog Ney Geo A Woods Defiance C W Brown Evansport James Beall Andrew Sproull Defiance Route 8 George Andrews Drusilla A Nicely Defiance Route 9 Henry Van Vlerah Defiance Albert Lovejoy Bryan P Dickman Henry Marihugh Defiance. Guests and wives included Henry Beall Mrs M D Moog Goldie Moog Ney Mrs Delana Sproull Cynthia W Woods Mrs Ervin Hayes Mrs Hannah Brown Mrs Sarah Beall Mrs Rosa Hardesty.
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