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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1949
Page
9
A feature explains building and managing a home compost pile with layered materials, moisture, and soil caps. It covers inputs from kitchen scraps to sewage sludge, handling odors, turning every two months, and using final screened compost as soil conditioner.
The Middletown Journal reports readers can enter the Queen of Leisure on Washday contest sponsored by the Middletown Gas and Electric Service. Neighborhood appliance dealers offer demonstrations of modern laundry gear, while national women's magazines provide ideas on using leisure time. Entries are 25 words or fewer and can be submitted on entry blanks from dealers. The winner plus a friend visit downtown Cincinnati on June 15 for a gala day and a chance at a major laundry appliance prize, as trained home economists handle the family wash for a week in the interim.
The unknown heirs of Emma Doell must answer the May 23 1949 petition filed in Common Pleas Court Butler County Ohio in Case 63764 by Carl Haller and Gertrude Haller seeking quieting of title to Lot 47 75 feet and Lot 46 15 feet in Trenton Village. If no answer is filed by July 7 1949 judgment by default will be entered.
War Assets Administrator Jess Larson announced the Sharonville Ohio engineer depot is being reoffered for sale after Distillers International Trading Corp failed to meet purchase conditions. Bids are due by 2 pm EDT May 31.
A Cincinnati landlord, Elmer Herrin of Norwood, was fined $200 for violating a zoning ordinance by permitting eight families totaling 27 people to live in a three story house. The penalty was handed down yesterday.
A local contest invites entries showing the best use of modern home lawn equipment. An impartial committee of Judges will select the winner. All entries must be postmarked no later than midnight June 4, closing date of the contest.
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