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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1940
Page
8
A poetic fragment evokes dusk turning to day with a metal dawn at sea. The speaker urges awakening and onward motion, noting the body resting yet blood roaming and breath alert. The mood contrasts quiet clay with active life, ending with a call to rise.
Social items recall visits and gatherings around Batavia with local families, officers, and clubs. Read of Bridge Club entertainments, travels to Cincinnati and Leesburg, hospital recoveries, and upcoming lodge and Grange events including April activities and hosting duties.
Portsmouth Ohio candidate Alan N Jordan executive secretary of the Ohio Valley Conservation and Flood Control Congress announces his bid on the Republican ticket for Congress. He is a longtime Washington resident, former hotel and dairy proprietor, and a noted authority on flood control and conservation with extensive connections in Congress.
The Republican Committee argues against the view that farms are overbuilt and production should shrink. It cites Brookings findings that to meet a fair standard of living, production would need to nearly double 1929 output. It frames government action as necessary to spur demand and full employment, linking farm labor and business programs to healthy expansion and warns against privileged scrambles.
Reverend Lawrence Hall of St. Paul Episcopal Church Cincinnati leads the Church Foundation of the Diocese of Southern Ohio to purchase C. L. V. Wishard’s 70 acre farm near Batavia. The property includes a four room cottage, barn, woodland, and a stream on the Afton Elklick pike three miles east of Route 74, sale handled by L. C. Hopkins Realty Company.
Mrs Earl Binning to host Athena Class meeting this Friday evening. Belle Fallon returns home after winter with her children. Grayce Honaker serves as census enumerator for southern Batavia township starting Monday. Mr and Mrs C Klausing were Sunday guests of her brother in Erlanger Kentucky. Uncle Joe Dawson visited.
Public sale lists 500 chick brooder six camp cots various farm implements and a 19386 Dodge truck with cattle rack. Also 9 yearling heifers two yearling bulls two springers six milk cows with calves 29 shoats one 1000lb horse. Auction Saturday April 13 at noon. A. M. Ellis, auctioneer.
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