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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1938
Page
5
Local notes report calls for correspondence from Clermont County residents and social items from Marathon Williamsburg and nearby areas. Birthday dinners honor mothers and wives. guests from Covington Madisonville and Norwood gather. Easter church events, visits, illnesses, and family news are noted along with church activities and social clubs.
Community notes from Summerside Mt Carmel include Mt Carmel Grange literacy program and Easter party on April 16, Summerside Ladies Aid bake sale at Mt Carmel Presbyterian Church, and religious services at Summerside M E Church with Sunday School night and cantata plan. Numerous social updates and marriages.
Batavia United Brethren Church held a Sunday ceremony confirming 82 young people, the largest class in church history, led by Rev. Everett L. Smith. Names include Marion Marie, Carol W., Kenneth P. Anstaett, and many others. The service featured appropriate music as the church, recently redecorated, gained a new Hammond organ.
The Fidelis Class of Perintown M E Church hosts an 8 PM entertainment and social at the school hall with Hubert Crockett as master of ceremonies and door prizes. The Mothers Peachers Club plans a Thursday 2 PM meeting at the school hall. Admission 25 and 10 cents includes refreshments.
Mrs P M Offutt and Mrs Katherine Witt visit Cincinnati relatives for Holy Week. Norwood residents Kaelin and Weaver family members visit. Witt family hosts Hyde Park gathering. Teegarden move into Mrs Witt’s home. Amelia Woman's Club hosted by Mrs J R Carlisle. Easter guests include Mrs Hunnicutt and daughter from Texas. Drake and Huling families visit Norwood. Anna Jones visits Bethel. Hennersons move to Mrs Adams house. Cosletts and families attend events. Cantata to be sung at Christian Chapel Easter program. Edwards and wife and Mrs Cain improving after illness.
A Mt. Holly bride Lea May Davis married Frank G Bover Hoffen of Tabasco in a Sunday ceremony at Bantam Presbyterian Church with Rev Zimmer man officiating. Also noted were a Bible Class meeting, social gatherings, and local readings of Holy Week services as the community marked events and a fatal garage fire.
Amelia Mrs Nellie Mattox and Sunday Players will present a Biblical drama at the Amelia M E Church Easter Sunday at 7 30 sponsored by Epworth League. Everyone welcome. Also notes on club meetings, births, deaths and school events in town.
The text argues puritanism fights human nature and is unpleasant. It notes the beetle's remarkable strength, stating it can carry 850 times its own weight despite its small size.
Prominent Cincinnatian Robert A Taft continues a Taft line of civic service and politics tracing back to Alphonso Taft and William Howard Taft. The article notes the Taft family’s long legacy in public life and Robert Taft’s pursuit of the Republican nomination for United States senator from Ohio.
By unanimous vote the Williams burg Board of Education renewed the contract of J W Prewitt, the Williamsburg school head, for three years. He has served seven years in the position. The board also approved a WPA project to fill 1700 yards of earth in the Williamsburg School ground, to be done with other WPA projects in Clermont County schools under F B Hoggatt.
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