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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1952
Page
6
The Clermont Courier lists editor Jerry Hamilton and staff members Patricia Wilson, Jeanor Bolender, Connie Oldham, Thomas Fortney, and Jerald Fortney in a byline style notice.
The Clermont Courier notes the life of Mrs Mary F Needham wife of Dr T W Needham and mother of J Frank Needham. She praised community life and nature authoring Rural articles for Ohio Farmer and editorials for the Courier. A longtime guide to the Girls Friendship Circle of Marathon she served Linden Chapter 348 CES as Worthy Matron for forty years. She created Marginal Meanderings and Country Cousin and died this month leaving memories among Fourth Estate friends and Clermont forests.
The piece notes state debts totaling nearly two hundred million dollars, led by Pennsylvania at fifty million and towns at ninety five thousand. It reports a Greenfield Ohio Republican convention nominating Charles Q. Hildebrant with harmony, and details Batavia church dedication plans and historical notes on local church founding through 1876.
A reader thanks the editor for past letters and requests publishing a pledge from all candidates. The writer seeks a promise covering from minor candidates to national government, urging a uniform commitment. The note references the Courier issue of April 3.
A mosaic of Clermont County items lists deaths and burials in 1809 and 1868, early town plats and memorials, the birth of Grant at Point Pleasant, and a 1898 political pledge from a candidate, with scattered patriotic and personal notes.
A devotional reading highlights a Psalm and reflects on themes of awe, gratitude, and guidance. The passage invites contemplation of faith, mercy, and daily trust in God, inspiring personal reflection and spiritual practice.
The sermon argues Jesus did not abolish the Ten Commandments but reveals deeper meaning. It warns modern idols like money and public opinion, and cautions against worship of self, wealth, or the crowd, urging loyalty to God through Christ.
Lizzie Ward of New Richmond was misidentified by readers in the Clermont Album contest. The prize rises to four dollars for the best 200 word description with accurate facts about the subject, due by the Monday after publication. Winners limited to one prize. past winners since December 6, 1951 are ineligible for new prizes.
The item lists contributor details and prints a wartime poem about a South Korean GI and a child, reflecting on brotherhood and loss. The piece includes names and addresses for submissions and a Cincinnati Enquirer attribution, then shifts to a poem about fading beauty and memory.
A short lament from Cincinnati by Grace Schiele Waer lamenting life’s swift passage and longing to hold spring flowers while acknowledging life’s end foretold in its early hour.
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