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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1946
Page
4
Batavia society notes recount dinners and visits among Ashburn, Keen, Moore, Sprague, and other families. Highlights include weddings and bon voyage parties for clergy, plus moves and journeys to California and Florida.
Mr and Mrs Joe Mager hosted guests including Mr and Mrs Albert Goderwis of Covington Kentucky and Mr and Mrs William Goderwis from Vermont. Mrs George Haas welcomed Mr and Mrs Herbert Lemon and family of Moscow. Several other visitors from Cincinnati Columbus Arkans as Kentucky and Bethel attended gatherings with the Hicks, Cox, Drake, Keen and Wastoff families. Carl William Fisher has returned home after months in service.
A July 25 1946 summer meeting of the Clermont County Council Executive Board of Parents and Teachers was hosted by Mrs J Opie Elliott. Attendees included officers and chairmen from local units and county officials. They discussed the Fall School of Instructions to be held October 16 1946 in Williamsburg Ohio with speakers of county wide interest. Refreshments were served and talks by guests Mrs Pragar and Mrs McKay were highlighted.
Ohio reports rising 4-H club activity as postwar improvements boost farm life. W. H. Palmer cites 51 224 projects in 81 of 88 counties on July 6, up from 41 854 in 1945, with enrollment nearing 55 000 individuals. He notes two key factors: freed time from wartime duties and continued youth involvement in 4-H projects under adult guidance. Buckeye state prepares to showcase skills at the State Fair for the first time since 1941.
Repairs finished on the Baptistry of Amelia Baptists Church. A number of folks will be baptized after the regular preaching service Sunday Aug. 4. At the morning service the pastor will speak on the subject Correct Christian Baptism. All candidates urged to attend.
Newtown residents appear in social calls and family visits across Ohio and beyond. Mrs. August Audrey sails to Sidney Australia to join her husband while Rev and Mrs A P Smith visit with Eugene McClare family. Geralds, Bowens, Speckers, and Proschs figure in hospital, trips, reunions, and local gatherings.
Carroll Recca, national chairman, smiles at plans to enlist first voters and veterans in the Young Republican Federation program. Ohio federation members Evermont Robinson, Phil Becker, Helen Dean, Ralph E. Becker, Edward Trepinski join him at a Washington meeting.
The Mt. Carmel Unit of the Clermont County Rangers held its annual picnic at the Charles Bell farm on State Route 74 Mt. Carmel on July 22. A large attendance enjoyed lunch prepared by the refreshment committee led by Henry Hill of Willowville. James Winnes is president and E B Kincaid the new secretary. Regular meetings are at Mt. Carmel School every three months with the next set for 8 pm the second Monday in September.
Mrs. Philip Sperry of Glen Este Ohio returns from a month with her daughter Miss Louise B Phillips in Washington and Canada. They crossed six feet of snow at Crater Lake on June 23 and toured Seattle Vancouver Lake Louise Jasper Park and Banff with wildlife and mountain drives. Phillips once worked for City Transit Bus Company and later Remington Arms before moving west.
Henry Depeu of Bethel serves jail time in Clermont County for a $50 fine plus costs after using improper auto tags on a 1937 Dodge sedan. The case, before Mayor A C Munden in Batavia, revealed the car was stolen from Fidelity Federal Building and Loan in Cincinnati on April 16, 1945. Depeu says he bought the car from an unknown man in Cincinnati last October for 50 dollars with 200 more to be paid upon title delivery. The license used was for a 1928 Ford, and an insurance company may later claim the vehicle since it had already paid the original owner.
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