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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1932
Page
8
A collage of short items from Clermont County news: tax shortfalls, visits, family gatherings, club meetings, a Grange event in Owensville, a Batavia garden club, and local incidents. Mentions of D. K. McDonald vacation plans, births and illnesses, a school certificates update, and community notices including a vaudeville show and a grange gathering.
Senator L. J. Dickinson opening reelection bid criticizes Democratic promises as demagogic appeals. He argues national unity is needed to win the war economy and cites Roosevelt's New York governorship to question federal finances. He notes Democratic calls to cut offices and merge agencies.
Clermont County Pomona Grange met at Felicity on July 30 1982 with 220 in attendance. The day included 86 new candidates, a Grange Declamation Contest winner Roy Maddox, and a mock wedding performance by Juvenile Grange. The program also featured music and a circus act by Marathon Grange children.
The medical superintendent of a major hospital recommends cold tea as initial treatment for burns. He notes old greasy remedies complicate wound cleaning and delay proper care.
Laurel Community Church youth present a four act play The Empty House next Friday August 5 at 8 00 p m in the Bethel School Auditorium. The program runs about two hours and fifteen minutes with admission details to follow.
The Batavia Band performed last Thursday night in the town hall despite rain, delivering fine music to a sizable audience. Another concert is planned for next Thursday at Town Hall Park with public invitation and weather permitting.
A Thursday night storm hit the Taphorn home near Olive Branch as a lightning strike set a large barn on fire. The barn and its hay, grain, and farm implements were lost, though no livestock burned. The fire was partly insured.
Water from two new Bethel Water Works wells passed chemical and bacteriological tests. The report notes low chemical impurities and no softening treatment needed. Bacterial counts will be monitored statewide to guard against typhoid. local siting of wells will follow the satisfactory analysis.
Joseph Carey offers a public sale at his home on Big Dry Run one mile west of Mt. Carmel and an eighth mile from Route 74 on Saturday August 18 at 1 pm. Auction includes dining room suite with six chairs table sideboard solid cherry antique fine rose finish and other furniture stoves cooking utensils ladders and painter’s scaffold. Terms are cash. Auctioneer A M Ellis and clerk Henry Andrews.
A state representative aided by Deputy Game Warden Stagg and others removed undersirable fish from East Fork in Clermont County over the past week. Caught were gars, suckers, skipjacks, and small catfish, with some catfish above 20 pounds removed. Rumor mentions a very large master catfish in McAfee Hole below town, but none captured. The effort is expected to continue for three months with new fish returns after each rise in the creek.
Burglars entered A C Nash drug store in Batavia by cutting the back door panel and removing the locking bar. They sought narcotics but Nash had moved them, and they left with $15.80 after also taking tobacco stock previously. No clues yet. Sheriff Roberta investigated.
The Churches report励 M E Church led by Rev L L Cherrington lists Sunday school at 9 30 and morning service at 10 80 with a sermon by the pastor Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 and a Wednesday guild. United Brethren in Christ notes a successful annual picnic with net receipts over 70 and a closing conference year with rising funds and ongoing offerings. First Christian church invites O N Winkle to speak at 10 30 morning worship with a sermon by the pastor and a men’s Bible class. Lytle’s foreign field talk last Sunday evening was well received and Brother Herman Otto speaks Sunday at 8 p m.
A county notice lists new telephone service installations in Batavia Bethel Loveland New Richmond Newtonsville Milford and Iron corrugated culverts and general hardware from Wilke Coal and Supply Co Batavia. Advertisements show rental details sales trades and farm listings with contact references in Batavia Ohio.
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