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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1928
Page
8
Community brief with visits by relatives and neighbors, rail of sales and services, church announcements, and oblique death notice. Includes travel plans of residents, Masonic and Circle events, and a pastor’s Florida death. Multiple residents named with towns Cincinnati Norwood Williamsburg and Batavia.
One hundred ninety vocational agriculture teachers gathered in Wooster July 30 to August 3 for their annual conference. They spent part of each day at the Agricultural Experiment Station, learning the latest farming insights and reviewing ongoing experiments.
The Clermont County common pleas clerk records 80 divorce filings from June 30 1927 to June 30 1928, split with 31 filed by husbands and 49 by wives. Husbands granted 17 divorces with 1 refused and 2 dismissed. wives granted 24 with 8 refused and 8 dismissed. Jury fees paid totaled $8739.80.
The Batavia Methodist Episcopal Church has completed a renovation. The exterior and interior received fresh paint, stenciled border, cleaned and varnished woodwork, and refinished floors. The project restores the old church to a refreshed, near new appearance.
Mrs James Brooks entertained her sewing club at her Eastwood home on August 8 with a quilting. Seven members attended and a noon chicken dinner was served by the hostess and her daughter. Guests were Mrs S Glancy and Mrs Houston Wilson and children.
Community notes describe Mrs. Will Gardner and guests celebrating a birthday at her Williamsburg home on August 8. Other entries mention visits by the Shinkles and Garbes, church services, farm help arrangements, a Bloom Rose Home Coming, and a drowning death of Rev. George, with editor and staff remaining on duty amid fair-going residents.
Three 16 year old boys Henry Pullman Percy Dusky and Harvey Moore were being held without bail in Latham Missouri on charges of intoxication and cemetery vandalism after tipping and breaking more than 40 tombstones. Indignation runs high in the small community as nearly every stone suffered damage. The incident recalls a similar cemetery stunt at Amelia where suspects were never identified.
Miss Vivian Leever spends two weeks visiting friends in Wooster Marion and surrounding areas. New York visitors Myrtle and Mary Kimmer visit relatives. D E Hill Lou Miller Wandine Spencer and baby stay with Alvin Hill. A C Iuen Glen dale visits Charles Legros Favret and family. Charles Earnest and Mt. Healthy family visit Emma Steward. Charles Taylor Ed Stewart tour Pt Pleasant to see Grant bridge. A P Buerkle and relatives host ae ave eer. Hourchute Hyde Park group with Celma Ansteadt. Butler and Hyde Park friends visit Rudolphs. Herald Waite and wife visit grandmother Malicia Waite.
The Frank W. Weaver Post of the American Legion outlined a Labor Day program for September 8 in Batavia. An all day event begins with a morning ball game and horseshoe pitching, followed by races, band concert, baseball game, a Town Hall show, and an Armory card party, aiming to be the biggest Labor Day yet and urging citizen cooperation.
Fragmentary OCR item lists Clarence N Young attorney at law Batavia Ohio with office and residence numbers and an unclear stray line mentioning a hound and Williamsburg context without clear action or date.
Severe storms and earthquakes left Rome's Colosseum and other structures in ruin. The damaged sites were exploited as quarries, supplying material for medieval palaces and other buildings, deepening the city’s impaired state since the sixth century.
The Ohio State Persian Club will sponsor a large cat show at the Ohio State Fair from August 27 to September 3. President Mrs H W Miller and show manager Mrs May Ackerman report entries close August 18. The event will feature Manx Siamese Australian Abyssinian and Persian cats with expectations of the state’s largest show yet.
The U B picnic at Owensville Fair Grounds last Saturday set attendance and interest records despite hot weather. A large dinner followed a day of enjoyable programs and a ball game saw the Sunday school defeat Batavia town team 8 to 4.
Wet conditions reach Clermont county while Bethel and Tate township face water shortages. Last Friday two downpours benefited some areas. Batavia and nearby communities report ample water and healthy crops.
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