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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1939
Page
5
Personal items from all parts of Clermont County list visits and guests. Many residents visit relatives. The Clermont County Fair is in full swing and draws visitors. Several local residents attend picnics and trips, with updates on illnesses injuries and recoveries.
Newtonsville residents visit relatives in Maysville Kentucky and Lakeland Florida. Couples host relatives from Norwood Milford Batavia Mt Washington and Cincinnati as plans unfold to visit Los Angeles the World's Fair Black Hills Yellowstone Crater Lake Big Trees Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park. A 54 member gathering marked Mrs. Albert Swartz's birthday.
The Mt Holly report notes a successful Young Peoples Conference with a strong attendance and a Sunday program led by Daytona youth. The choir performed a well received concert Sunday evening for an appreciative audience. Nearby travels include a trip to Mt Clifty Indiana and visits from several family and friends.
Sunday guests included Mr. and Mrs. Lester Taylor and family with Mrs. M. F. Hargitt. Candice Adams entertained relatives from Kentucky. Longhauser anniversary celebrations at Mt Washington. Anna Jones hosted Cincinnati and Mt. Washington kin. Hamlet horseshoe team dinner hosted by Omar Loudenback. Flower Show date noted for Amelia. Jack Smith taking vocal lessons in Cincinnati. Girl Scouts headed to Owensville fair. Fred Warren’s fruit market trip with C. M. Edwards. Edwards stayed with Mrs. Warren during the trip. Billy Pommert and Keith Williams plan to visit the New York World's Fair.
Community social life includes Georgetown youngster visiting grandparents in Kentucky, Cincinnati and Cleveland visitors in Paeltz and Swing households, trips to Smoky Mountains, Michigan and New York World's Fair, and multiple local dinners and hostings among families such as the Taylors, Webbs, Becks, Kellums, and others.
Burg spends week with mother Hin and Dr H M Wymer along with wife Jean and Mr and Mrs Loyd Harlow and sons Justin and Jerry during a two week trip in Michigan.
The piece lists newly elected officers for Belfast Sunday School led by Supt Harley Price and notes a series of weekend visits and gatherings. Families from East Maline Illinois to Hyde Park and Newtonsville attend dinners, birthdays, and a soapbox derby, with Mildred Ann McCormick and Marion Lois among hostesses and attendees.
Advertisement offers Regular and Special Agents roles with potential income and political action. Claims leadership lineage from Scotch Royal Stuarts and cites a 28 year old pen name Phillip Campbell Argyle-Stuart. Requests birth data and $0.20 for printing and postage. Also notes upcoming public hearing on the Clermont Ohio tax budget for Washington township.
Traditional Polish peasant customs during Christmas and holidays feature long lasting costumes and folklore. After harvest, tenants present landowners with baskets flowers and corn as dances are performed in the landowner’s presence. The Cascade tunnel near Seattle stands as the longest railroad tunnel in the United States at 7.79 miles.
Notice from Goshen Township Trustees inviting sealed bids by August 31 1939 for painting the Goshen Town Hall including labor and materials. Specifications from the clerk, bids subject to rejection of any or all, by order of the trustees with Ivan Motsinger as Clerk.
The Ohio Hybrid Seed Corn Producers Association doubles its production capacity with a new two story concrete building housing a vermin and fire proof seed storage vault for inbred seed. The vault features a six inch ceiling and cement block walls with Trinidad asphalt. W N Woods of Maumee and J E Van Fossen Croton inspect the vault as the group buys an adjacent storage building. The association oversees nurseries for inbred lines under Ohio State University breeders and provides single cross foundation seed to about 400 members for producing double cross Ohio Certified hybrid seed corn for Ohio farmers.
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