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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1948
Page
6
Poetic pieces describe summer gardens with blooms and bees, and a playful vignette about Timothy Thomas waking early to pick oranges from a tree, discovering the fruit grows on trees, not in a crate. The passages mix household magazine verse with light humor and imagery.
The Clermont Courier, published weekly by the Clermont Publishing Company in Batavia Ohio, lists subscription rates of 1.00 for six months and 2.00 per year. Jerald B Forney is identified as editor and publisher with the paper entered as second class matter at Batavia post office.
A notice from August 18 1848 reports the marriage of Edward Harris to Mary Haywood in Gosh en township and Mrs Mary Ely widow of Benjamin Ely in Bantam. It also notes a Batavia meeting August 24 to ratify Van Buren Adams nomination and to nominate Seventh District delegates for a Free Soil candidate.
Fifty years ago at Stony Point near Georgetown Ohio Charley Pangburn fell from a boat while loading stone and, unable to swim, drifted downstream. Companions failed to save him and body recovery began unsuccessfully until Thursday when a shirt once worn by the deceased aided the search.
An article recounts a man throwing a shirt into a river and his drowning body being recovered with the shirt. It notes the shirt sank after 100 feet and grappling hooks retrieved both, then compares the event to Salem witchcraft and attributes the outcome to animal magnetism rather than magic.
Felicity and vicinity prepare a three day chautauqua on August 25, 27 and 28 promising pleasure for all ages. Batavia Legion boys visited New Richmond Tuesday night and attended the ceremony conferring the Forty-Second Degree on several candidates in contemporary style.
The regular monthly meeting at Lindale Baptist Church on August 9 featured a covered dish luncheon at noon. Mrs Allen and Mrs Eads hosted. One member attended. A demonstration on dress patterns was presented.
New Richmond residents entertain and visit across Ohio and Kentucky. Albert Plotner and Claude Plotner family move into Ohio Street apartment. Guests include Elizabeth Altman of Cincinnati and Sam Altman family. Dayton visitors H Sprague and Lula Taylor call on Emma Carey. Emery Hamilton remains hospitalized in Cincinnati. Laura Dean hosts Harry Hatch of Hartford Connecticut. Mrs. Guy Suthland and Kit Bolender head to New York after local visit. John McCall and daughter from Montgomery West Virginia stay with Edith Friedman. Helen West visits Columbus. Jennie Reese hosts guests including Suthland and Bolender to celebrate Mrs. Lew White’s birthday at Plaza Hotel. Gay Fleshman visits Paintsville Kentucky. Edith Friedman hosts Carol Ewler of Cincinnati. Donna Fleshman attends Bible School in Moscow.
A 1948 religious meditation on Tabitha Dorcas from Joppa, praising her charity through hand sewn coats and garments for widows. The piece argues that humble, practical works embody true faith, more than famous preachers or grand missions, and urges ordinary believers to imitate Tabitha’s service.
The author argues the United States and Russia influence workers across Europe and Asia. U S money could rebuild industries and democracy, while a united Europe would resist Russian western aggression and uplift peasant and worker life. Asian farmers seek dignity and better living through U S assistance.
A brief note contemplates Communist collapse even in Russia. It weighs funding needs, suggesting large sums but claiming they would be smaller than those of a third world war. The author signs as G
The W S C S will meet Thursday August 24 at the home of Mrs. Ben der with hostess duties arranged. Mrs. James Morrison and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank McGuire on the prior Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Smythe and Mrs. Bishop hosted a Mt Washington picnic for H B Smythe and daughter, Ed Huey, Richard Coller, Carlyn Flaugher and families. Carter Combs also entertained guests last Sunday.
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