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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1923
Page
8
The column lists subscriptions to newspapers, social visits, travels, and community events. Read of sermons, conferences, fairs, and family visits including Miss Olga Janteb, Mrs. Homan, and the Glancys. A wedding unites Kenneth Davidson and Miss Efia Kepler in Tabasco with a reception in Batavia.
Loans at 5 percent. Farmer's Banking operates to benefit farm ore making loans at coal. Borrowers and government own stock. Profits cover running costs and dividends reduce interest below 6 percent. Apply to J A Hartman Secretary Cincinnati National Farm Loan First National Bank operating under government supervision. July 1870s.
The notice states that a land bank will provide local farm appraisal assistance without extra charges or commissions. Hatcher serves as secretary treasurer and Loveland, Ohio is mentioned with reference to loan services and county areas in Hamilton Warren Brown.
The notice urges Mass next Sunday at Holy Trinity Church at 9 40 and at Stone Lick at 8. Sermons discuss whether religious teaching surpasses secular education and invite parishioners, with Father Evers offering Christian Doctrine literature. Also reports on local happenings and people at fairs and events.
Batavia township schools will not open on September 8. A board meeting on September 1 at 2 p.m. will set the start date with all teachers urged to attend at the board's office. Batavia meets Cincinnati DeMolays in a home-and-away doubleheader with Simonton pitching morning and Anstaett in the afternoon. Admission is 20 cents.
Trustees of the Ohio Fruit Growers Association met in Columbus to finalize plans for cooperative marketing of Ohio fruit this year. Early reports indicate the program will handle roughly three times the volume managed through the same channels last season.
Brown county teachers institute met in session with full membership and extra attendees from Clermont. Julia Gos lin and Hazel Miller of Felicity joined, along with Vivian Leever of Owensville, expanding the crowd.
Two Louisville tobacco men visited Batavia to inspect the loose leaf warehouse seized at sheriff sale. They offered to buy or lease for years with option to purchase. Rental appealing. purchase would slightly favor the sellers. Owners expect tobacco use this fall. negotiations continue.
In Bethel and Amelia area last Thursday deputies chased chicken thieves targeting coops. A truck headed to Hast Fork of the Little Miami River was found with 82 stolen chickens inside driven by Jesse Johnson, accomplice Cal Cochran fled. Johnson bound over to Clermont county grand jury for petit larceny and jailed in Batavia until October trial.
A Tuesday night storm caused several fires across the county. The Batavia colored Baptist church lost its belfry and suffered minor damage due to a lightning strike. Geo. Weisman’s Nesbitt farm barn and feed were burned while he was away. Russell Jones’s Summerside barn burned with its contents. The event followed a hot dry spell and caused notable losses.
The author argues that tax exempt bonds drain capital from productive enterprise and shift the tax burden to those without bonds. He warns that universal pursuit of tax free income would reduce government revenue and raises concerns about funding public expenses and current tax rates.
Ohio shivered through an unusually cold August 28 with a 5 a.m. reading of 47.6 degrees, the coldest August 28 since 1888 when 47 degrees was recorded. The weather bureau forecasts continued mild days and no frost threats ahead.
The National Guard unit completed a two week outing at Camp Perry and returned home Friday in good shape. They made a strong record as usual and payments to troops were issued Thursday to everyone's satisfaction.
The article explains that timely spraying with Bordeaux mixture prevents celery blight from turning into a destructive soft rot during blanching. If not checked early, the disease can ruin an entire crop in days, making it unmarketable. Bordeaux mixture has proven effective in controlling the disease.
Farmers control the Hessian fly by delaying seeding to fly-free dates in fall. Egg-laying adults appear for a few days from September 20 to October 6 across the state. Thorough soil preparation and liberal fertilization boost yields when sowing aligns with the fly-free window.
Gus Stophiet will sell at his farm on the Williamsburg Batavia pike one half mile east of Afton on the Homer Maham farm beginning at 10 a m Wednesday Sept 6 1928. Items include 6 milk cows 2 heifers 1 gilt and 14 shoats 1 horse 2 mules many farm implements and some house goods Usual terms auctioneer A M Ellis clerk Lot Hulick The farm was sold by Hopkins Beeler Cincinnati.
The August 20 meeting listed payments to multiple contractors and suppliers for bridge and pike repairs, stamps, coal, and administrative costs. Notable items include Barret Bros. supplies, Gunderley repairs, and Pierces, with bonds filed, a county depository release, and resolutions funding tarvia road work at ten thousand dollars per mile for five miles beginning Felicity to the north, estimates due by September 1, 1928.
Joseph A Bivens born April 2 1860 in Fayetteville Ohio died August 21 1928 at age 68 leaving seven daughters one son thirteen grandchildren two brothers Americus and William of Florida and sisters Anne Ruecell Florida and Etta Dowell Terra Haute Ind. A devoted Methodist worker he cared for his invalid wife Mary Elizabeth Jordan since 1882 and his faith shines through his long service with the Brown Co farm bureau and Perry township. His funeral faith remains in the Bible verses In My Fathers House are Many Mansions and Come to me ye who are weary and heavy laden.
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