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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1918
Page
8
Batavia residents visit relatives in Cincinnati and Florida travels noted. Mail subscriptions to various papers listed. Local births, marriages, and military moves reported. School opening chatter and a currency sale ad appear. Hog-killing season brings record pork yields and profits at Batavia.
Fragmentary notices announce oyster sales at Batavia Fruit Store and upcoming deliveries of cottonseed meal and middlings. Local attorney Nor man L. Burnet and Woodlief Law Belding are mentioned, with mentions of mortgage financing options up to 3000 dollars and farm feed supplies from Williamsburg Feed Mills.
P A Wickerham of Five Mile Brown county receives call for Y M C A overseas work. Auction starts at 10 a m offering personal property stock feed implements. Farm of 108 acres to be offered if not sold earlier. Farm described as desirable and money maker. Remember the date.
The Red Cross calls for a week long Christmas Roll Call starting December 16 in Clermont County towns. Members receive a 1919 official button a service flag and ten Christmas seals. extra crosses and a household insignia are provided. The drive urges Universal Membership to aid Europe’s devastation and help return homecoming soldiers. Only one dollar joins. see your township Red Cross HQ before December 23.
J Walter Moore of Milford, an engineer with the State Highway Department, resigned yesterday citing complications from repeated changes to the Ohio pike reconstruction plans. He had been engaged as a consulting engineer at Anchor.
Several farm parcels are noted with transfers from farms in Wiggonsville Bethel Newtown Lindale and Newtonville Ohio to buyers in Sardinia Wilmington Louisville and West Virginia. Prices range from 1500 to 34000 with buyers including I W Brown Frank Spohn Lon Hammons and Mr Smith. An advertising line promotes farm listings and a bid to place properties with the listing service.
Obituary notices recall Hubert L. Ferris born Newport Kentucky October 81 1805 in service as Camp Sherman motor dispatch bearer until his death after a November 18 accident. Also Thaddeus C. Turner born Mt Sterling Kentucky November 12 1844 died November 14 1918 leaving widow Martha Johnson five children and many grandchildren.
Ohio ranked among the top states in wartime contributions with 260000 men in military service, 991000000 dollars in Liberty bonds, 100000000 in war savings stamps, and 30000000 in war charities. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker from Columbus is credited with 24 enemy planes downed. Sixty thousand Ohioans fought in France, another 40000 in France and Italy, plus 35000 under arms at Camp Sherman.
Advertising officials Sam Leavick of the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune and Mayor Burnet visited Batavia to garner support for the War Trophies Exposition to be held in Cincinnati December 14–22. They met local business leaders, arranged ticket sales, and promoted the government exhibit run by a local city organization.
The text explains two methods to remove tattoos: acid dissolution which damages skin and can scar, or cutting away the tattooed skin and grafting in skin from another body area.
We express sincere thanks to relatives neighbors and friends for kindness shown during the loss of our mother and grandmother Mrs Dorothy M Maser Special thanks to Rev B F Wegner for consecration Mrs Katherine Guenther for kindness Messrs Ansteatt and Schobert for hymns and Dr H B Moore for conducting the funeral Mrs O P Kramer and family
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