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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1933
Page
5
Rev and Mrs Stetzel were Sunday evening supper guests of Herbert McCormick and family. The monthly S S social will be Tuesday evening Dec 26 at the parsonage in Owensville. All welcome. This will be a Christmas party. Mrs Chas Seward is convalescing slowly.
The report lists residents and guests visiting relatives for Christmas across Lin Dale White Whitesville Indianapolis Williamsburg Hyde Park and New Castle Indiana. Families hosting include the Butlers the Corletts the Adamses the Days the Witts the Campbells and others with one illness note for Olen Day.
Mrs. C L Page hosted Jolly Sewing Club on Thursday afternoon and Gladys Wolf led the S S Class Thursday night. Numerous families from Bethel and nearby towns, including Montgomery West Virginia and Cincinnati, spent Christmas and holidays with relatives, with many local dinners, visits, and travelers shown. The village also notes upcoming Playtime Theater and a film schedule for New Year’s period.
Mr and Mrs Perry Groves visited his sister in Lebanon while Lonnie Weaver remains ill. Edna Philhour from Cincinnati stayed with cousin Mrs Rudolph who is ailing. Rev and Mrs Stitzel welcomed their son. John Gerard and W J Snider hosted Christmas dinner with family. Val Anstead hosted children and grandchildren. Armstrongs spent Christmas with daughters in Cincinnati. Harold Snider spent Christmas with sister in Batavia. Emma Steward returns home from Mt Healthy. John Craver hosted Addie and Elmer McCormick and descendants from Cincinnati Bethel. Ed Stewart and Mrs Sarah Taylor also noted.
The record lists multiple holiday visits: a woman and her brother with family at Mason. George Gauche and family with George Craver and family at Galley Hill. Miss Rebecca Marsh returning from Torrente Schools to be with Will Rosselot and his mother. Mrs. Tucker visiting her daughter in Dayton.
Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Wheatley marked their quarter century with two gatherings last week a Thursday surprise event and a Sunday basket dinner at their home. Attendees included neighbors friends and relatives listed by name along with multiple Wheatley family members. A statewide drive backs John A. Elden of Cleveland for 1984 Republican governor nomination with about a hundred Elden clubs active statewide.
The Ripley tobacco market moves slowly due to unfavorable weather hindering handling. Very little tobacco has been stripped and some farmers delivered under 109 pounds for the first sales. Roy Wilson of Stout was Union's first customer with 200 pounds as Clermont-area farmers process their crop at a reduced pace.
Seaman Ohio resident W F Howland exhibited a record large White Leghorn pullet egg weighing 5g ounces. The egg measured 744 inches in circumference and around the ends 8% inches and was described as perfectly formed resembling a medium goose egg.
About 50 producers met at the courthouse to protest milk hauling rates. Charles Zagar agreed to haul sweet milk for 26¢ per hundred pounds and sour milk at 20¢ on return, with Henry A Hodges elected chairman and Mr Baugh secretary.
Richard Stevens, 28, manager of Kennedy Funeral Home, was killed when his car on Forestville crossed a Cincinnati and Georgetown Traction line and collided with a train of flat cars. The auto was demolished. Stevens was en route to Cincinnati to visit his mother, Mrs Lola Stevens.
New Richmond wins a fourth straight game by beating Bethel 32 to 25 as George Davis scores five in the final half and Rosemire adds key baskets after a 16 15 halftime edge. Bethel’s Shebesta leads scoring with 17. Lions meet Williamsburg next Friday at home.
A collage of curiosities notes Alexander the Great misjudging the Indus River, atmosphere thinning with altitude, and wasps burying prey for offspring. It covers topics from nutrition and debt amortization to Pluto, fire places, race terminology, and animal sleep habits.
William Faul of Cincinnati hunted in Highland County and bagged two quail. He resisted a game warden, was arrested, fined 25 dollars per bird plus 100 dollars for resisting an officer, totaling 150 dollars. Stone and W R Smith were fined ten dollars each for trespassing.
A 12 ton granite monolith marks the site of the mill where the first wheat shipment from western Canada was assembled in Winnipeg. The stone, inscribed for the occasion, recalls the October 21, 1878 departure. Jud Tunkins notes some churchgoers seek a better world but spend six days a week making this one unsatisfactory.
Ohio State University repeated last year’s feat by winning first honors at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago on December 1, following a Kansas City triumph. Prof. Don J. Kays praised the team as mighty fine. Team members included Karl Obrecht, Curtis Steele, Doris Moyer, Raymond Pifer, Ferrell Shultz, George Young, with Moyer leading in sheep and Shultz top in swine. Nineteen college teams from the United States and Canada competed.
The second semester Wilmington Extension Class for Clermont county teachers will meet for the first time Wednesday evening January 10 1934 at Batavia High School Building at 7 30 PM.
A run down nervous system is described as ruinous to careers homes and businesses. The notice urges immediate treatment with Magna Compound and promises no upfront payment, asking readers to send no money and pay on delivery.
Classified notice from Magna Mfg Co Chicago Illinois offering Magna Compound for nervous system relief. Requests a 30 day supply with payment of two dollars plus postage upon receipt. States pay postage if cash with order, and notes Canada foreign orders require cash in advance.
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