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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1939
Page
8
The Clermont Courier lists subscription options published every Wednesday with annual and short term rates. The notice shows combined offers with the Courier paired with Cincinnati Post Times-Star and Enquirer and other papers.
Regular meeting items for Batavia Eastern Star and Batavia Woman's Club announce meetings and initiation. Social notes report visits by Mrs Grace Kain and family, Mrs Carolyn Scott Bruce Brock, and Mrs Glovina Harte with local families. A burglary alarm at Glancy store triggered a false report. Paramout Cafe owner Joe Stevens dies in Bethesda hospital at 71. Annabelle Flora suffers stroke in Sanford Florida. S. L. Larkin and family visit Huntington, W Va for New Year.
A Grange Officers Conference will be held in the conference room of the courthouse on Monday evening January 9 at 8 pm. All granges are urged to send representatives, announced by W. N. Wolf, county deputy.
Ralph Wajoewsky an expert accountant is appointed village clerk to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Max Moore. The appointment was made by Mayor Wiseman on Tuesday.
Public building operations halted after Saturday noon and Monday for New Years as court and municipal offices suspended activities.
The Eagle dance at the armory drew a large crowd last week with lively participation and attendees reporting a good time and spirited atmosphere.
The notice lists U B Church with minister Walter J Bauer and C R Spangler and Franklin D Morrison as superintendents. Revival begins January 15 with Rev L M Hohn visiting January 16. Weekly services and Sunday schools set, plus a Wilmington District mid year institute in Milford MB Church and a note on the Motto of the French Republic from 1789.
The new Board with Manly Hill as president Blythe Jones as clerk and Ernest Ruffner Geo Caldwell and Chas Curry appointed to roles. Board plans new appropriations resuming Wednesday. County Agent Roy Battles warns the common cold or roup hits farmers and poultry, outlining symptoms causes and treatment including warm baths disinfectants and better ventilation with an available bulletin at the County Agent's Office.
Daniel Lunsford, 68, of Chile is in serious condition at home after a Saturday auto accident. He was struck along Route 52 in the west end of Chile by a car driven by William Fannin of Bethel, suffering a broken leg and other injuries.
The Clermont County Farm Bureau launches a three day membership drive on January 3 4 and 5 led by President Herman Fagle y. Farmers in every township will ask neighbors to join for 1939. In 1938 the bureau counted 258 member families.
George Hanlon, 43, former vice mayor under H Homer Hannah, was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Hansnah after a Hamersville council meeting. He is married with two children and will serve until January 1940. Hannah, elected State Representative from Brown County in 1938, assumes new duties next month.
Miss Louise B Phillips and Misses Henrietta and Gertrude Dall hosted 230 Madisonville Children’s Home attendees at the Lyric Theatre New Year’s Day. Buses carried the children and each received candy after the show. The annual charity event has continued since 1930. Mrs Sperry of Glen Este is Miss Phillips’ mother.
Norfolk and Western Employees Relief Fund paid $164 023.25 in benefits to members and families in Q3 1938. Receipts totaled $202 503.39, fund balance stood at $3 645 152.35, and net gain for the year ended Sept 30 1938 was $168 731.39. Since 1917 the fund has paid $11 667 423.15 in benefits. total department cost to the railroad is $2 540 516.87.
Burley growers with excess tobacco may transfer up to 500 pounds to peers with surplus quota or receive up to 10 percent of a larger quota. Transfers must be signed by both donor and recipient at the Conservation Office in Batavia or at marketing warehouses. Transfers risk future quota effects and must not cross county lines or Kentucky. Growers with excess quotas are urged to report to Batavia for equitable transfers.
The article discusses the practice of firing three volleys over a veteran's grave, tracing it to Roman rites that cast earth on the coffin and called the departed by name thrice. It explains the ritual’s implied farewell and respectful salutation to the deceased.
A fragmented note describes raindrop speed as they fall to Earth. It suggests large rain drops fall 15 to 25 feet per unit and several feet per second, with estimates of fall rate around 5 feet per second.
The Bethel fire department plans a ball at Bethel School Auditorium on Thursday evening January 12 from eight to twelve to raise 85 for volunteer firefighters insurance. The department seeks community support since the village treasury cannot cover the cost. Firemen risk their lives and work for free, so funding is needed for workers compensation protection.
Sherman DeCalb Crouch also known as Calb Crouch, 74, farmer 112 miles south of Bethel, died Tuesday evening from a brain clot at his farm. Survived by Emma his wife, two sons Raymond and Sherman, and five daughters Maldred Annabelle Ada Gail Louise. Funeral at Kennedy Funeral Home Friday at 8 pm with an Oddfellows service Thursday at 8 pm. Interment Bethel cemetery.
Funeral services for 63 year old Mrs. Marida Catherine Faddis were conducted at the Felicity M E Church. She died at the home of her son Dewey Faddis in Richmond Indiana while visiting for the holidays. Surviving are Monroe Faddis her husband a daughter Mrs Vera Farnbach of Cincinnati and two sons Dewey of Richmond Indiana and Ernest of Chile.
The king’s swans on the Thames are annually rounded up and branded on their beaks in a ceremony called swan upping. The practice dates to when young swans were royal delicacies and kept only with a crown license, each keeper bearing a swan mark. Swans tend to nest in the same spots yearly unless disrupted or food runs short.
The Marsh type harvester introduced an automatic binder in 1870. It was the Locke machine, the first to form, compress, and tie bundles automatically.
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