06 Jan 1886
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1886
Page
1
An 1880s notice warns ministers and magistrates to file authenticated marriage certificates with the Probate Court within three months or face a fifty dollar fine plus costs and reprimand. The item lists numerous couples likely married, urging clergy to report and secure public records to avoid challenges to the unions.
On a Wednesday afternoon a carriage with George Apple and Deputy Pagewell carried the Misses Curtis to Mayor Norris to answer resist ing an officer Lloyd. The elder Miss C. pleaded style and beauty as reporters watched. The sisters waived examination and were bound over to Saturday. their brother Andy Curlis faced 30 days in the work house and costs.
A Clermont editor reacts to a Courier Christmas number with scorn and public ridicule. He resigns to madness after reading copied content and unattributed material. The piece accuses the Sun of imitating the Courier with plagiarized stories and cheap plates.
The Cincinnati Georgetown and Portsmouth railroad directors met at the Central Union depot to discuss property welfare. November net earnings were 12201 dollars. The line is improving to first class, with Georgetown entrance expected by the 10th. Batavia branch may follow to ease travel and avoid dangerous travel conditions. George H. Kolker, longtime Courier correspondent, is elected journal clerk by the Ohio Republican House. The paper criticizes management for suing small stockholders and harming the road. Uncle Ezekiel Glade and wife celebrate their forty fifth wedding anniversary with a surprise party from their children and grandchildren.
At the Democratic Senatorial caucus William R. Walker of Batavia and John F. Tracy of Zanesville were ousted for message clerk as Carlos Trevitt of Columbus won with fifteen votes. Walker also failed to secure enroll ing clerk against four others with James Grogan and I. T. Moore preferred. Lee Gorman of Marathon and Charles E. Addison of Muskingum faced elimination as party contest reshaped local power dynamics.
The Ohio Teachers Reading Circle expands with 78 members across Clermont County including Nicholsville Bethel Mt Carmel New Richmond Amelia Milford and Franklin district. Organizers report growing interest and urge officers and lists of presidents to be published in county papers.
A Clermont girl and John A. Gibson leaped from the Cincinnati and Covington bridge into the Ohio River last Monday at 7 PM, both drowning. Gibson had married a New Richmond heiress, then left, and the unknown Kentucky girl was his first sweetheart. Gibson’s wife is missing, thought to be near Twelve Mile Creek in Clermont. The incident echoes Romeo and Juliet, with Gibson said to have threatened suicide before the jump.
Causalty report notes the danger on the Cemetery and Eternity Railroad. An engine shaft broke soon after leaving Oak Street station, yet the engineer halted the train, preventing a potential disaster on a bridge or trestle. Passengers endured a rough shock before the journey continued with caution.
John Bunn, a patriarchal pioneer of Southern Ohio, died at his son Allen Bunn’s Sugar Tree Ridge home in Highland County on the eve of Christmas. Born in 184, he aided evangelicals, supported Jacksonian politics, hosted notable figures, and left a large, prominent family including sons in the Union army and a physician son, with Dr John Bunn traveling from Batavia to attend the funeral.
Thomas B. Hanners of Branch Hill, a carpenter and Democratic figure, has been missing since last Tuesday after a trip to Cincinnati. He is about fifty, tall and well dressed, carrying a wallet with around 900, and had recently filed for a marriage license to Miss Jennie Thompson. His disappearance alarms Miami township amid fears of foul play by gangs in Cincinnati. The sunward quip from Tris adds a cryptic note to the case.
Willing candidates for Congress man Campbell’s Third district include Durbin Ward John Patti son Michael Davis Judge McKenny James Neal and L G Gould. Clermont Democrats promote State Senator John G Myers a temperance man Allen Glancy leads Edenton Lodge I O C F. Six Stonelick Township residents ride Rush’s back to Olive Branch as C E I all steel line reaches doorsteps. Batavia Lodge I O C F plans a new lodge room in spring. M E church guild meets at Mrs Allen Glancys Main street today. Marriages announced: Leon Hobbs to Julia McGill both of Lewisburg Bracken county Kentucky. Also Carmel He Isaac Lanier from Cincinnati to Miss Ile A Rose of Mt Carmel. And Geo Cramer Jennie E Shumady Clermont County Ohio.
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