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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1925
Page
8
Miss Cecile Hulick hosted New Year’s Eve gatherings while 500 onlookers attended a Thursday party. Paul M. Rapp advertises radios and a range line at Batavia stores as the town reports personal visits, family travel, and school notes across January 1925. Local officials note Harold Predmore becoming county prosecutor and James Roach’s minor stroke with recovery.
Roland G. Lewis of Batavia has accepted a traveling salesman post with the Peaslee-Gaulbert Company, paint manufacturers, covering Ohio. He brings thorough paint knowledge and is expected to perform well.
The hog raised by Austin Davidson in Brown County is described as the largest heaviest fatted porker likely in Ohio. A near four year old stag of pure blooded strain measured 9 feet tail to snout, 4 feet 4 inches high, and weighed over 1200 pounds at slaughter. Enormous hams and other parts were saved while the remainder became sausage meat and about 800 pounds of lard.
Through Congressman Kearns effort the ladies receive special pensions of 50 dollars monthly for Mrs. Lide Stacy and 30 dollars monthly for Mrs. Abe Chapman, starting December 28, 1924. The awards come via special pension legislation, acknowledgement of their worthiness.
Wylie W. Young declares caterpillars as a weather omen noting dark fronts on the larva signal cold early in the year while rear dark coloring foreshadows late winter cold. He says this pattern has held true during his years of observation, per the News-Democrat.
Milford Ohio January 7 A new basketball team the Milford Athletic Club has formed from village youths to provide entertainment at Riverside Park and nearby venues. The club joins the Spalding Inter City League with home games likely at Riverside Park on Saturday January 10 and weekly games across local gymnasiums or partner floors. About twenty games are planned for the season.
About one thousand Clermont County farmers gathered between Perintown Ancor and Mt. Carmel near Newtown on New Year’s Day to hunt foxes along the East Fork of the Little Miami River. Rainy weather kept the foxes away and the hunters returned by noon wet muddy and disappointed with no Reynard sighting.
Circuit Judge Richard C. Stoll issued temporary restraining orders in two cases by the Burley Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association against Jewell and New Independent Tobacco Warehouse Companies. The association seeks an injunction to stop interference with its members on auction floors as it polices for tobacco pledged to the association being dumped. The orders bar Jewell, Buckley, and their staff from obstructing the association workers inspecting grower lists on the floors. The suits accuse the defendants of aiding nonmember growers and violating the warehouse acts, with hearings set for January 9.
The Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation reports Ohio 1924 sweet corn pack at 787000 cases, 600000 fewer than 1923, with national production at 12.3 million cases versus 14 million the prior year. States diverge, Maine New York Minnesota up, Iowa Illinois Maryland each down 20 to 25 percent. Ohio halves its output year over year.
The Youth's Companion issues its 1925 Home Calendar with usefulness and charm. Each monthly leaf features a rhimed aphorism by Arthur Gutterman or other writer and a cheerful vignette reflecting the month's festivities or weather. Marginal calendars show previous and next months. the calendar is offered free with subscription orders and costs 2.50 for the 52 issues.
The following pupils earned Honor Roll: First Grade Lizzie Leach Charlot Livengood. Second Grade Joseph McCoy William Eugene Varney. Third Grade Paul Thirey Louis Snell. Fourth Grade Naomi Snell Henry Steward Walter McCoy. Fifth Grade Dorothy Daugherty Virginia Price. Sixth Grade Lawrence Brown Olin Blackburn. Seventh Grade Glenn Snell Earl Ferree. Eighth Grade Alice Ferree Marie McCoy. Nellie Russell, Teacher.
Mrs. N. B. Dennison, who has assisted in the recorder’s office, was appointed by Mrs. Mofford as regular deputy to replace Foster Altman who resigned to become Deputy U. S. Marshal with headquarters in Cincinnati.
Since the Grant Highway from Cincinnati to Georgetown and the improved macadam pike to Mt Crab intersect the road to Williamsburg Batavia and Newtown, a near 100 mile route now gives Clermont residents a fine afternoon trip. The drive is praised as a standout scenic route.
GC W Latimer shot and killed Pennsylvania Railroad officer Charles Mackrodt on a Xenia, Ohio street on November 26. A five-woman seven-man jury found Latimer guilty of second degree murder after a trial begun last week. Defense witnesses included A W Cutter and Thos J Harper from Loveland.
State Highway Director L A Boulay outlines a two year program with aggressive gravel road construction in counties with scarce funds. First contract letting expected to total 2,000,000 with plans ready about February 1. Wet grades cited as better than no road given lime in gravel and macadam out of reach.
Bethel Ohio reports Rev R C Foster of Cincinnati Bible Seminary began his pastorate at Bethel Christian Church on Sunday January 4. Foster is an alumnus of Yale and Harvard and is described as a clear thinker and fine speaker.
Loveland Ohio January 7 neighbors gathered at the home of Charles Fisher and wife to mark their twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Mr and Mrs Fisher presented with a set of silver spoons. Guests included Mr and Mrs Frank Farson Mr and Mrs George Hill Mr and Mrs Fred Sauerbeck and Mesdames Owens End GAN and Miss Kathryn Sauerbeck.
The fragment references a sale notice perhaps tied to Bata and Rio area, with a contact phone Ypatavia. Details are unclear but indicate a classified sale or auction entry in a local note. No full names or dates are readable.
A peculiar set of phenomena in the Yukon and Greenland is described as pollen from distant pine trees causing yellow rain and red snow. The yellow deposit travels by wind from distant forests, while the red snow results from wind-borne bits of seaweed pigments.
Clermont County grand jury opened Monday morning before Judge Charles White with Prosecutor Carl Z Garland and Sheriff Fred Croswell in charge. A large number of witnesses has been assembled for a three day session with several important cases and many minor ones. New officials handle the work smoothly and a report is expected next week.
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