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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1930
Page
8
Autumnal verse opens this country page with Miss Louise Massey returning from De S at Bunsey and neighbors invited to a social at O F Hall on January 20 8 15. Community notices urge baskets for gatherings and list regional names, places and events including travel, a deserter tale, portraits, visitors returning home to Louisville and Cincinnati, and a radio promotion by Atwater Kent Seren.
The Amelia H. 8. teams beat Williamsburg 16 15 for the girls and 31 22 after overtime for the boys. The Amelia town team won 41 to 13 over the Bure town team. Owensville H. 8. teams visit Amelia Friday at 8 15.
Detroit January 4 Chevrolet announces price reductions from 25 to 50 dollars on seven of twelve models in the 1930 line while introducing three new body types. Base price 495 dollars places the six cylinder within five dollars of the lowest four cylinder price. Knudsen cites 1929 output and lower costs from precision manufacturing as reasons for savings. Factory delivery included Flint Michigan. Plants nationwide now at capacity to meet demand.
Miss Hilda Kain and John R. Hayes become engaged at a Midletown TV Club gathering hosted by Miss Mildred Kain. A concealed ring with a card reading John and Hilda was found in a lady finger amid dinner celebrations. Both families and friends, including Velma Imhoff and Mildred Kain, extended congratulations. No wedding date is set.
Public auction at Laurel Nicholsville and Laurel Salt Air pikes six miles east of New Richmond on Saturday January 1 1980 starting at 10 am. Items include two good work horses 1200 lb each 11 head of cattle four cows with calf by side eight milk animals heifers and bull calves farm implements hay corn potatoes fodder and other articles. Usual terms. A M Ellis auctioneer Walter Smith clerk Lunch on ground.
The Moore home near Nicholsville hosted a kitchen shower for Caroline Arnold upon her marriage to Porter Moore. Guests celebrated with a holiday colored gift trail, an elegant lunch, and wishes for many years of married life after a Florida honeymoon.
County schools resume class on time after holiday vacation. Diphtheria and smallpox appear in some areas with quarantines in place. Health authorities urge continued quarantine of affected patients and remind that no schools have closed.
George Maynard Alick Maynard and Martin Monroe of Turkey Creek Adams county were arrested Monday by Sheriff C M Mack and Deputies J R Lantz and A H Meeker on warrants charging them with stealing 200 pounds of tobacco from Dahl Shoemaker. They allegedly hauled the tobacco to Maysville and sold it. Before Squire Cooper the three were bound over to the grand jury in 500 dollars each. Monroe furnished bond and was released. The two Maynards remain jailed in default of bond.
Damages to the Batavia lodge building last week have been adjusted. Chas. Hitt awarded the contract to repair the I O O F hall with the lodge room least damaged and rugs lightly scorched. The store room will be rebuilt with new plate glass and Foster’s stock losses will be settled once duplicate bills are secured. Business to resume soon.
Farm notes report the corn borer advancing toward Mt. Healthy with rapid spread in corn regions and westward movement faster than eastward. Winds and flood drift spread infested stalks. a November hearing set a quarantine line from the Indiana border along Butler Clermont and Hillsboro. Officials note reliance on natural enemies until pest control improves.
Ten veterans of the Norfolk and Western Railway in Roanoke were honored by the company for long service. A. C. Needles, president, awarded gold and diamond insignia to members with 50 years plus. Charles C. Brown, Roanoke, the longest serving, began in 1870 and retired 67 years later in 1927.
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