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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1934
Page
8
The Miermont Courier lists a one year subscription for 100 Carier and Cincinnati Post while the 3 25 Courier and Cincinnati Times Star offer similar terms. Cincinnati Enquirer and Courier match the 3 25 pricing in the notice.
Local items mention Lou M. Ely and Helen H. Rush entertaining a Sewing Club, Paul Smith visiting Cincinnati friends, and Kk. C. Knause seeking auditor nomination. Florida wintering by J. B. Covers and wife, plus a January 20 percent sale on linens. Wesleyan Players elects Sarah Jane Spencer. M. E. Sunday School corner hosts bake sale. Olive Branch school event Friday night offers bandwiches and coffee for sale.
Amelia hosts theatre for Jan 20 and 21 with Robin Armstrong and Richard Cronwell in Above the Clouds. Jackie Cooper performs Lone Cowboy with comedians. Each Wednesday features Prize Night events.
Judge H L Nichols and Mrs Chas Massey with county officials form a disaster setup for Clermont County at federal request. Chapter chairs include Frank Willis and Wm Dewdney with subcommittees on intelligence, rescue, food, clothing, shelter, medical aid, information, transport, and finance. Local chairs cover Chile Brice Moscow Neville New Richmond Milford Loveland Batavia and more.
Extension Class Wednesday evening January 17 begins the Wilmington College English Course on Shakespeare for two hours with Professor Smith at Batavia High School building. Meetings occur biweekly with the next session January 24 covering Latin American history taught by Professor Farr at the same location and time.
George Gregg of Batavia filed suit in Clermont county Court of Common Pleas to verify the legality of a $20,000 bond issue for the new courthouse. Judge White ruled Monday and the case was filed with the Court of Appeals. Attorneys are Britton & Britton Nichols Speidel & Nichols and Davis Ely & Ely.
Cartoonist Robert L. Ripley opens a large Believe It or Not additorium in Cincinnati at 131-185 West Fifth Street from January 18 to 29. The show features 25 living wonders and hundreds of curios including Laurella with a revolving head and the world’s smallest people Juan and Martina de la Cruz. Continuous performances run daily 1 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. with adult tickets 44 cents and children 15 cents including tax.
E L Carter of Hill Crest Orchard Milford captured first prize for three plates of varieties at the Clermont County Fruit Growers Association annual meeting in Batavia on January 12. Runners up included George Behymer Locust Corner Robert McNown Winchester and W E B Grossman God’s Bible School Orphanage Farm. Speeches on lime sulfur spray safety and efficiency apple scab control and other horticultural topics were delivered by regional specialists. Officers including C T Brown Bethel Robert R Caldwell and Albert Coombs were re elected for 1934-84 term.
The Ohio Relief Commission will buy 3 million dollars worth of cattle in January and February. About 12 000 steers and heifers totaling 6 million pounds of meat will be slaughtered for needy families. State buyers will purchase directly from farmers. cattle feeders should contact E B Baugh about sale quantities. An extension of the program after March 1 is planned to avoid surpluses. Reeves stock will be slaughtered and processed by Ohio meat packers under inspection for delivery to relief families.
The second series of Farmers Institutes in Clermont County draws large crowds with Owensville filling Monday and Tuesday, Goshen Wednesday and Thursday, and Amelia also showing strong turnout.
A list of recent telephone installations includes Batavia Exchange with Edward J. Hill on Centerville Road 2556 and Art Karrenberg on Ohio Pike 2362, Owensville Rev J C Stitzel Broadway 1219, Summerside Rev C W Robbins 2568, Nine Mile Road 2808 Geo H Davis Nine Mile Road 2808 Elsie Balman Tabasco and Mt Carmel Pike 2829 Bethel Exchange Virginia Lee Hill N Charity St 17 Layton Brown N Charity St 842 New Richmond Exchange Carrie Nagel 1940 Ray E Fetzer Market St 1 Virginia C Holt 121 Columbia Ave 122 Eli Ehoodin 9 Mile Rd 1648 Williamsburg Exchange A M Stamm Main St 1578 Maggie Moyer Gay St 1072.
Property of Rosa Sweet deceased offered for sale 5 room house and lot on 6th Street Batavia Ohio terms 1 3 cash balance deferred details via Louis C Bauer or Davis Ely & y Also for sale bay hay and farm wanted 60 to 100 acres cash or grain rent dog licenses to be issued by Mack Stafford at multiple local sites Jan 17 20
Mrs. A P Althaus of Bethel Ohio advertises a 20 percent January sale on Chinese linen and pajamas. The note hints politics are becoming vocal with rumors about the upcoming fall election, though the paper does not print rumors.
Secretary Wallace approves a marketing agreement to buy 260 million pounds of the 1933 burley tobacco crop from Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Signatories include The American Tobacco Co and R J Reynolds Co with prices at least 12 cents per pound.
Several farm sales are listed: John V. Lewis at Denham's Hill on Saturday January 20 offers Jersey cows buggies farm tools corn hay soy bean hay fodder with cash terms. Joe F. Windsor on Haworth farm near Bethel on Tuesday January 30 sells work horses harnesses farm implements fodder corn in crib with usual terms. Geo Ridgeway near Edenton Route 138 sells January 25 at 12 80 p m 38 head of mules cattle shoats farm implements 600 bu corn cash. Also rental notice for 78 acre farm near Newtonsville with 6 room house barn implements offered on share basis. contact Dr S E Eagon Cincinnati Ohio.
Auction style notices list farm property near Elmwood school house with 82 acres including house barn and tobacco barn, plus a general hardware and plumbing supply catalog from Wilke Moat and Supply Co in Batavia and related items in Batvain. Blanche Welch is connected to Dayton listing. Onte Feather bed pillows and dishes appear as miscellaneous sale lines.
Local job notice from Williamsburg Ohio seeks kitchen work for Mrs Lizzie Glaze. Details are unclear in the fragment, offering a glimpse of household service needs in the period.
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