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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1920
Page
8
Batavia residents host visitors from Amelia and Reed Springs. The Hawaiian Singers perform at the opera house Friday night. A marriage in Batavia is recorded. Community gatherings at the United Brethren church and Owensville are announced. Local business, insurance meetings, and potential tax changes for schools are outlined.
The Rev Edmund Burdsall longtime M E Church pastor now in Winchester was operated on for strangulated hernia at Christ Hospital about two weeks ago. He is slowly improving and hopes to return to Batavia in the fall to establish his future home and remodel his property there before moving.
The Batavia Tobacco Market opened January 14 with 71 000 pounds sold at an average of 27.33 per cwt amid crowds and over 50 wagons in the Batavia House driveways. The sale drew all four major buyers and featured light rejections with new buyers joining. A stronger market is expected as better grades arrive. Thursday’s sale was 68 000 pounds at 30.89 per cwt with light rejections.
Major Julius A. Penn stationed in Washington D C hosted his sister Miss Jennie Penn of Batavia for three weeks over the holidays. On New Year’s day nearly 100 Clermonters joined them for a day long like a family reunion. Miss Penn returned home last week.
Har risson farmer Charles Bonham lauds seven years of dealings with Tri State Butter Company of Cincinnati. He sold over 10,000 dollars worth of cream, prefers direct ship for higher quality and price, and offers free 30 day trial cans to new buyers.
In Williamsburg Ohio on January 20 the Peoples Bank reaffirmed the prior year’s board of directors E Moorhead J W Lytle L D Waite T J Dugan George Brintzinghoffer C B Chaney John King John McClung and B F Rapp with B S Moorhead as president J W Lytle as vice president T J Dugan as clerk Jas E McKeever cashier and Mona McAdams assistant cashier. A Farmers and Merchants Bank board meeting in Williamsburg followed.
The Davis hill west of Batavia along the Hamlet pike has become a perilous ice slope in cold weather. Several accidents occurred with autos sliding toward Story Run. a guard rail from top to bottom is urged as commissioners are asked to install protection soon.
A large crowd witnessed the Owensville high school girls meet Batavia high school girls at the Armory. The Batavia team displayed strong play and won decisively with a final score of 84 to 18.
An OCR fragment reports a pediatric medicine brand called Fletcher's Castoria with unclear surrounding text and names. The readable portion mentions J. J. Werner and other garbled phrases, lacking coherent event or full context.
Sale dates listed by name for February 4 through February 19 across multiple locations. Parties include Hauck and Brooke, McKeever Pike, Williamsburg, Mrs. Kate Blade and Bloomrose, Ed Miller near Twin Bridges, J. H. Hilton Elklick and Afton road, Roy Johna on Head farm Bik Lick, S. G. Williams Auctioneer, contact Williamsburg 6 percent.
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