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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1931
Page
8
Ed Stewart spent last week with Geo Peterson and family in Hawthorn New Jersey. Many locals attended visits, travels, and family events across townships and nearby towns. Several obituaries social gatherings and summer notices appear along with ads for gas stoves and coal deals.
State Highway Department selects S. Monroe & Sons Co to widen 15 miles of Federal Route 60 from Dodsonville to Marathon. Federal project with $100000 estimate sets new 20 foot width under John and Harold Monroe supervision. Batavia Theater notes July 18 and 19 showings of Reducing with Marie Dressler and Polly Moran.
County reports show tomatoes under multiple diseases despite favorable growing conditions. Septoria leaf spot causes large losses. control relies on Bordeaux sprays, arsenicals, copper-lime dust, and clean seedling stock. Wilt and early blight also threaten yields. resistant varieties and preventative spraying advised. University bulletins on tomato growing and pest control are available.
Charles Shinkle, an oil man, reports his garden beans were stolen after his wife planned to pick and can them for winter. The vines were stripped of every bean, leaving the crop gone. Beans cost five cents a pound and cabbage fifty cents a barrel. Charlie seeks the thief and the bean man.
John Wilson and Thos Johnson of Goshen Township appeared before Squirs 8 Larkin on a trespassing charge for entering Robert Gibson’s farm. They pled guilty and were fined $10 plus costs.
The army worm invasion threatens crops on every side as farmers in Clinton county battle the pest. Some growers report success using poisoned bran as a control measure.
Adams county land appraisers informed the county auditor of a heavy loss from the tax duplicate. About one million dollars has been taken from the duplicate on real estate.
A. Flowers of Hanover near Newark harvested a quart of strawberries and raised his season total to 4000 quarts from a half acre. He plans to pick 5000 quarts of raspberries from another half acre, a record never equalled locally.
Bantam Grange No. 248 held a meeting with a program planned by two officers the chaplain and secretary. The next meeting will feature another two-brother arrangement as a surprise. They announce an ice cream festival for the hall’s first anniversary on Saturday July 18 1981 with homemade cake and cream and invite friends to attend.
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