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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1932
Page
4
The piece analyzes party platforms, noting many similar planks and the focus on issues like World War Veterans Relief War Debts unemployment and especially Prohibition. It discusses the Eighteenth Amendment repeal debate with Democrats backing repeal via local option and the wets versus drys as the election nears.
In Common Pleas Court new suits include Eva Clements versus Frank Clements for divorce and Clermont Building Savings & Loan Company of Miamiville versus Russell and Helen Cutler for foreclosure. Probate Court covers marriage licenses for Herbert J. Schaefer and Mary E. Verkamp, several estates with hearings, guardianships, final accounts, and executors appointed.
Guardians appointed and estate inventories filed including Lucian D. Shriver and Corrie Kennedy. Bonds released for John S. McLean and Thomas Kayata estate. Will and inheritance provisions for Robert M. Savage and Emma Bauman. Real estate transfers record transfers in Union and Batavia townships with nominal sums.
Special session minutes show payments to laborers, inspectors, and suppliers totaling numerous dollars. Projects include 400 yards crushed stone on Lower Cedron road at 1.69 per yard, two bridge purchases from C. J. Fox Co for Big Indian Creek and Clover Creek locations, and guard rail orders for Ilhardt bridge.
Stanley Grove, 19, of Williamsburg, pleaded guilty to attempted rape of an aged woman around May 15. Judge Charles G. White sentenced him to Mansfield Reformatory for a term of five to thirty years. He was taken to Mansfield by Deputy Sheriff A. W. Meinken.
The Grant Memorial Committee, meeting this week, postponed the Annual Carnival from its late August date due to prevailing business conditions. The delay shifts the event to an unspecified later date. Also note reports on cannibalism noting some groups in New Guinea Africa and interior Australia still practice the practice.
Sealed bids for coal will be received by the Batavia township Board of Education until 11 a.m. August 6 1932. Delivery by September 1 1932 to Afton Elklick Olive Branch Elmwood plants with tonnage 10 5 8 and 3 respectively. By order of Lott Hulick president and E R Ungelhue m clerk July 1932.
Public auction ordered by the Clermont County Court of Common Pleas for the sale of mortgaged goods and chattels in the case Personal Finance Co. vs. Anna May Korb and Walter Korb. Items include chairs, tables, cabinets, rugs, a washer, stove, and other household items. Auction Friday July 29 1982 between 1 and 2 pm. Cash terms. Robert Roberts, Clerk. A Meinken Deputy.
Despite very warm weather on Saturday evening July 16 Mt Carmel Grange met with good attendance. Miss Viola Maddox directed games including a word contest that educated and entertained, helping increase members vocabulary.
A Dartmouth professor traces vertebrate origins to an obscure ancient race of scorpions. The Nashville Banner notes this theory gains plausibility as many people know someone supporting the idea.
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