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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1917
Page
4
The Clermont Courier notes its weekly Batavia Ohio publication schedule with the July 17 issue reference and listed prices for one year and three months. The item preserves the paper’s period tone and pricing era.
A court docket lists new suits including divorce and alimony cases such as Schiessler vs Schiessler and Pangburn v Pangburn, along with injunctions and title actions. It also notes guardianship, partition, quiet title filings, marriage licenses, estate administrations, final accounts, and public sale filings.
A compilation of property transfers lists William Cann to Lizzie E Jones for 35 acres at $1, Malinda Crone to Lucy K Moore for Lot 82 in New Richmond at $150, and multiple transfers within Williamsburg Northside Park including E P Goodwin to George Schilling and Wm DeMougin to Schilling for various lots all at $1. Additional transfers cover Forest Park Love land, Union Township cemetery Lot 9, Milford Lot 28, Owensville Anderson’s addition lots 67 68 69, Tate Township 88 acres, Batavia lot, Miami Township fractional acre life estates, Moscow Lot 8, Jackson TWP properties and Robinson’s Miamiville addition Lot 64, among others. The list includes details of buyers, sellers, parcels and nominal consideration.
County commissioners approved numerous bills for supplies repairs and services including W H Anderson Co Clermont Sun and Johnson Watson among others. Bond for Rollin S Coyle clerk elect filed and treasurer elect W Mekhever bond set at 100000 by security companies.
Mayor Ashburn appoints Attorney Norman L. Burnet as Police Judge for the remainder of 1917, filling the vacancy left by BE. O. Lease. Burnet will serve the balance of the year in the city judiciary.
Miss Beatrice Wagner of Cincinnati has been appointed musical director for Batavia Milford and Newtonsville schools for the coming year. Miss Jenetta Taylor of Birmingham Alabama is named normal director at Clermont County Normal School in Batavia with a salary of 1000 dollars. She is an Ohio State University graduate. Both bring qualifications and experience for success.
The Batavia boys of Company M now in camp at Georgetown extend sincere thanks to Batavia residents and societies for kindness, supplies, and memories given before departure and in camp. They again express lasting gratitude.
Mr and Mrs George Hugo hosted a birthday party for their daughter Marie in their country home. The event gathered twenty one children from Batavia for games music and gifts with refreshments of ice cream and cake. Guests included Jack Jamieson Catherine Bishop Billie Wilson Martha Nash and others chaperoned by Mrs J K Ashburn and Miss Elina Townsley.
Clerk Harry S. Cole reports total office business near prior years. Key figures include 37 new divorce filings, 45 decided, 14 alimony in wife cases, 11 in husband cases. custody totals 1 to father and 17 to mother. Civil judgments total 167 with $120,869.56 due. indictments include concealed weapons 11 and burglaries 2. One Austrian male naturalization granted.
Notice to owners of property to be assessed for a sanitary sewer on Spring street Batavia Ohio Council resolution April 2 1917 district 1 plans estimates on file with clerk eight inch vitrified tile manholes costs assessed by benefits three annual installments interest 5 percent option cash within thirty days by order of Council C B Slade Village Clerk Batavia Ohio July 1 1917
County Recorder John Huntington released his annual report covering deeds and mortgages for agricultural land and town lots. It records 156 agricultural land deeds, 21 409 acres, 868 250.56 valuation, 51.76 per acre. It notes village deeds, leases, and town lot transactions, plus 469 mortgage cancellations covering 26 481 acres. Report dated July 10.
Clermont County Commissioners invite sealed bids by July 30 for furnishing and installing a complete steam heating plant in the County Jail Building Batavia Ohio. Materials must be American Radiator Company or equivalent plus specified radiators valves and vents. Bidder to provide extra heavy range boiler and plumbing connections. Auditor Oleona Searls reserves right to reject bids.
Bids will be received at the auditor's office in Batavia Ohio until 11:00 a m on August 6 1017 for supplying all material and labor to construct 452 feet on Maple and Goodwin road Franklin township Plans and specs are on file at the auditor's office A certified check of 10 accompanies each bid to guarantee bid bond rights to the auditor Cleona Searls auditor and clerk
Public auction notice in Clermont County Ohio for the sale of multiple parcels in Goshen and surrounding townships. Court of Common Pleas precedents list the property descriptions, boundaries, and total appraisal of eighteen hundred dollars. Sale set for Saturday July 23, 1917 at 11:60 AM at the Batavia court house front door. Cash terms. Bert F Swing Sheriff. Deputy B D Miller and A B Nichols attorney.
Notice of settlement states that administrators executors guardians and assignees have filed accounts for settlement in Clermont County Ohio Probate Court and a hearing is set for Thursday July 26 with time for exceptions. Listed are C H Lochard executor Elijah Harness Thomas Hoover executor James Hoover Roge Ayer executrix R M Ayer Anna L Bateman executrix Benjam in Bateman Qurrie Bine executrix Helen C Hine Emma Bay Varnum executrix Thomas Bay John Nichols administrator Maria Owens administrator William Gaskins administrator Oscar Gaskins August Bilz administrator Mary Ramsey D W Murphy assignee Frank Brown William McDonough guardian Samuel McDonough Charlies GQ Framber guardian Alma Framber Mary Good guardian James Edna Good.
Notice announces the appointment of an executor for the estate in Clermont County. The document references probate court action and filing dates, with names obscured in OCR. It indicates official designation and procedural steps for the estate of Katie E. McNutt and related parties.
Contractors invited to submit sealed proposals by noon August 1917 for building a tap room school at Edenton Ohio. Work includes excavations brick masonry stone work carpentry plastering roofing heating and more with plans at the Clerk and architect offices. Bids require guaranty equal to 30 percent and must be on official forms noting bid for school building. The Board reserves right to reject any bid.
Legal notice to Anna Henness and husband unknown as non residents. John Rieser filed June 6 1817 in Clermont County Court of Common Pleas in case 14210 seeking foreclosure of a mortgage on Union Township land in Mosley survey 1115 by Frederick Runde. Describes parcel along Hall's Run and East Fork Little Miami River with described corners and access right of way.
Public auction ordered by the Clermont County Common Pleas Court will sell the described real estate at the court house front door in Batavia on Saturday August 18 1917. The parcel contains about sixty acres in Clayton survey No 581 and is appraised at 3000 dollars with terms of sale by Sheriff Ohrner F Swing and deputy B D Niciller acting for the plaintiff.
Milford Ohio clerk Jerome Felertag posts a job opening for a Providence school in Union township seeking a teacher to meet state law requirements with salary set at 50 dollars. Eligible applicants directed to contact Box 85, 1116.
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