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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1940
Page
5
Courier correspondence items recount moves and visits across Franklin and nearby towns. Families travel to Smoky Mountains, Maine, and Ontario fishing trips. social events include a Mt Zion age social and a Loyal Temperance picnic. Health updates, visits, and revival meetings are noted along with sympathy for a bereaved reader.
Mrs Clarence Kennedy hosted the Contract Bridge Club Friday evening. The Milner Reunion occurred in Burke Park Saturday. Mrs Effie Swing returns from Michigan. Clyde Simms and family of Wheeling WV visited the Dr Cully home the past week. Sunday dinner guests included Chas H Beck wife and son Eddie Mr and Mrs Robert Swing and Joyce Ann at the Beck Harris home. Allan Lee Harris stayed with friends at Tiffin. Collard Deel family visited Sunday afternoon. Will H Boss of Terrace Park visited Monday. Bertha Ulrey hosts after visiting Cedarville and Newtonsville. Rev Garrett and family take a two week Canada vacation. Ruth Faul visiting relatives in Tennessee. Hannah Hughes returns from Northern Ohio.
Isaac Dumford aged 87 lifelong Newtonville resident died Wednesday Funeral Friday at 2 PM at his home conducted by Rev Russell Burial by George W Monroe in Plainview cemetery The family expresses community sympathy Also Baptist Township Sunday School convention held at Milford Church Attendees included Mrs John Smith and son Jimmie Mr and Mrs Talbert Morrow and daughter Marie and Mrs Allie Jones Other notes Mrs Emma Pringle seriously ill at daughter Mrs Carl Anstaett home Mr and Mrs Homan Marsh visited sister Mrs O Hara Covington KY Ralph Long visited Xenia and Dayton Last Tuesday Mrs Belle Schooley confined but improving Mrs Blanche Long with son William and wife at Edenton Thursday guests Mrs Glenn Conover Mrs Cora Dodson Mrs Allie Henry and daughter Springfield James of Cincinnati Friday guest Juanita Swartz returned home after two weeks with aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs William Fletcher Covington Ohio
The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian Church met at Mrs. Huston Newman's home. Mrs. Earl Edman is convalescing at Good Samaritan Hospital. Attendees at Dr. H. E. Cover's funeral included Dr. and Mrs. Rapp and Winnie Hill. Russell Kain explores Clermont by bicycle. Mrs. Clarence Hill Dorothy Buzzard and Mrs. Hadley visited Mrs. Howard Snell in Martinsville. Huston Newman hosted dinner guests S. B. Lowe and family and Mary Shawhan and Dorothy Griswold from Lebanon. Grace Hadley vacationing with an aunt in Hyde Park. Joseph Adams enjoyed his new brother John Marion. Mr. and Mrs. Peete and sons visited the McCoy home. Houston Newman hosted Raymond Satterfield and family.
A large turnout attended the Republican Rally in Pt Isabel School Park on Monday evening. Mrs Lily Theiderman formerly of this place died at her Felicity home Thursday July 25 with burial in the I O O F cemetery scheduled for Sunday afternoon.
Out of town attendees include Mrs Alta Weil of Laurel Gus Brown and daughter of Cincinnati Mrs Lawrence Cochenower Mrs Coon Miss Rhoda Welch and Ralph Johnson of Cincinnati for Mrs Edwards funeral. Local visits include Mrs Myers with her daughter Mrs Will Lung mus and Mrs Maude Tarvin from Milford. Betty and Bobby Tarvin toured Kentucky. Edwyn Tarvin left for Missouri with D Scorse family. Jack Smith to sing in M E Church Westwood choir. Ruth Ringel returned from Lindale visit with grandmother Mrs Brick. Mrs Gale Oberlin hosted guests including Mrs Ann Dillon C C Rouser Carlos Hutson Will Williams and J R Carlisle. Mery Ford and Jannette Ellis saw One Million Years B C at Bethel.
The Mt Holly item notes Anna Lou Moore has returned home from hospital and is recovering well after an appendectomy. Other society notes include Mrs Chas Gibson and children returning from Tennessee, Joe Taylor attending a Kentucky funeral, and gatherings in Maysville and Hyde Park with relatives visiting from Los Angeles Akron Indiana.
Belfast-WM society notices include Mr and Mrs Jessie Gross entertaining during the week, Miss Alene Day visiting Louisville and parents, news of Gus Deck’s sudden death at Jewish Hospital with Cincinnati funeral, Mildred Ann McCormick hosting a party for Claussa Taylor from New York, updates on Edna Burdsall at Bethesda Hospital, various social calls and a Sunday visit to Lunken Airport, and a picnic at the McCormick home with multiple local families.
The Carmel Flying Needle club met for its eighth gathering on July 25 at the school. Members wrapped up sewing work and planned a photo-taking excursion for next week’s final meeting. Freda Bickel and Rowena Lykins will design a new club banner.
James Rivetti builds a pocket size grand piano in Aliquippa Pennsylvania. The minia ture instrument measures 6 inches long and 4% inches wide with a 28 key keyboard. Construction started 1% years ago and should be playable in six months.
The Central Executive Board of the Clermont Rangers met July 17 at Batavia Court House Ohio. Corporal Raquet of the State Highway Patrol gave a talk. The group reports on law enforcement juvenile cases and community welfare. They operate at no cost to the county and seek cooperation under state patrol supervision.
The report states 86 553 refrigerator cars are privately controlled by railroads in the United States today. It also notes 22 013 refrigerator cars are owned and controlled by the railroads.
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