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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1938
Page
5
Local column lists calls for items to courier notifying readers to call nearest correspondent. Notes visits and greetings among residents across Clermont County with many names and towns.
Mrs Olin Fagin hosted a Saturday afternoon party for her daughter Frances 14th birthday with fifteen guests. Relatives and visitors from Corbin Ky, Crittenden Ky, Mariemont, Toledo, Amelia, Bethel and Cincinnati attended or were noted in weekend visits. Reverend Zimmerman led Sunday service at Ban tam Presbyterian Church.
Miss Clara Steward visited with Mr and Mrs Donald Predmore in Pittsburgh. Hillsboro guests Mrs Harold Predmore and daughter Barbara Ann stayed with Predmore, while J R Johnson entertained Mrs Calvin Leeds and Martha Norwood. Other visits included Mr and Mrs Ralph Curtis hosting Earl Judd and Kenneth Raye Milford and Mrs Atkinson with Virginia Wilmington. James Glancy hosted Biggs Cincinnati guests. Wise siblings Eugene and Dorothy Lee of Lynchburg spent the week with grandparents Lou Coleman.
The Tri C Class of the M E Church plans a bake sale on Saturday June 4 at Wilson's Meat Market. Mr and Mrs Charles Dillon of St Louis visit relatives in Amelia. Decorations Day trips and relatives from Kentucky and Ohio are noted among local families.
Earl Griffith of Mt. Gilead publisher of The Morrow County Sentinel and a longtime Republican figure announced his candidacy for Ohio secretary of state. He praised Bricker for governor, urged economy and planning, and urged a Republican slate with him in November. Local notes report Decoration Day visits, cemetery trustees elected at Amelia Cemetery Association on May 30.
Carmel's Flying Needle 4H Club met May 20 at 4 PM with twenty members present. Officers elected: Alma Aicholtz president, Audrey McClanahan vice president, Hazel Roye secretary, Dorothy Bleil news reporter, Dorothy Livengood treasurer, Beulah Hygema recreation leader. A second May meeting was May 26 at 2 PM.
The piece surveys several topics from a rival name for the Gideons, to Panamore in central Ceylon where elephants trumpet at sacred springs, to Africa where elephants damage plantations, to the English bulldog as Britain’s symbol of grit, and finally to diamonds and boron carbide as abrasives. It blends folklore, animal behavior, breed symbolism, and industrial materials.
A Washington Star essay traces the ring from ancient symbol of eternity to medieval betrothal device. It describes linked rings that break apart and unite again at marriage, and notes engraved verses from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries expressing bridal devotion.
A Washington Post writer notes that infants respond to sound from birth, more than to light. Hearing develops from day one as air moves through the Eustachian tubes, affecting the middle ear and eardrums. Most babies have normal hearing, though some have hereditary or prenatal defects requiring medical evaluation.
The Red River of the North rises in Minnesota and flows 350 miles north to Lake Winnipeg. Its clay coloring shapes its name and spring floods. Before railroads it linked Canada with the Mississippi, with small steamers reaching Lake Traverse and the Minnesota River basin.
A New Zealand glacier system extends unusually far downslope into sub tropical zones. Fox glacier descends to 670 feet above sea level with rocky debris strewn surface and deep crevasses.
The late Rudyard Kipling paid a grocer by check but never received the canceled checks. He learned the butcher was selling his signatures as autographs, making his name on a check more valuable than the instrument itself.
The first lamp patent appeared in 1798 awarded to John Love of South Carolina for a tallow lamp. The earliest known nursery lamp is by William Howe of Boston dated 1812. A second key patent went to John W. Schulz and William Trull in 1831. Between these grants twenty other patents were issued.
Biographical sketch of S. A. Ringer born 1886 on a Southern Ohio farm near Greenfield. Details education, law practice, military service, occupations, affiliations, and motives. Advocates for Republican values and urges voters to support Ringer in the Sixth District with bold campaign language.
The National Statuary Hall in the U S Capitol was dedicated in 1864 for two statues from each state. A 1933 act required redistributing one statue per state due to crowding, passed during the Seventy seventh Congress on February 21 1933. Courtship in Mexico is described as a staged process culminating in a rose.
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