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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1889
Page
8
Clermont County items report Bantam Fair premium lists ready and fair openings set for August 27. Community notices cover local politics, education, church events, insurance, and merchants promotions. Mentions of Ed Fishback, Charley Urey becoming Owensville mayor, and local business ads.
Muss E M Nowers of Williamsburg advertises greatly reduced millinery to close spring and summer stock. The item is part of a long, mixed page of local notices including court references, obituaries, and community events.
Notes on visits and health from Eastwood Batavia and nearby towns. W G Ferree of Eastwood in Batavia, E F Hutson of Bethel recovering from measles, Norman Moore improving from hand injury, and several residents visiting Courier staff. Families such as the Swings, Ward, Penn, and Holter are mentioned with travel or celebrations.
A party of ladies from the New Richmond Presbyterian society visited Batavia hosted by Mrs. Judge Davis. They enjoyed a pleasant day including a town promenade after a dinner and learned Batavia’s county seat appeal, with visiting guests listed among reverends and families.
Messrs. Stirling and Moore showcased about twenty harvesters sold this season as farmers gathered to town to fetch their machines. They paraded through the streets to martial music, signaling progress since twenty years ago such a scene would have been impossible. The dealers are the county’s largest, with sales expected to double next year.
David Tarbell of the News-Democrat condemns dog poisoners while urging citizen action as danger to children rises from poisoned bread or meat. The note also lists pensions granted to several veterans and their widows with monthly amounts and dates.
The venerable George W Rice died June 10 1889 at his son’s Camp Dennis home in his 82nd year. He worked for Ohio Life Insurance and Trust 1849 to 1869 and later for the American Christ Review until his death. H had lived at Guinea City nine years. Mrs Eliza Beck of Bethel died suddenly at home last Wednesday aged 141 leaving four sons Timothy Horace Marcus and Amos.
Consumers flock to Dr. King's New Discovery free trial bottles at W. R. Walkening Store Batavia and J. B. Walker's Williamsport as coughs colds and lung complaints vanish. The advertisement touts cures for consumption and asthma, claiming the remedy clears throat and lung ailments and boosts trade.
John Girtner pled guilty to selling liquor to an intoxicated person and received ten days in jail plus a fifty dollar fine. H Fridman vs John Mace resulted in a plaintiff verdict of seventy five dollars and seventy eight cents. Hester A Behymer vs Solomon Behymer granted a divorce with custody to plaintiff and restoration of her maiden name. Robert Mosley of Felicity jailed three days with a five dollar fine for carrying concealed weapons. Under Pennsylvania lines supervision, two armies worked to complete the Johnstown washout fix and ready the new trunk line for express trains linking major cities by June 17.
The Bee Line offers an electric lighted limited express from Cincinnati at 7 20 p m daily arriving in New York Grand Central at 6 0 p m next day Central Standard Time. Tourists can ride along the Hudson from Albany to New York and transfer to Hudson River steamers. Sleeping cars operate Cincinnati to New York and Boston. Tourist tickets to Niagara Falls Lake Chautauqua Put-in-Bay and other resorts are on sale with reduced return rates until October 31. The line touts fast schedules and connections via West Shore or New York Central.
The Ohio and Northwestern railroad will run a Turnerfest excursion from Portamouth to Cincinnati and back on Sunday June 23. The special train departs Portamouth at 7:00 a.m. and arrives in Cincinnati at 10:45 a.m. with two intermediate stops Batavia and Williamsburg. Return from Cincinnati at 6:00 p.m. Round trip fare is one dollar. The trip offers a family outing and attendance at the National Turner festival meeting.
An advertisement touts eightwayr treatment as a universal cure for tetter, salt rheum, ringworm, piles, itch, sores, pimples, and eczema, claiming it heals long standing skin eruptions cheaply. The notice also reports Joan F. Sxrrm appointed post master at Logtown, replacing M. B. Yeager.
State of Ohio Clermont County 88 Probate Court notices list administrators executors guardians and assignees who have filed accounts for settlement and are continued for exceptions on Monday July 1 1889 The list includes John M Pattison George W Ringold C C Ebersole L F Van Cleve Jacob Jackson J F Wissel J H and Mary Barkley Jared Lemar James E Slack Katie Ernst ee Smith O P Griffith Alpheus Johnson Wm F Prickett Lizzie B Sprague John H Gaskins and others with various final partial statuses Judge William W Prather signs the notice
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