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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1937
Page
5
A flurry of Sunday visits and guest appearances populate the Amelia area with relatives from Circleville Cincinnati and beyond. Residents attend missionary meetings and garden club gatherings while many travel to Toledo Athens Gallion and Williamsport for extended visits and reunions.
A series of social visits are listed from Newtonsville and surrounding communities. Families including Hodges Higby Dumford Stevick and others hosted or visited in Dayton, Branch Hill, Hyde Park, Carthage, Maple Grove, and Belois Wash over the past weekend and week.
County board in Batavia approves read minutes and assigns engineer to draft plans for a slip near Ella Turner’s farm on Sugar Camp Road in Miami Township. They elect Allie Rowan to the Welfare Board to serve until March 1942 and list terms for other members. Budget actions include relief funds for Grover Freak and highway easement purchases, plus multiple county expenditures and bids. The engineer to prepare road grub and weed removal estimates across townships, six feet wide berms and ten feet high clearance.
Glen Este community notes a two week visit by J. E. Huheey and granddaughter Betty Galbrath to Ed Huheey and family. Otto Meyer and companion, Geo Nedderman, Louise Philip and Bob Fister joined Mr. and Mrs. Phil Sperry for Sunday guests. Various residents hosted weekend gatherings and attended a Red Cross meeting in Batavia Friday.
The U S Civil Service Commission announces open competitive exams for chief of probation and parole service salaried at 5600 a year supervisor of probation 4600 a year and assistant supervisor of probation 3800 a year in the Bureau of Prisons Department of Justice. Required education and experience noted.
The Willing Workers Food Club of Owensville met June 17 with 25 members present. Vice President Rosemary Davis led the session and groups worked on projects and records. Demonstrations were given by Eugenia Podersai Lucille Demoret and Luella Pierce. Refreshments were served by Eleanor Lushbaugh Lucille Yeager Mary Elien Evans and Rosemary Davis. The club adjourned to meet July 1 at the school building.
The Chatterbox Sewing Club gathered at Mrs Williams home on June 18 with 18 members present. Plans were set for a Coney Island 4-H Club Day trip on June 24 and several games were played with refreshments served. The meeting adjourned until a hike to Lillian Sanders home on Friday July 2.
The Nicholsville Silver Stitch 4-H Club met at Mrs Rose Jacksons home on June 12. The president urged officers to report duties and members outlined their roles. A trip to Coney Island was set for June 24 and the next meeting will be at secretary Helen Halls home on June 26.
Mt Carmel Summerside 4 H Club met at advisor Stanley Pattison's home with eleven members. Nelson Mc Graw presented Poultry Diseases and Their Control. The group planned more reports for the next meeting and adjourned to June 28. Recreation followed with Capture the Flag led by Joseph Clark. Mrs Pattison served orangeade and cookies.
Northwestern National Life Insurance reports high starting salaries and abundant job calls for 1937 graduates across 76 schools. Top third graduates attract six offers, with 75 to 80 percent securing positions by graduation and many openings in electric, steel, oil, and other industries. Some jobs are offered to lower ranking graduates as demand exceeds supply.
Dr. Grover C. Stukey at Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery led a historic dissection exposing a single intact nervous system spread flat for study. The display, prepared for the National Museum in Washington, required fifteen hundred hours and involved assistants Virgil R. Forrester and John Gladstone Henery.
Boston student Arthur Flagler Fultz believes musical co therapy can treat personality disorders. He says music can recalibrate a person and help them regain control, envisioning portable phonographs for physicians and hospitals becoming concert halls. He warns excessive music hurts concentration.
Sacramento laws require birth certificates on aged California wine bottles and mandate that label fixers swear a legal oath the stated age is correct. The rule targets verifiable wine ages and imposes an oath of accuracy on the label maker.
El Centro California reports a rise in scrap metal thefts as prices climb. Sheriff R. W. Ware says farm machinery brass cast iron and pipe fittings are increasingly stolen due to higher overseas demand from Europe and Japan for scrap metal.
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