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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1913
Page
8
Local notes report a parade of visitors and events. Helen Bishop returns from Oxford. Miss Mabel Hillin visits Cincinnati relatives. numerous summer guests travel from Batavia and Williamsburg. Births, visits, commencements, and garden-party refreshment notices fill the page along with a piano fund drive and building loan ads.
Fred Deville visits with friends in Butler County while relatives arrive from Lebanor Kirksville and Hyde Park for gatherings. Residents from Cincinnati Columbus London and Williamsburg visit Batavia, with others traveling to Trenton and Mt. Washington for family time. Ice plant runs two hours daily as orders from Cincinnati outpace supply.
A recent law extends admission to the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home at Xenia to children of O. N. G. members who died or were permanently disabled in the flood. They are admitted on the same basis and under the same laws as other children.
Citizens gathered at the Moscow M E church for Flag Day observance with Hon. Walter Remley of Georgetown delivering an appeal for every patriotic citizen to display the American flag on June 14. The town showed strong patriotic spirit as flags adorned homes and businesses. A committee including Mrs. E. E. De Bruler Ruth Moreton and Mary Shelley organized the event.
The Presbyterian Aid Society will serve ice cream cake and lemonade on Tib Browns lawn Bantam next Saturday evening. A M E church lawn fete in Owensville on Friday June 27 by Mrs Irene Pattison s 8 8 class. Boxwell Pattison commencement same evening. Mrs Belle Kaul and daughter Mena of Berea schools visited Batavia relatives last week. Cleon Seress deputy auditor in Cincinnati aiding in the auditor s office. John Sprintz and Ethel Smith married in Cincinnati. Col A S Whitlock loses old Boone county home to lightning. Attorney C B Nichols attended the Odd Fellows Grand Lodge in Toledo. Ladies Aid Society lawn fete in town hall park Friday night with ice creams ices and cake. You are invited.
Money to loan on real estate security in any amounts with first mortgage on real estate. Edwin Bly attorney at law Batavia Ohio offers loans payable monthly with one day notice. Credit arranged by Kmagnay Batavia.
Milford National absorbs Citizens' National Bank. Milford National keeps its name, gains $600000 in assets, $60000 surplus and $60000 capital. Citizens' National stock converted at four to one, leaving no Citizens' shareholder eligible for a director seat. A J Allen to be retained with the merged bank.
Advertisement promises People's Liniment relieves rheumatic pain and is claimed usable internally for cholera morbus and bowel disorder. Encourages asking druggist for the product and advises against alternatives. 4y1.
Attorney General McReynolds rules no charters will be issued for National banks with 25000 or 50000 capital in suburbs of large cities. The decision reverses federal policy and may push suburban towns near Chicago to organize only state banks. The law allows 25000 capital in towns under 8000 population and 50000 in towns under 6000.
Weather Sunday kept many attendees away from the cornerstone ceremony for the Second M. E. church. The gathered crowd heard talks and singing, and a $58 collection was taken. Rev. McPheeters, the pastor, spearheaded the improvement effort, with the completed church home seen as a town credit.
The State Mining Department reports Ohio mined 84 million tons in 1912. Belmont county led with 12.262 million, Jefferson 6 million, and Hocking 4.5 million tons. Operators forecast a record 88 to 40 million tons for 1918.
The Stonelick township Patterson commencement will be held at Favrer's hall in Owensville on June 21. Bix graduates are billed to appear. Music will be furnished by the Batavia orchestra. Miss Mary Marsh will be in charge of the exercises.
The Ohio hunting license must be obtained from the Clerk of Courts and expires on December 31 each year. Licenses cost 1.26 dollars with 1.00 going to the Fish and Game Commission and 0.25 to the Clerk of Courts. Non residents pay 16.00 dollars. Landowners may hunt without a license on their own land. Licenses may be issued any time and must be renewed yearly after December 31.
Local records list numerous bills approved including payments to F M Kain Burl Jordan W H Stanage Co Barrett Bros J O Ginnings J Malott and others for services like bridges stone laying lumber and medical care. Also noted are jury commissions and expenditures by Ex farm and probate judge with items such as boarding prisoners publishing notices and bridge repairs.
County commissioners advertised for three bridges and eleven culverts on the Cincinnati and Chillicothe pike from Milford to Perintown in Miami township. Bids opened last Friday with four contractors applying. Terrill & Walker won the contract for 1900 dollars as a whole after evaluating parts, while engineer Chas F. Clark will be paid five dollars per day for time worked, citing flood-related expenses and questioning the need for extra staff.
Attorney General Hogan and other lawyers say the blind pension law rests on a weak basis and may be invalid. Some 60 applications have been filed with the probate court. If upheld the program would require a large fund to aid widows with children. childless widows excluded. The ruling could affect population goals as enlistment needs grow. Local resident William Morris reports kidney and bladder relief from Foley Kidney Pills after years of ailment. A. U. Nash.
L. L. Johnson of Xenia has purchased W. R. Walker’s insurance business and Frank Davis Jr.’s home in Batavia. He plans to occupy the Davis property by July with a transfer of business duties to himself. Johnson and his wife are welcomed to Batavia.
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A brass and iron sanitary drinking fountain donated by Senator W. F Roudebush was installed last week and is now in great demand. Operated by foot pedal, it releases water about two inches high and directs overflow to the sewer. A separate Main Street fountain will serve horses dogs and other animals.
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