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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1929
Page
8
Tax books are complete for June 1929 collection with Real Estate and Personal Tax same as December 192s and Special Price Tax not payable in June. On July 21, 1929 a 10 percent penalty will be added for all unpaid taxes. Return remittance with statements mailed to you.
The Courier reports varied Batavia area happenings new relatives visiting in Dayton and Felicity wedding notice awaiting signature local shop promotions on June 29 and July 3 Firestore items include sales at P M Rapp Fuhrs and J B Millers Bakery garden festival Clover ladies festival and Epworth Heights fiddlers contest later notices of births deaths and local visits with several names and places such as Batavia Williamsburg Williamsburg Ohio Greenford Madisonville and Bethesda hospital noted along with community events and civic group activities.
Notice records a fireworks prohibition with limited holiday window and lists numerous marriage license applicants and estate matters. Names include Julian Reynolds Mabel Balser Ray Hurdle Mary A Bee Herbert Broontall Marie Belle McCoy Leslie Eyler Sarah Snell Clifford Vath Anne Heheman John Garrison Mary Grant Harry Nordman Gertrude Shugert Rose Dreier Geo Hill Eva Divine Belle Hoggan executrix James Bunnell appraisers and several executors and administrators with bond and estate notes appearing throughout.
A series of RE transfers recorded including Clara Goodhew to Clara Grannen a Laurel lot for $1 and numerous Pierce Township parcels totaling acres transferred between residents such as Kirgan, Powers, Longhouser, and Taylor with nominal consideration. Other transfers include Batavia Two and Franklin Two parcels among listed buyers and sellers.
Legacy deeds list multiple land transactions with names including Harry Hutson Marie Good and Lucien Thompson to The Pringle Construction Co. 6 acres in Batavia Two and 28 acres in Pierce Township. Others include Frank Crowe Arthur Schmidt and Highland County Bank John Goodwin acquiring various lots and acres for $1.
The column lists payments to relief, labor, drugs and supplies including Nash Pharmacy and Pringle Construction Co. for county road work and a surveyor authorized to plan 4000 yards of stone for road patches. John Glancy visits from Tennessee. Maple Grove social hosted by Mrs. Samuel Hughes with local clergy Roe Fox noting summer plans.
Frank Knauer a Batavia resident for many years died Thursday morning after a long illness. He served as assessor and councilman, was a Mason Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen member, a longtime mail carrier, and enjoyed strong community ties. Funeral held Saturday at 2 p.m. from his home with burial in Citizens cemetery.
June seventeenth county board session records payments and actions. Entries list labor, burial care, supplies, services, advertising, and relief disbursements for individuals and local firms. Amounts vary from small cents to several dollars, with multiple names such as Sam Ausman L M Bredwell Katherine Booth and Joshua Kilgore appearing among recipients.
Washington A tentative agreement has been reached between Director of Census W M Steuart and Ohio delegation members on the arrangement of Ohio districts for the 1930 census. Brown Clermont Adams and Highland counties form the 27th district with headquarters at Hillsboro. Clermont gets 27 and each will earn from 5 to 8 dollars per day. A month in rural districts and two weeks in cities.
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