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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1932
Page
8
John King of New Richmond will be tried for manslaughter tomorrow for shooting his wife about four weeks ago. His wife is recovering. Garrison, who shot his brother at Felicity last fall, was taken to the penitentiary Tuesday and given a 20 year sentence.
Clermont County leaders gathered at the Odd Fellows Temple to form the Clermont County Baseball League. Eight teams committed, with plans to grow to twelve. Key organizers included Frank Frey, H. C. Coleman, Roland Hudson, Louis Waggal, and more. A next meeting is set for March 7 at the Griffith clubrooms.
The article notes walnut shell staining and suggests wearing rubber gloves to prevent stains. It lists a March 6 showing at Batavia Theater featuring Buck Jones and Dorothy Revier in The Avenger. Also reports influenza like illness reducing Hillsboro school attendance and describes La Maceda basketball success and upcoming schedules.
Garden work dominated last week with onions radishes lettuce beets planted and tomato pots set. Early transplants are ready as weather improves while lawn grass is cut and flowers bloom signaling spring’s near approach.
Ohio Farm Bureau unveils a Farm Business Analysis Service to help farmers adapt to chaotic economic conditions. Members submit receipts and investments for a year, then experts including Ohio State University economists analyze credit, insurance, marketing, taxation, mortgages and production issues to provide targeted advice.
Walter M. Rauscher of Clermont county plans to seek the State Senate nomination from the Second Fourth District covering Butler Warren Brown and Clermont counties. The decision follows the death of Bacon who had filed for State Representative and could change again in time.
At Batavia court house tobacco growers plan a March 9 meeting with County Agent Wilson Prom promising a strong speaker lineup. John Slipher and A L Pierstorff of Ohio State University will discuss disease and insect control and producing high quality tobacco with a focus on a new one year contract pool for 1932. A large turnout is anticipated amid debate on pool terms and recommendations to the Burley Association board.
Clermont County Sunday schools plan their fourteenth annual Young People's Division conference at Bethel Baptist Church on March 5. Delegates from across the county will join Rev A O Hierpe Mrs Howard Perin and others for discussions on Christian Citizenship, with a banquet recreation hour and a post conference open service. Registration is 1.50 including badge program meal.
Miss Marguerite Gatch of Milford learned her brother Frank M. Gatch was killed in an auto crash in Bowling Green Indiana. She found him alive and well when she arrived. The thief died in the wreck after stealing Gatchs car.
Mr and Mrs John Callon celebrated sixty years of marriage on Washingtons birthday. He is a Civil War veteran and they enjoy good health. Two daughters and families attended. a third daughter Mrs Percy Myers of Cincinnati could not come due to illness. Attendees included relatives from Carthage Ohio Owensville and Wiggineville. A funeral service was held for John E Brown of Mt Victory, a Stone Lick native who moved there 40 years ago with his wife Bila Boggs. He was 63 and survived by a wife four married daughters two sons and fourteen grandchildren.
The Crawford Frame Dry Goods Co. hosts a quilt show this week drawing admirers from across the district. The event ends Saturday March 5 with seventeen prizes to be awarded. Batavia people will be represented by local quilt enthusiasts.
Bell Telephone operations move back from Batavia to Williamsburg in a modern brick building owned by O. M. Curry the county superintendent. The Main street site offers improved working conditions and Batavia laments the loss.
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