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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1939
Page
8
The Clermont Courier notes weekly publication by Clermont Publishing with a one year run. Mentions partner papers the Cincinnati Post Courier and Times-Star and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Subscriptions priced at $1.00 and 4.25 rates listed.
Mrs Gayland Weaver returns from Florida. Mrs Martha Reed of Cincinnati visits Batavia friends. Emma Brown and Miss Jean Geiger spend Sunday in Hamilton. Miss Betty Wilson visits Columbus. Barbara Rush hosts club. birthday and bridge parties noted. Judge and Mrs Hugh Nichols return from Florida with son and daughter in law. multiple visits by Misses Spencer Deter May Ashburn Jamieson Taylor and others. First dial phone installed in Warren Liston’s Batavia home. Funeral for Chas Slye at Bloom Rose. several trips to Madison Indiana Tulsa Oklahoma Salem Indiana and Washington DC referenced.
The Batavia P T A will hold its regular meeting at the school house Thursday night at 8 P M. President Mrs Gerald Iles will lead the business session. Paul K Moore will discuss fire drills in schools and Harvey Kerns will address social service topics. The Wilburforce Glee Club canceled its appearance. A social period will follow.
The American Legion and Ladies Auxiliary sponsor a March 17 dance in Bethel School Auditorium with Dick Alexander and his Troubadors providing music. Dancing runs 9 PM to 1 AM with 35 cents admission per person and games and entertainment for non dancers.
Cromwell Publications invites poets to submit work for a $400 prize and inclusion in the 1939 Rhythm and Rhyme anthology honoring Washington’s Golden Jubilee. Open to published and unpublished pieces up to 28 lines, postmarked by May 1, 1939. Entries to Cromwell Publications Jersey City.
The elimination of 30 000 aliens from WPA relief rolls proceeds under a congressional mandate written into the appropriation bill that extends WPA funding through June 30.
A national anti cancer campaign urges prompt action after early diagnosis. The American Society for the Control of Cancer notes up to 75 000 yearly deaths could be saved with early treatment. The Women’s Field Army led by Mrs. Clarence T. Telfair begins a district drive in Clermont Clinton Butler Fayette and Hamilton counties during April.
Public sale scheduled for Saturday, March 18 offers household goods, farming tools, cows, horses, hogs, hay, feed, and 300 bushels of corn. Located Route 50, 2 miles east of Monterey. Conducted by Robert Brothers.
Nichols Hatchery in Rockmart Georgia advertises Reds Rocks Leghorns and assorted pullets with prices per hundred and C O D options. It also seeks acreage buyers offering six dollars per acre for land in Ohio and Ohio towns. the note stresses no agent role and a return to country living.
Sunday school at Batavia M E Church led by Walter J Bauer and Lenton services planned at 7 30 p m with the topic We Need God. Morning worship at 10 80. Choir practice 8 15 pm. Franklin D Morrison leads at the Franklin D Morrison church service with Union service at 7 30 pm and Lenton service at 7 30. CIC meets in church after service. The Ants Cant Class to meet at Mrs E 8 Long home Thursday night. Bring a towel stamped with M G.
Ohio State University welcomes a record 13 200 students for a 10 day break. Clermont county attendees include Amelia Margaret Trotter Batavia Mary Gunderley Donald Hutchinson Virgil Tes William Singleton Betty Wilson Bethel Edith South Branch Hill Ruth Hoffman Goshen Marion Doyle Loveland Lawrence Fannon Robert Sattler Milford Arthur Davis Ralph Hodges Carvil Smalley Merrill Rusher Moscow Charles Wildey Williamsburg Carl Foster Harris van Elton Johnson Don Pre-
Governor Bricker named a board of review and an administrator to lead the reorganized State Unemployment Compensation Bureau. Verner E. Metcalf chairs the board with Walter Mackey and W. T. Roberts as members, Herschel C. Atkinson named Administrator. Bureau staff expected to drop by about 200.
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