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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1927
Page
8
Community items include sales of lime cement radios and coal, visits by locals from Xenia Dayton and Hamilton, church and missionary meeting plans, school board piano purchase, and upcoming sermons. Notables: Ella Lane's winter return, Misses Kennedy guests, Miss Belle Marsh visit, Earl Bunn in Cincinnati, Fred Crosswell kin, and Red Cross notes.
Bert Wilson announces a farm sale 8 miles north of Batavia and 1 mile south of Owensville on Owensville pike. Sale includes 12 head cattle, 8 Holstein heifers, 1 Jersey bull calf herd, 6 brood sows with pigs, equipment, tools, farm machinery, and household goods. Auction April 4 at 9 a.m. Usual terms. Auctioneers A M Ellis. Lunch served on ground.
John Jones of Williamsburg will sell Saturday April 2 at 1 oclock speed time harness plows hoes forks buck saws porch wing and fine chickens household goods. Terms cash. Mart Townsley auctioneer.
Callon P M Rapp operates a truck service in Batavia Ohio offering moving and hauling of stock from his home at 118 Store. Phone 177.
Miss Jeanette Nichols visits home from college for spring vacation as county residents report severe rat overrun in flood prone areas. Robert Titus, a prosperous farmer from Brushy Fork, loses livestock to the infestation. Titus along with neighbor T H Riggs and his sons, aided by a dog, killed 189 rats in a single crib in about two hours last week, with many left to retreat to higher ground.
The Clover Progressive Farm Woman's Club met March 16 with 15 members and families present for a guest evening of readings songs and comedy. Ella Margaret Hartmetz 58 died March 6 at her Milford home. born Higginsport Ohio she lived a life of Christian service and leaves husband Charles Hartmetz six children seven grandchildren and many relatives. Services held March ? Milford M E church conducted by Rev Schwab with Rev Deaton assistance. Interment Milford cemetery.
The Paderewski Club will host an evening of piano and student performances by Mrs. Roy Maddox's pupils on Thursday March 31 1927 at 8 30 in Summerside M E church The program includes The Sick Doll Cast of Characters and nine piano solos plus three songs with a free will offering.
A Masonic Lodge building in Owensville narrowly escaped total destruction after a Saturday afternoon blaze. A roof section was damaged, with about 500 dollars in losses. Miss Madge Blythe discovered the fire and raised the alarm, and prompt action saved the structure.
Plant pathologists from Ohio State University are in southern Ohio fruit districts studying apple scab and timing sprays. The program uses eight day forecasts and expert leaf checks to warn growers of infection periods. The service, offered through the Farm Bureau in Batavia, is open to all and may be broadcast on WLW. Also notice a repeat St Patrick event at Glen Este school on April 2 after high turnout March 17.
The town council street committee plans summer work to place streets in good condition and open gutters for surface water drainage. Repairs involve scarifying, ridging, rolling, and paving with tarvia, by Pringle and Buerkle, to keep Batavia streets in good shape for another year.
P M RAPP offers American Beauty Electric washer and wringer for 85 dollars and Eclipse Electric washer and wringer for 75 dollars, both below regular 125 dollar price in Batavia Ohio.
The fragment lists agricultural items for sale and bids including cabbages, corn, oats, and pasture stock. It mentions buyers and sellers such as Garver A. Kuok in Goshen and Norfolk style references, with notes on price per hundredweight and wood, likely part of a local farm market or auction column.
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