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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1947
Page
6
The Clermont Courier is published weekly on Thursdays by the Clermont Publishing Company in Batavia Ohio with Jerald B Fortney serving as editor and publisher. The statement notes a price of 1 00 cents.
House Republicans led by Edward O. McCowen push labor reform passed 308 to 107, aiming to balance bargaining power, outlaw closed shops, curb strikes, and require union filings while retaining company wide bargaining and local union rights. The measure foes include jurisdictional strikes and anti-trust provisions apply to unions.
A Milford Ohio 4-H pig club formed by Clermont County youths with 130 attendees. Officers elected include Lloyd Berger president Eddie Griffin vice president and Dave Patchell secretary with other leaders and advisors named. Members must raise a pig to show at Owensville Fair and can receive financial aid. next meeting May 8 at Feldman’s Farm and Home Center.
Joe Middler of New Richmond was elected president of the Edu Rec Club with Richard Bainum Williamsburg as vice president Betty Creager Lorado secretary Paul Berger Milford treasurer Helen Wiederhold Cogadale and Elma Balzhiser Williamsburg named as news editors The group aids rural recreation and leadership development The club meets last Saturday each month A May 3 covered dish supper is planned at 7 30 p m at Newtonsville school due to Pomona Grange on the 26th
Mr Davis Furnas and Ellis Sturm of the Lebanon National Farm Loan Association attended the Federal Land Bank celebration in Louisville. Representatives from Ohio Indiana Kentucky and Tennessee joined to mark 30 years of service with 180000 loans totaling 450000 dollars to farmers across four states.
The House approved sixteen measures with little or no debate. They include penalties for firing in hotels and hospitals from careless disposal of cigarettes, and provisions for license revenue allocation, state guard acknowledgments, school supply donations, and insurance reforms. The Senate also eased enforcement on liquor near fairs and orphanages, added public official trial provisions, and adjusted taxes and pension systems while modernizing the General Code.
Looking backward from The Courier files notes that after counting April votes in townships only three favored the poor house while ten opposed it, so no further action will be taken. Also records the Clermont County Teachers Association meeting set for May 1 with speaker lineup, officers, and executive committee.
Twenty five years ago last Thursday the county marked General Grant's birthday as a legal holiday. Schools and business houses closed and thousands gathered on the Ohio River bank to honor the event at Pt. Pleasant with thoughts of the Civil War era.
Deaths include James W Welch of New Richmond on April 16 1947 with services April 18. Hessie Devinney nee Sellers of California Kentucky former resident, funeral April 20 at Mentor Baptist Church. Warren E Newman of New Richmond son of Helen Newman Felicity Ohio, funeral April 24 at Lew F White Memorial Funeral Home.
Harold L Lunist of Pine Moody Bible Plate Chicago presents a Sunday School lesson. The piece is released through the Western Newspaper Union.
May 4 lesson focuses on selected scripture readings approved by the Interal Council of Religious Education. The material is used by permission and covers spiritual topics, meditation guidance, and teacher prompts for classroom discussion.
A sermon on kingship in First Kings chapter twelve traces Rehoboam’s failed leadership as the ten tribes secede. The text contrasts wise restraint with arrogant refusals and highlights the dangers of heedless pride guiding rulers and nations. The piece ends with a hopeful note on the coming Prince of Peace.
Poem fragment describes twilight in a small town with imagery of birds, leaves, a moon, and homey scents. It mentions Alma Robinson Higbee and Elizbeth Coatsworth as poets with notes about original and reprint poems. Submission instructions give names and addresses for contributions.
A devotional prayer asks for divine help in plowing sowing and farming tasks during a challenging year. It requests strength for horses and guidance for the season ahead. The text emphasizes turning to God in need and hope for successful cultivation.
A columnist mocks baseball as entertainment and cites Mahalmah Ruark as saying the sport hosts unpleasant people. The piece also notes reader reactions and pokes fun at department-store dry goods headlines as the column closes with stray product lines and a playful jab at tipping C&O employees.
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