Clermont Courier The Batavia Ohio Editor Fortney Publishes
The Clermont Courier based in Batavia Ohio publishes under editor and publisher Jerald B Fortney. The paper founded in 1836 offers subscriptions at 1.50 for six months and 1 year mailing.
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1946
Page
4
The Clermont Courier based in Batavia Ohio publishes under editor and publisher Jerald B Fortney. The paper founded in 1836 offers subscriptions at 1.50 for six months and 1 year mailing.
Washington announces 5000 surplus autos trucks and tractors will be sold exclusively to veterans within two months. War Assets Administration touts progress while critics urge a simpler system to speed sales and reduce costs, noting delays and lineups after the war.
Clermont County Commissioners met in adjourned session on Monday April 29 1946 in Batavia with members Sam Ausman Manly A Hill and Homer L Remley present Bills were approved and warrants issued to county treasurer for numerous vendors and services The report highlights farm visit to Elmer and Ruth Norris Williams burg Township and their GI farming guidance including soil testing pasture rotation lime and fertilizer practices and a high yield clover field with lessons for ex servicemen considering farming
The Batavia High School hosted the annual Junior Senior Banquet with a menu of ham potatoes salad and vegetables and a 9 pm Prom in the auditorium. Walter Elsman and Nancy Kincaid led class programs while Campus Owls from Oxford provided music and Kenneth Urmston danced. Many students attended after parties and local residents were noted.
Ministers of Clermont County are invited to a 7 p m session at Amelia Methodist Church on May 3 called by Rev I E Jenkins Batavia temporary chairman to discuss matters of concern to all clergy.
The Cleveland Farmers' Club conducts a yearly contest on better farming methods. The Awards Committee inspected Ed Saxton's farm near Goshen and Lloyd Murrel's farm near Williamsburg. Members include Max Riddle, Arthur Dawson, Cloyd Hummel, Louis Mellen, Allen Coad and others.
The Ohio Conservation Commission certified condemnation on 177 acres owned by E C Austin for a 700 acre Cowan Creek lake in Clinton County. The panel postponed appropriations but endorsed federal state conservation apprenticeship plans and Pittman Robertson projects, with further actions set for May 10.
Ohio Conservation Commission chair Emory Beetham announced a June 13 hearing in the State Office Building Columbus. Farmers and sportsmen from seven conservation districts will share views on seasons bag limits and other hunting rules from earlier county hearings. Proposals from representatives will be refined at the June 14 commission meeting with few changes anticipated.
The Summerside Methodist Church Woman's Society of Christian Service will hold a covered dish luncheon at noon on Thursday May 2 with business at 1 30 led by Mrs Carl Lang The devotional topic The Children and the Peace will be presented by Mrs George Nash Hostesses are Mrs William Gray and Mrs O W Mc Bride
Rangers and others are asked to assemble in the Court House assembly room Batavia at 8 p m on Monday May 6 to reorganize The County Central Executive Committee.
A brief notated payment of 125 GC recorded for the Dog and Kennel Fund under Clarence Seibert. The entry lists Shaw as payee and Geo Bayha as recipient or related party, with the amount 125 referenced in the fund’s ledger.
Batavia Church of Christ schedules a May revival from the 12th to the 26th with services at 8 p.m. led by Rev. L Edsil Dale and musical leadership by Ralph Doornette assisted by Noble Tribble. The church marks one year since its founding, originally meeting at the Douglas home in Olive Branch before moving to its Spring and Water streets building.
Bids to be opened May 14 for a $23 000 road improvement project in Clermont County. The plan covers grading paving and constructing a continuous steel beam bridge with concrete deck over Big Indian Creek on the Point Pleasant Felicity Feesburg road. Completion date set for November 31 1946.
Unemployment payments to veterans and others under GI Bill provisions and state unemployment compensation climbed 21 percent from February to March, reaching a record 13,218,000 dollars. This marks the highest monthly total in the history of the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation.
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