Local notices and social tidbits from Batavia Ohio area
May 8 edition notes subscriptions and prices for Courier and Weekly Gazette and other papers. Social updates include Lafe Young aiding Sun, Walter Riley hosting a guest from Norwood, visits by Groves and Gelvin family friends, and Terrace Park Country Club opening. Church notices mark Mother's Day service with white flower. Community updates cover local travel, sales staff, Lemmon Larkin car purchase, and local business and medical ad blurbs.
Oklahoma Land Boom Promoted By Alfalfa Profits
G A Nichols argues Oklahoma offers vast tilled acreage and rising crops. He highlights alfalfa as a highly profitable cash crop with example yields near Canadian Valley and notes climate advantages and expanding land values for farmers.
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Editon Courier
Alleghany Mountains
Rockeys
Oklahoma
Iown
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
America
Oklahoma City
Canadian Valley
Union
North
G. A. Nichols
G A R Owensville Decoration Day Events Planned
The G A R Owensville will meet at Odd Fellows cemetery at 8 a m on Decoration day to decorate then return to Owensville to decorate other cemeteries and attend exercises at Favret's hall. Full program next week. By E C Patchell, committee.
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Owensville
Odd Fellows
Favret
E.C. Patchell
Wheat Crop In Ohio Faces Poor Prospects In 1912
The report notes Ohio wheat in poor condition at 61 percent with 16 percent in producers hands and snow delaying fields. Prices listed show wheat 96 cents and corn 1 cent per bushel. fruit prospects are down with peach damage common. Plowing and spring work are slowed by unfavorable weather versus a year ago.
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Ohio
Boarding at 25 Cents a Day or Meal Nearby
Miss KatTE ERION offers boarding by week day or meal at 25 cents per bed or meal. A good home cook is provided with a feed stable connected. Location described as square and a half above town hall on Main Street.
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Town Hall
Main Street
Katte Erion
Obituary notices from Greenberry Ohio and Salina Kansas
Obituary notices report the death of Albertine Jenkins born near Williamsburg Ohio on April 14 1873 she joined the M E church at Afton aged 16 and married Wilbur F Ducknall on December 31 1900 She died April 25 1912 at her Salina Kansas home leaving a husband two daughters a widowed mother a sister a brother and other relatives The second obituary notes A J D Seth Hutchinson born May 30 1888 near Greenberry Ohio died April 24 1912 at his parents home He joined the M E church and is survived by parents a sister five brothers and many friends The page also references a Springfield Ohio note about W Riley of 250 York St and local civic items including a committee plan and a temperance related report all reflecting local community losses and reflections
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Albertine Jenkins
Williamsburg
Clermont County
Ohio
M. E
Afton
Wilbur F. Ducknall
Salina
Kansas
Vesta Fern
Elizabeth
Mary Glancy
Harvey E. Jenkins
Sarah Young Rhoades
Anna Jenkins Dennis
Barth
Heaved
Seth T. Hutchinson
John
Eliza Hutchinson
Greenberry
Brother Shriver
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THE
Clermont Courier
Batavia, Ohio
Courier and
Weekly Gazette
Weekly Enquirer
Cincinnati Post
Cincinnati Times Star
Smyth Brothers
Lafe Young
Felicity
Walter Riley
Norwood
Gertrude
Florence Gelvin Gremisines
Felicity Last
E. Church
Vender
Wi. L. White
Ethel
Virginia
W. §. Bechtel
Clyde Lindsey
Prudence Bunn
Cincinnati
Lemon Larkin
Flanders
Jones & van Horn
Terrace Park Country Club
Len Ehrnsberger
East End
Joseph Marshall
Walnut Hills
Dean
Presbyterian Church
David
Drenan
This Place
American Type Foundry
Dr. Thomas
Eclectic Oil
Batavia Woman’s Club
Judge Davis
George Lee
Kentucky
Lee
Chamberlain
Leyal Druggists
Will Teal
Sheriff Teal
R. T
Mrs
Howard Lockwood
Newark
Thomas de Dodsworth
Fair Oak
Ife Iance
David Wyatt
Fern Bank
Chas.itchell, Tae
Ing Oklahoma
Rench Postal and Telegraph Service
Farmer’s Loose Leaf Tobacco Warehouse Co
Carlisle
Fletcher
Nyal
A.S. K
Bechtol’s Pharmacy
Batavia
New York
Able
E. R. Ferguson
Union Trust Building
W. G. Fagin
Amelia, Ohio
Bon Ami
Scott’s Drug Store
Bethel
J. S. Hulick
Perience
Jas. Hammond
Crop Report
Bell Telephone Co
B.H
Gee. W. Riley
York St
Bprifield
Wotey
Taney
Giermont
E Vu
Lower Main Street
Kaintuck
Wilhiamsville
Claud Jackson
Withamseville, Ohio
Hartman's Tailoring Establishment
Triumph
Red River
Rapp & Wolf
Tundersl
State of
O. Kbarns
W R. Walker
Batavia Building & Loan Company
Foley
Lizzie Lewis Kelly
Ella Lewis Williams
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Edwin ©. Ely
Josephine Hoston
Shaw
Slade
Hulick
George Hoston
Win O
Ely
Josephine Oston
Epwin UG
Baoo Obi Bagby
RT. Davim
Sohn Morris
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