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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1947
Page
8
The Batavia Fire department to demonstrate at Town Hall at 7 30 p m. Boy Scouts organize a paper drive. May 24 Paint Up Day. May 25 Church Day. May 26 Health Day. May 27 Flower and Garden Day. May 28 Pick-Up Day. May 29 Inspection Day. Weekly garbage collection continues Mondays and Thursdays.
Brown County fairgrounds Georgetown hosts the 1947 American Legion Carnival and Horse Show June 5 6 and 7 with 100 plus fine horses including jumpers hunters ponies and Tennessee walking horses. Judges include Edmund Martin W J Mulvihill Charles Gardner. Evening sessions feature entertainment by the Lucky Penny Trio Ernie Lee and the Girls of the Golden West. Stakes range up to 300 for various classes.
Descendants of Asa Adam and Elijah Newton whose father settled near Edenton are invited to a full day family reunion at Sharon Woods on Sunday June 22. A basket dinner will be served.
The Ohio River Division Engineer offers for sale and removal two buildings at Ohio River Dam No 34 Ohio. A frame cottage 26 by 30 feet with four rooms a bath basement and two lavatories and a small shed 8 by 14 feet will be available for inspection May 26 to May 30 from 8 30 am to 3 30 pm daily. Sealed bids open June 2 1947 at 10 am in Cincinnati Ohio.
The Batavia Health Day calls residents and business leaders to curb flies and rats by removing breeding sites and using tight garbage containment and screens. The effort aims to reduce disease risks linked to intestinal illnesses peaking in late summer and fall. Bethel students earned Clermont County awards with Robert Carter first and several others honorable mention.
Frakn W Weaver Post No 237 American Legion of Batavia plans its annual Memorial Service with Eddie Livengood as committee chair. The post conducts services in nine cemeteries across Union Batavia and Stonelick townships. full timing details will be announced next week as organizations are invited to participate in honoring fallen service members.
Walter G. Scott, an army captain from Washington, D. C., was fined by Mayor A. C. Munden on a Monday evening charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was picked up on Route 50 near Owensville after pulling off the road to rest.
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