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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1902
Page
5
Bethel and Laurel sections describe visits by Clarence Ulrey and others, family gatherings, infant death of the Flaughter child, property purchase by Charles Henning, and various local travels. Advertisements include Hall's Catarrh Cure and Dr King’s New Discovery, with regional remarks on festivals and church services.
The Soldiers Home visitors include John B Gallespie and family of Springfield Illinois. Dr Mott and family joined John B Gallispie Sr at Mt Pisgah for Mrs Gallispie's birthday. Spearing injured when a horse ran away. dislocated shoulder. Ida Wheeler visited Felicity. Windsor family moved into Bennett property. Edith Hunt visited Olive Branch. Rebecca Corbin to winter with Amelia relatives. Charles Gallispie and Mr Crosby from Cincinnati visiting relatives. Hattie Lindsley and son Carrol of Elmwood visiting J B Silcot. Mt Pisgah Lindale and Maee Nellie Butler’s Mt Holly schools and Nine Mile and Denham's Hill schools closed for Jennie Kirton funeral. Mrs George Croswell and Newport Kentucky visitors. Laura Merritt and granddaughter mentioned. South African store description by O R Lareen Bay Vila Sundays River, Cape Colony, in a valley nine miles from rail and twenty-five miles from town. local farmers' use of Chamberlain remedies cited. Beck's Pharmacy Indianapolis and Ella Hurley Cincinnati selling Chamberlain's Cough Remedy noted. Hazel Lindsley ill. Ella Winspear of Spain visited. Joseph Lindsley and family returned to Lindale from New Richmond. Maurice Denham and family of Warren Pennsylvania returned home after visiting.
Kidney and bladder remedy advertises Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a cure for lame back kidney and uric acid trouble. Readers may request a free sample bottle by mail and learn more in a booklet, with normal bottle sizes sold by druggists. The notice cites a medical trial background and promotes the product through a newspaper reader offer.
Ed Conover and wife attended the fall festival while progress on the electric rail between here and Fayetteville was begun last week. Florence Armstrong of Bloom Rose died and was buried, leaving two children. Wm Murphy family arrived here from Richmond Indiana. Various locals and visitors called on friends in Williamsburg and Batavia. An ad-promotional note praises Foley’s Honey and Tar for fall colds. An illness testimonial cites Dr King’s New Life Pills as life saving.
Community notes report deaths and visits with relatives in Cincinnati and Laurel, wedding announcements for Charles Gardner and Miss Adam Nichols, parish events at M E church and Monroe church, a wind storm damaging a barn, several travels and social calls, a case of paralysis treated with Pain Balm, and local ads. The piece mentions Mrs. Jenner, Mrs. Armstrong, Miss Myrtle Watt, and others among ongoing town life.
Sunday visits included Cornelius Thompson and Ennis Jones with relatives in Cincinnati. Mrs. Mildred Quinby of Mason called on relatives Monday. Mrs. Lib Grimes returned from South Lebanon after two months away. George Wood and wife visiting in Dayton and St. Marys with children. George Stock and wife from Murdock with Esty Halelton feel at home. Mrs. Hannah Cramer of Hughes visited relatives here. George Berger and wife of Grady visited his mother. Doan’s Ointment promoted as itch relief. Mrs. Will Fulton guest of Dr. Doan. Lena Penn of Xenia spent Sunday with parents. Miss Tillie and Rosella Stewart of Cincinnati visiting Florence Maphet’s. Aden Nash taking drug-store job at Cleves. Miss Cora Rader visiting Bethel. Mrs. Charles Ammon of Portsmouth visiting her mother Mrs. B. F. McCann. Miss Nellie Marshal home from Christ’s Hospital improving. James Waite and Mr. Carmen transacted business Saturday. Anna Saunders and Miss Albertine Kelly back from Cincinnati. Coffee at M E parsonage Friday night well received. John Kelly and family at Pt. Pleasant. Rev. and Mrs. Armacost hosted guests Charles Johnson and family of Batavia and Rev. Dr. E. J. Moore of Cincinnati. Moore’s Cincinnati address on Ohio anti saloon league work given at M E church. Angie Iretoo entertained Sunday.
Mrs. Armacost of Laurel and Mrs. Simmons of Cincinnati joined Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Armstrong and others from Carthage and Anderson for a last week visit. Epworth League plans a Japanese social at Willis Hall home Friday. Miss Ruth and Lillian Perkins returned from Cincinnati area trip after attending fall festival and Ben Hur.
Mrs Samuel K Smith of Hast Street Lebanon Ohio praises Dr A W Chases Nerve Pills for restoring nerves and easing back pain after sun stroke. The ad notes pills cost 50 cents a box from Dr A W Chase Medicine Co and dealers in Buffalo NY. Also reports Florence Armstrong died last Wednesday of tetanus leaving a husband two children and extended family.
Newtonsville scene features Frank Willard and family guests from Chicago, Dr. Washburn and son from Keenannah, and numerous locals visiting relatives. A fiftieth birthday surprise for Mrs. George Britain drew about sixty friends with baskets. Several residents planned travel to Decatur, Cincinnati, and Dayton while others hosted guests from New York City to Blanchester and Greenfield as community life continues with school progress and church events.
Public auction on October 1st 192 at 10 a m in Pierce Township Clermont County Ohio to sell 59.60 acres in survey No 4919. Property bounds include hedge fence line and Ohio Turnpike, appraised at 1200 dollars. Terms: half cash day of sale, one fourth in one year, final fourth in two years with 6 percent interest secured by mortgage. Albert Leeds administrator of Albina Sherman estate. Frazier Hicks attorneys. Sept 17 15.
Miss Mabel Hadley and Mrs. Ida Carlin shopped in Fayetteville. Frank Roaselett's rag pulling at Moore's Fork drew many locals. A large dinner at P. P. Hadley’s home honored his visiting son and daughters with pine-tree shade and long conversation among friends and relatives.
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