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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1909
Page
8
One month offer lists annual rates for Courier and Weekly Gazette 1 year 135, Courier and Daily Post 1 year 260, Courier and Daily Times-Star 1 year 276, Courier and New York World Thrice-in-week edition rent 165.
Local items mention Mre Blanche Rice and company guests of J L Larkin, medical tonics advertised including Foley's Honey and Tar, Burdock's Blood Bitters, and Dean's Ointment. Reports include visits by H A Moore and wife, Mrs Nannie Smith, and others. icy conditions, church services, social visits, and community updates on farms, banking, and sports.
A stock company is forming to buy cure pack and ship pork and handle fish oysters and related goods. The plan targets wholesale and retail sales with local supply and a ready rural market for cured meats. Transportation improvements cited as a factor in renewed prospects. Hawkins Family Reunion Held at Amelia with fifty relatives attending and officers elected for next year.
The writer laments the quick departure of summer noting faded roses quiet birds and dwindling harvests. They recall fresh table delights corn tomatoes cantaloupes and a last load of watermelons praised for sweetness and chill as autumn nears with hopeful longing for an endless summer.
The article notes a rare star sighting visible at daybreak near Thanksgiving and Christmas. It claims the star appears only every 500 years, will be bright and large, and may recur five hundred years from now with future papers retelling the same story.
On Sunday evening October 10 at home of O B Cain in Mainville Rev Fulton performed the M E H ceremony uniting Rose Goudy daughter of T B Sears and James Bowman. The bride wore a white princess gown with lace trimmings. This marks the fifth daughter of the family to marry under Rev Fulton.
Paul Esselborn of Portsmouth, indicted for illegal liquor selling, filed an affidavit in Scotia county court claiming Judge Blair biased on temperance. The judge, known for impartial rulings, declines to relinquish the bench, asserting his integrity.
At the annual meeting of the C G P stockholders last week the old board of directors was chosen for another term. Officers elected include President Henry A Heinze of Detroit, Vice President W A Thompson of Georgetown, Secretary and Treasurer A B C Henry, General Manager B E W White, and General Superintendent B K H Hitner.
The Clermont county branch of the Burley Tobacco Society elected officers for the coming year. President OC Chapman, Vice President James A Gates, and Secretary Fred Holgington were chosen amid strong voter turnout. The group expects to dominate tobacco crop control in the county this year. A separate note reports George Anderson of Hamilton receiving $175 from Accident Co. after hand injuries while working at State Store Co.
Those having books for soliciting tobacco for the pool of 1009 are requested to bring the same to Felicity Ohio at 10 oclock a.m. on Wednesday October 20. O C Chapman president Board of Control Clermont county. D Rev Middleton formerly pastor of several charges in this county Batavia being one of them was greeted by two large audiences at the M E church last Sunday delivering two sermons of extraordinary merit. Old parish officers were sejoiced to meet him. He was entertained during his visit at the home of J R Woodlief.
Describes a Batavia home on Broadway with eight rooms and bath on the first floor finished in hardwood. Features cement cellar, furnace, electric lights, water upstairs and down, fine lawn, shade and fruit trees, a full lot for a garden and a small barn. Offered at a bargain price.
Thomas Gaddis of Amelia was struck by an electric traction car while driving a horse on the Ohio pike Friday. The horse was killed. Gaddis was not injured. In Amelia, two mules and six horses have been killed by cars in the past six weeks.
In a London drawing room a wealthy widow recalls a winter tour in the sunny south and asks if they went to Rome. Her daughter confirms with a memory of silk stockings bought there. A second snippet notes a bluffing remark about a station restaurant owner’s death and a dismissive sandwich quip.
By week or day at 20 cents per bed or meal. Good home cooking and feed stable connected. Located a square and a half above town hall on Main Street. Miss Kate Erion. BM oe.
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