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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1909
Page
8
The Courier announces a limited time specie offer with Cincinnati papers including Courier and Weekly Gazette, 185. Courier and Daily Post, 1 year for 360. Courier and Daily Times-Star, 1 year for 276. Courier and New York World Thrice-a-week edition for 4. OB
Monday brings the coldest spell of the season and a Batavia Foundry Company urging iron repairs. A 94 year old citizen walked eight miles in a day, while a 94 year old story reflects local endurance. The late Dr. Suno home at Fourth and North is for sale by the executor W B Ports corner Hermon avenue and Valley street Dayton Ohio. Weather conditions affect brick yard work and hunting reports note a good squirrel season.
Batavia resident Mrs Jennie Corbin will move to Amelia with her partner Mrs Bert Hantington and sell her Batavia home. Local church attendees hosted a reception for the new pastor Rev Wagner and his family with about sixty people praising his work.
Frightful fate averted says a severe knee cut would have crippled the narrator were it not for Arnica Salve. Notices report Mrs Addie Nichols visiting Batavia relatives, calls for old papers to aid Presbyterian relief, and updates on Dr Chas Belt’s typhoid recovery. Afton sale announced by G W Schwirring on Nov 8 of farm stock and implements. Auctioneer H R Sweet.
Families visit in Judge Parrott’s absence in Panama. Eastern Star preparations for Cincinnati Grand Chapter, and Daughters of Rebecca plan Hallowe en celebration. Dr Belt’s new home nearing completion. Local visits include Mrs Zou Hunt and Mrs Mollie Rogers. Ray Applegate sells repair shop and joins Cincinnati auto school. Batavia Woman's Club set to meet Saturday afternoon. Post meeting reminders and weather note.
The Burley tobacco pooling in the district closed last week with about 70 percent pledged. Acreage pooled per county is not available, but districtwide signing is reported to reach 150,000 acres. Buyers have been active and the recent ruling price per pound is noted in this county and Brown. Official figures are promised to satisfy all parties.
The list notes Halloween on October 31, Election Day November 2, Thanksgiving November 25, two eclipses on November 26 and December 12, and the Tri-township Farmers Institute at New Richmond December 9-10. Winter begins officially December 22 with some early wagon unloading already observed.
A Warren County report notes thousands of newly hatched quails near Lebanon wandering on frozen ground. Such young birds have not been seen this early in the season, suggesting possible milder weather ahead though more frosts may arrive.
Socially Pittsburg is pictured as a vast pie with a thin filling of middle class struggles. Captain James Whitney recovers health after illness. Batavia schools flourish under Prof Opaitz with Opaitz’s staff. Uhatley Sprintsman resigns as Democrat foreman and Richard Woorster replaces him as printer.
Asia accounts for 32 percent of the land surface and 820 million people. America makes up 28 percent with 125 million residents. Africa 22 percent with 130 million. Europe 7 percent with 80 million. Australia 6 percent with 5 million.
Pleasant to take, Mountain Blood Elixir claims to cure blood, kidney and liver troubles. The ad touts dry form packages making six pints, claims safety and harmlessness, with a special offer of half price for 50 cents and postpaid delivery from Mountain Medicine Co in Plevant Plain, Ohio.
Certification from the Ohio county court notes the order fixing court times for the Fifth Judicial District in 1910. It states the official seal and signature, dated October 1000, at Batavia Ohio.
Peter C. Barker notes strong Dutch influence in Hudson Valley villages. He cites language meaning shifts from Dutch help to cleaning cloth and describes historic water power used for churns and later for modern appliances.
A flat dweller confronts a courteous janitor about persistent leaks that have drenched the kitchen for a year. He offers help with repairs while she insists on leaving the damage as a refusal to bore the neighbors with repairs.
A young mother, shocked by religious instruction given to her five year old, sees her daughter fixate on a Madonna and Child at the library wall. The girl then asks in a shop, What is God doing in the ten cent store, revealing a troubling impression about sacred images as commodities.
In the Paris area holiday options are few and costly. The piece notes milk, fruit, and vegetables are sent to towns, pasture is scarce, and country life offers limited cheap family escapes. A Barbizon butcher jokes he is the lone local option and challenges customers to find cheaper meat elsewhere.
The passage notes shipping American goods from New York to Trebizond costs about a cent and a half per pound, a distance of 5,000 miles. From Trebizond to Tabriz the cost is 15 cents per pound for 600 miles. It concludes Fulton did not foresee how his invention would influence cheap transport across these routes.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a provocative exchange about reviving arena sport in town. A speaker envisions gathering locals for a grand event, using stark language to describe the plan. The piece frames the dialogue as a bold, controversial vision for the community’s athletic future.
Mrs. Jane Corbin departs tomorrow for Amelia to spend the winter with her niece, Mrs. Bert Huntington. Captain Homer Glancy is expected to move into his new residence around the first of the year.
A plain notice announces economical meals and lodging by the week day or meal at 20 cents per bed or meal. It lists good home cooking and a feed stable connected, with location described as a square and a half above the town hall on Main Street, Miss Kars Erion.
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