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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1917
Page
5
An advertisement claims Cham berlain's Tablets permanently cure indigestion enabling any food. It cites an example, Mr. J. Pominville of Stillwater Minnesota, who spent over $2,000 on medicines and treatments before being cured by the tablets.
The notice lists parishioners and visitors in the Toledo area including Rev. Wm. A. Tilford’s pastoral calls and dinner with OC. E. Wilson, Mrs. Dora Rapp visiting her sister in Felicity, Edith Schaible in St. Bernard visiting the Pinkham home, and several others traveling to Dayton, Columbus, Maywood, and Batavia. It also records a dental and insurance business presence and a fraud-free claim of Hall's Catarrh Cure with a sworn affidavit by Frank J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo in 1886.
Madisonville and Mason residents visited Mrs. Ella Hensell and family. Ed Hensell and Ralph Thompson families hosted guests. Red Cross plans a Fayret's hall event on November 17 for soldiers. Local notices mention visiting relatives and business in Cincinnati. Advertisements endorse Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and colds.
Mack Bartlett of Felicity with Miss Nellie Wrigglesworth wed in Augusta Kentucky on October 4. Thurman Hiles of Utopia and Miss Lillian King also married, with their brides’ mothers present. The couples returned home to lively serenades. Local friends and neighbors praised the unions.
Clarence Ludlow and family spent Sunday with A H Ludlow. Mrs Edith Brazier spent Sunday in Cincinnati. B Rose will move to Cincinnati this week. Mrs Sarah Weaver of Batavia spent Friday with Mrs Frank Brown. Mrs Cecil Rose and children spent Friday with Mrs Ruth Nash. G Bishop of Chicago is visiting Ed Herancourt and Perin spent Sunday with his a T Kincaid of Camp Sherman spent day and Sunday at home.
A long list of local households welcomed Sunday and weekend guests including the Raglands of Perintown, the Hunters of Pleasant Valley, the Hutchinsons, the Amiotts, and others. The note records social visits across J. K. White’s circle, with several families extending hospitality to relatives and friends in nearby towns.
Chillicothe residents hosted and visited relatives across nearby towns with Sunday calls and weekly club meetings. Names include Wilson, Eppert, Tone, Barrow, Behymer, and others visiting households in Nicholsville Perintown Clifton White Oak Amelia Tusculum Newport and Ten Mile. A testimonial praises Foley Kidney Pills for pain relief, with user from Reading, Pa.
Mr and Mrs J C Kelley entertained Sunday with Homer Smith of Camp Sherman Miss Blanche Kelly of Dayton O Mr and Mrs J C Truitt and daughter Ruth of Cincinnati and Mrs T A Atwood John Drummond and family of Merwin spent Sunday with Mack Woods and wife Several teachers attended the Southwestern Ohio Teachers Association in Cincinnati Friday and Saturday Mrs Dee Malick of Kansas City has been guest of Miss Angie Ireton and other friends Mrs Mary Herron visiting relatives in Winchester Lieber Wppert and family of Madisonville spent weekend with Bowman Woodruff and family Hon and Mrs O C Kearns hosted dinner with Fred Kearns and wife Barton Kearns and daughter Jennie Harry Kearns and wife Miss Nellie Wall Laura Short and Nellie Coleman Arthur Hamburg and family moved to Cincinnati for the winter Clermont Civic Club to hold annual Hallowe en social at Town Hall Wednesday night October 31 Admission 10 cents including pie lunch
A fragment describes a sales pitch urging readers to mail five cents to Foley & Co at 885 Sheffield Ave Chicago for a trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar peps cough remedies. The note imitates a distribution slip asking for clear name and address.
Misses Coulter Smith Hutson Paeltz Cole and others attended the Bird of Paradise at the Lyric Saturday afternoon. W A Williams and family visited Will Hall in Ludlow Kentucky. Olive Swein of College Hill spent days with relatives. Margaret R Corbly will give a musical recital at the Baptist church on Saturday November 8 with offerings for the church. Laura Short visited the White Oak Harmony Club at Mrs Jasper Iones. Mrs Henry Reed and Miss Joan Herron stayed with Mrs Jams Rice in Williamsburg. O O Houser sold his store to John Huntington and Julius Richardson who will take possession November first.
Negligible major event. notes Bethel residents and guests visiting relatives in Middletown Batavia Chillicothe Cincinnati Owensville Felicity Mayo Michigan and Arkansas. Social visits include temple entertainments birthdays weddings anniversaries and a US serviceman furlough visit from Hall.
The notice warns that untreated childhood colds can become chronic catarrh, a lifelong burden. It advocates early use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and notes the medicine is available everywhere.
Members of the Junior Epworth League of the M E church held a Halloween party in the Sunday school room last Friday from 6 to 7 pm with about 57 youngsters. Miss Helen Bishop led the society and was honored with a box of letter paper. Gracie Dietz won best mask as Rev and Mrs Wilson attended.
The East Fork Progressive Farm Women's Club met at Mrs. Neva Ogden's home on October 27. Despite heavy rain the gathering was enjoyable with a program including responses, a city of Ohio and What Noted by Cecile Glancy, and a discussion on Canning Meats. A lunch of fruit salad cake coffee and candy followed.
A notice reports the court has qualified Nate of Ann P. H. Simon as administrator of the late Simon estate. The appointment follows the death of Gaines and names the attorney handling the matter.
Local notices report visits across families from Chillicothe Bethel and Richmond Ind to Williamsburg. Obituary notes Otis Dudley 87 of Afton and funeral at M E church. Community activities include Vesta Club meetings and Sunday school day planning with Go to Sunday school Day events.
Women of all ages suffer pains and swelling caused by overworked kidneys. Foley Kidney Pills offer relief from kidney related ailments and are sold everywhere.
A legal notice announces the opening of an estate in Clermont County. The deceased is stated as Julsa Raes or similar, with the attorney Henchly listed to represent the estate. The filing party seeks to administer and settle debts and assets under local probate law.
A Cincinnati Times-Star remark notes the phrase age of a woman. it observes that women have little to say about their own age, reflecting social expectations and attitudes of the era.
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