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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1928
Page
5
Stella Wheeler and Mrs. Rapp were in Cincinnati while Evelyn Wheeler and Effie Lindsey visited Bethel. M. M. Skinner received two coal loads and the Cannery began canning apples. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coombs also visited Cincinnati and Chaney moved into his new property.
Friday night a barn owned by Charley Slye burned. Mrs. Rachel Northcutt reported a store break in with goods stolen. Several social visits and family events are noted, including anniversaries, weddings postponed by illness, and a surprise party. Local moves and sales include Ben McKibben selling Nov. 10 and James Lewis relocating to Batavia. Community events list theater at the opera house on Nov. 1 and 3 and film programs for Nov. 6.
The Ladies' Aid will serve dinner at 5 O. C. F. hall election day. Chas. Wallace and wife from Mt. Crab spent Sunday at J. W. Washburn's. D. A. Roger and wife from city visited M. M. Hill and family. Edna Reddick visited Lola Hill. Mr. Frazier and Mr. Steward with wives called on A. Bigham. Mr. Fitzwater and wife visited Mrs. Joe Fitzwater. Callers at M. M. Hill's Sunday included Reena Robinson, Herbert Meek, Russell Hill and family.
Dinner visits and family gatherings populate a Sunday rundown with names like Mrs. James Malott Ora Cramer and family Brooksville J A Warman and wife near Harwood Clara Freeman Ferristown and more. Reports mention a broken arm for Mrs. John Monjar and a marriage rumor while other residents attend meals and home visits across the area.
Mrs Lulu Frazier visited Miss Lottie Remley at New Richmond last week. D of R lodge hosted by Williams burg lodge with twenty five members. Mrs Clara Barrett and Mrs Bell Hill of Indianapolis visiting Nellie Goodwin and Emma Hill. Grand Chapter attendees: Mrs Shielda and Mrs Pattison at Cleveland.
The P T A will host a chicken dinner Friday November 2 at the school house from 5 to 8 pm with admission 35 cents. Thornton Jackson of Terre Haute Indiana visited nieces Mrs H White and Miss Nellie Kirgan. The Philatheas held a Hallowe en party in the eighth S room Tuesday night. Ed Bishop and wife of Williamsburg visited Mrs Corn Ely Monday. Kinney moved into Mr Pommert s house and Frank Monjar the Williamsville bus man moved into the Kinney residence. Our teachers attended the Southwestern Teachers Association in the city last week. Mrs Margaret Flora and her son visited friends in Winton Place Friday. Misses Peaches Hitchcock Jerry and Bates Edwards hosted a Hallowe en party Saturday afternoon. Mrs Henry Laub injured her ankle last week. Fred Kearns and wife Mrs Hattie Hayford of the city were Sunday guests of Miss Jennie Kearns.
Executors named for multiple estates including Closson Harry and Sheridan M Spence authorize bond sales. Wills from Ruth Crane Batavia Loveland Mary Dowdell Bantam and Isabelle Johns Bantam outline payments to debts legacies to churches and beneficiaries and residue to named individuals with trustees appointed.
A long list of land and lot transfers with one dollar consideration each, detailing buyers such as Bert Stewart, Edgar Reeves, Harry Cook, Chas Burdsall, Jacob Miller, Ira Grey, Hattie Widmeyer, Clement Linn, Anna Scudder, Chester Lindsey, David MacClosky, James Scott, August Greiner, Irma Ireton, Wir Bee, Amy Dillman, Mary Boys, Harry Barr, Charles Graham and others. Properties span Goshen Township, Union Township, Tate Two, Loveland, Bethel, Moscow, Batavia Township, New Richmond, and Utopia with acreages from 3 to 108 plus lots.
Elizabeth Elinor Love of Brown County and Clermont County dies at 74 after caring for family. daughter of Andred and Nancy Love. leaves sister Margaret Judd and brothers Joel and William. grave reflections on life and faith. Charlotte B Creager of Clermont County dies at 92. former teacher and homemaker. widow of W. B. Creager. upbringing, fostering motherless girls, and service as Chaplain of Linden Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. enduring memories and faith.
The Love Family expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and death of their sister and aunt.
Lizzie Towner born March 15 1860 died October 6 1928 after seven year illness. She was a teacher in Afton and Mt Pisgah and a Sunday School steward at Afton M E Church. She married John McAfee June 16 1880 and had three children Clarence McAfee Iva Meek and Stanley who died in infancy. Grandchildren include Norman John McAfee Jr and Audrey Iles. She aided the sick and needy and hoped she and her husband would pass on together. The obituary speaks to her faith and a final hymnlike tribute to life beyond.
A memorial tribute to Miss Bell Rogers born December 24 1864 near Afton who died June 12 1890. The piece praises her prayer life guiding faith and her large family of ten children seven sons and three daughters with seven grandchildren. Survived by William Brothers and mourned by kin and friends.
A poetic fragment describes seeds sowing along roadsides and late crops growing in green fields as springs wane and brooks run quiet, with leaves fading into a hush before winter.
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