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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1940
Page
5
Williamsburg entries show visits from Lancaster and Nashville. Lake Elle fishing trip. Pearl wedding anniversary celebrated. numerous family gatherings and Labor Day trips to Louisville and Cincinnati. local reunions and park outings noted with neighbors and relatives. MT. Holly reports Labor Day reunion and church events. residents hosted birthdays and hospital recovery updates. several Kentucky and Ohio visitors mentioned.
Mrs Leona Alondis of Ada visits with her ill brother Walter Waiters at Joe Jones home. Lamb home broken into Sunday, $12 and a gold ring stolen. Clark home visited by Gertrude Bardin and Mr and Mrs Newell Clark. Mr and Mrs Martin Zocher of Madisonville visited Melvin Bush family Sunday.
Mrs Dennis hosted her brother Louis and wife during an extended auto trip visiting Niagara Falls Michigan Wisconsin the Middle West Tennessee and the Carolinas. Mr and Mrs Roy Groves returned from Suffolk Virginia after sightseeing around Norfolk and Chesapeake Bay. Sunday guests at the Craver home included Mr and Mrs Lloyd Harlow and children Mrs Irma Ir ton and son and Miss Addie McCormick of Bethel. Everett Yeager and family attended a Catholic Church reunion in Seville. Lester Stinson of Pittsburgh with Mayme joined two weeks in Pittsburgh. Fred Lehrer and daughter toured Niagara Falls and Liming is convalescing at home.
Benjamin Franklin initiated America's first street cleaning service in Philadelphia in 1757. Each household paid six pence monthly for cleaning the pavement twice weekly.
Mrs. Emerson Pringle life long resident died Saturday morning after several weeks illness. Funeral services were conducted Monday at the Methodist Church with burial in Plainview Cemetery led by George W Monroe. Relatives and neighbors extended sympathy to the family. Numerous local residents and visitors from Chicago Denver and other towns attended events and gatherings in the community.
The Batavia Methodist Church led by Minister C. R. Spangler hosts the annual conference at Lakeside beginning Tuesday September 8. Sunday school starts at 9 30 A M and morning worship at 10 30 A M The Woman's Society organized September 11 at 2 30 PM aims to enroll every woman as a charter member and grant certificates.
Amelia Prize guest in Temple City Calif visits with the Myricks. Sewing group meets on Main Street. Donald Ault of New York stays with his wife and baby. Kline Slye travels to Columbus. Joe Brock returns from a ten day western trip. Lew Hopkins Norwood and Charles Dillon with Susan visit Hopkins Avenue. Peditt family weekend with Phillip Fisch. Carrie and Catherine Kruck of Georgetown visit sister Mrs A B Mattox. Hand-In-Hand class picnic at Coney Island. Karl Mattox family back from six weeks at Slye farm Nicholsville. Glen Teegarden returns from Smoky Mountains vacation. Rev Geo Reed and wife return from visit to Reed parents Larry and Virginia Theize Detroit. Theize visit Jack Theize.
The Nile’s farthest source is in Nyavolonga and Akanyara, headstreams of the River Kagera, which feeds into the Victoria Nile. The Nile extends about 4,000 miles, with the Blue Nile rising from Lake Tana in Abyssinia.
In 1892 William Pop Schriver star catcher of the Chicago club caught a ball thrown from the top of the Washington Monument, a stunt never before achieved. The event is noted alongside brief historical references to Arizona’s early press in Tubac and the Weekly Arizonian of 1859.
Chicago report from the Middle West Soil Improvement Committee advises treating farm manure with 20 percent superphosphate to boost soil fertility and crop yields. It outlines methods for mixing the additive with manure year round, including in spreaders and troughs, noting phosphoric acid and ammonia retention.
Curacao cruise stops offer items mirroring Shanghai Alexandria Tokyo and Madrid with goods tracing to Syria India and France. In New York a new Americanization course aims to address tensions as foreign men trained in European refugee schools clash with women in leadership roles.
Contemporary explorers say the gorilla is now extremely shy and hard to spot in the jungle, contrasting older travel books that hailed it as ferocious when wounded and prone to threatening growls.
The largest mammoth tusk in U.S. history was found by George Doughty of Post Texas. The tusk measures about 16.5 feet long and 2 feet in circumference, unearthed from sandy soil near his home.
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