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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1932
Page
8
Local notes record visits by L. F Mattox and A C Nash families to Wilmington and Batavia, with relatives in Cincinnati and Columbus. Church events include a lawn fete at Taylor Methodist and an Armory Flower Show. School openings, fair attendance, and regional travel dominate a front of social updates and advertisements.
Four of 14 Ohio State Fair clothing exhibits carry Clermont county labels with three from Nimble Thimble Club Batavia led by Mrs. Howard Ayers and one from Miami Workers club Branch Hill led by Miss Martha Lewis. Clermont County had the highest county rating in the state. Winners pending.
Clermont County Farm Bureau placed second in the Ohio State Fair Agricultural Development contest open to the state. The exhibit featured a water powered grist mill model with a stream labeled farmers powering a mill race. A $100 prize will fund Clermont county Farm Bureau programs.
The Batavia Presbyterian Church led by minister Samuel Huecker schedules midweek services on Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. and Sunday services with Sunday school at 9 30 a.m. and morning worship at 10 30 a.m. Mr. Huecker will preach. An invitation is extended to all. Prayer meeting is Wednesday at 7 30 p.m.
Notice to teachers announces an organizational meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m at Batavia High School Building. Attendees will help decide the course of study for the extension class.
The Hungarian partridge in the United States shows minimal crop damage based on an 80-bird survey by the Biological Survey of the USDA. Most fall and winter diets include green leaves and grains with animal matter only 6 percent, while young birds favor grasshoppers and beetles. The species, now established in regions including southwestern Canada and several US states, attracts interest from sportsmen, ornithologists, and farmers.
A reader notes that asking a person about their life ambitions reveals much about character. Wealth, power, and recognition are common aims, often aided by greed, while friendship and respect remain rare and precious rewards for a life of giving.
In the Twelfth century Bologna Salerno and Paris emerged as centers for law medicine and theology. Universities formed as incorporated groups of teachers or students gaining privileges from popes and rulers. By the 14th and 15th centuries many universities were established with enduring legacies such as Oxford and Cambridge.
A hearse carrying the body of Mrs. Samuel Kautz was struck near Hamersville on the Grant Highway while en route from Norwood to Georgetown for burial. The accident sent the casket into the road, flowers scattered, and undertaker Mr. Treadway of Norwood was badly hurt as a Georgetown hearse joined to continue the funeral procession. Mrs. Kautz was the mother of Hamilton judge Kautz.
Dinner guests Sunday included Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Turton and daughter Cecil of Lebanon along with Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Hodges of Milford and other Hodges from Linwood Cincinnati Chicago Batavia Worthington and Columbus with multiple Turton relatives and a physician guest.
The piece notes three White Horses in England at Berkshire, Wiltshire near Westbury, and Dorset near Weymouth. It highlights a Roman camp atop Berkshire’s White Horse hill and wells-preserved earthworks at Westbury, suggesting the legends may be factual given proximity to camps. The Dorsetshire horse commemorates a separate event.
Fourteen year old scouts and their leader Clark Wuasner returned to Batavia after a six day circuit visiting Columbus Mt. Vernon Akron Mansfield and a Goodyear plant tour The group thanks Perry Ayer Moyer and others who financed and organized the trip The column ends with a note on alimony and matrimony acrimony.
The true sycamore is a fig family tree, distinct from the buttonwood, common in Egypt. It yielded durable wood used by ancient Egyptians for mummy cases and today serves as a shade tree and for fine furniture and cigar boxes due to its attractive grain.
The persimmon is a native American fruit found wild from Connecticut to the Carolinas and west to Missouri and Arkansas. The American species is related to the Japanese date plum from China, with the latter producing larger, less astringent fruit and thriving in southern California.
The text notes extreme sensitivity of sense organs, detailing the nose affected by vanillin at 1 in 10,000,000 air parts and mer captan at 1/28,000,000 of a milligram per liter, while eyesight responds to 5/1,000,000,000,000 erg of energy, about 1/8,000 of the threshold for rapid photographic plates. The source cites Walter B. Cannon's Wisdom of the Body.
The piece notes Francis Lynde as a prolific novelist with works like The Grafters and Empire Builders. It previews The Black Box of Silence as a gripping serial, and briefly tracks scientific tidbits on heat rays, ultraviolet light, and Antares as a giant star, with varied quotes and a mix of seemingly OCR fragments.
Charles Clift offers at public sale his old McNair farm one mile east of Nicholsville on Saturday September 10 at 10 a.m. items include a team of mules, two grade Jersey cows eight shoats six tons timothy hay two jolt wagons mowing machine wheat drill two riding cultivators two riding breaking plows disc harrow and assorted farm implements plus household and kitchen furniture. Usual terms. Auctioneer A M Ellis Lot Hulick clerk.
The article traces alchemy from its narrow aim of turning base metals into gold to its broader medieval chemistry. It explains the Roosevelt gold medal honor and lists fields for distinguished public service. It describes the totem pole in Native American culture and ends with a Marcus Aurelius scrap for memory.
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