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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1949
Page
6
Batavia Ohio notice lists subscription rates for six months at 0 and one year at 2.00 dollars. It also records mail entry and second class matter status with Batavia post office.
The 1849 Courier reprints a 45 year old account of Lydia Osborne, a young daughter of Josiah Osborne, who vanished while gathering blackberries near Williamsburg in July 1804. Despite weeks of search, she was never found and it was concluded she died of starvation with wild beasts supposedly feeding on her remains.
Fifty years ago Batavia prepared for a new school year as students gathered for the first day. Superintendent Collins is highly regarded, with William Fulton as principal and Geo Hatfield as assistant principal. Assistant teachers Julia Long, Cecil Hulick, Cora Griffith, Ada Leonard and Elma Townsley praised. Goshen and Boston teams met atBoston Fair Grounds with Goshen winning 3 to 2.
The Marathon PTA schedules a Friday meeting at 8 p m with a plastic demonstration. The public is invited to attend.
The piece presents submission guidelines for The Poet's Nook and quotes poems by Sabra Palmer Hutchings and a verse about a stream. It lists addresses in Ohio for contributions and includes brief excerpts illustrating the lyrical tone and nature imagery used in the column.
A lyrical poem by Iva M. Lester printed in the Times-Star extols the music of nature heard along the riverbanks. The verses invite readers to listen through nights and days as nature’s soft cadence enchants the ear.
The account lists kerosene street lamps on wooden posts, unpaved streets, three hotels with livery stables, a public square with a water trough and hitching rail, two butcher shops, a bakery wagon making house calls, an eight room schoolhouse with two high school rooms, tobacco warehouses, four hand powered fire pumpers, various sidewalks, three weekly papers, two ice houses with hand ice cutters, three drug stores, bells at hotels for meals, a town water tank supplying railroad engines, pigsties and stables, no health permit requirements, daily mails, two slaughterhouses, no legal liquor sales, a $2 poll tax, one long distance telephone pay station, obituaries delivered house to house, three toll gates, a flour mill powered by water, coal sold by the ton, and hopeful lawyers studying for the bar.
A fragmented reminiscence lists era details including a hearse drawn by white Arabian horses or blooded blacks, a wooden railroad bridge, two hotel hacks meeting trains, bulk molasses and vinegar sales, a bank paying no interest, no laundry service, no minors sold cigarettes, a bicycle shop, lack of modern plumbing, hotel display rooms, a court house bell, a copper shop producing tobacco hogsheads, and Main Street shaded by trees. The note closes with “Ah, for the good old days” and a signature.
The Ladies' Bridge Club held a picnic at Mrs. Wm. Rosselot's home as rain cancelled the outdoor plan. Owensville church members attended a gang service in Edenton. Miss Rose Koeppe wed Mr. Ray mond Wagner at St. Louis church. Cliff Rosselot family and Irene attended the Ohio State Fair. Miss Alice Yeager and Miss Patricia O'Neil took a motor trip to New York Niagara and Canada returning Monday.
Senator Taft argues the Military Assistance Program for 11 nations fails to justify itself to Congress and warns theERP gains may be eroded. He cites budget strains and warns that arms aid could distract from genuine European recovery while the Atlantic Pact and US airpower remain stronger deterrents.
The Batavia Presbyterian Church lists William T. Paterson for church school at 9 730 and worship at 10 45 a m. Owensville First Baptist led by Pastor Charles W Jessee with a radio broadcast at 9 45 a m on WNOP 740. Lucian Thompson and Marion Watts sing. Bible School at 10 a m Worship at 11 a m Evangelistic Service at 7 45 p m Prayer and Bible Study Wednesday at 7 45 p m.
The page lists multiple church schedules with pastors and service times. Cozadale Methodist, Goshen Edenton Methodist, New Richmond, Summerside Methodist, Monterey Presbyterian among others show morning worships, Sunday School, youth activities, and evening services for September dates.
A compact listing of weekly and weekend religious services across multiple churches. Holy Trinity Church offers Sunday Masses at 8 and 10 am with weekday Masses on Tuesday and Friday mornings. St Philomena and Ann’s in Williamsburg present weekday masses and Mass times, while Carmel Christian Holiness and a Women’s Missionary Society hold regular meetings. Reverend leaders named for each parish invite attendance.
A compact listing of Sunday School times worship and evangelistic services across Modest Church of Christ Christian Holiness Batavia Methodist Taylor Methodist and Reading room at Forestville. Includes pastors Rev Albert Fidler Jr Bethel Dalton Fred M Mark and IL B Jenkins with service times and midweek meetings.
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