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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1909
Page
8
One month Courier offers include Weekly Gazette, one year at 1.35 and Daily Post, one year at 2.60. Also Courier and Daily Times Star, one year at 2.75 and Courier and New York World Thrice a week edition at 1.66.
Harry Homen returns home on vacation while Miss Leva Penn visits from Amelia via Bata friends on Monday. The Exy law firm in Batavia offers a $2,000 loan with first mortgage security. Harley Bennett and Cincinnati relatives visited Aiem Cade and family. Marjorie Hulick Elizabeth Paxton and Gladys Clark depart for Oxford College. Wendell Wasner returns to Washington D C after month with local family. The 18th Regiment O V I Veteran Association plans its Bran cher reunion on September 23. Pooled tobacco checks will be at Moscow on September 17. Felicity event notices and game invitations included.
The snippet notes earnings for the year ending June 80 with figures around 20 million and 11 million in other segments, suggesting a mixed financial picture of the railway business. It also references local figures and a funeral escort for Gen. Corbin last week.
Wholesale indictments from the last grand jury target city and county officials in Youngstown and Mahoning County. Accused include two acting and one ex commissioner, two education board members, a good roads official, several contractors, and others. Indicted individuals posted bonds of one to two thousand dollars for court appearance. Graft alleged centers on protection for gamblers and related misconduct.
L A Huling a prominent county citizen died at Betts street hospital Monday the 18th in his 58th year Funeral services will be held in Batavia on Thursday September 16 at 10 30 a m conducted by Rev Burdsall Interment in Batavia cemetery
In plowing corn two months ago William Canter was struck in the eye by a blade. The injury required removal of the eye last week to prevent total blindness due to an abscess behind the ball. A glass eye will be fitted to the socket.
The season for doves wood cock snipe and waterfowl generally is open until December 4. Wild duck season continues through December. Rabbits and other game not to be killed until November 15. Squirrel season opens October 1 and lasts about one month. Doves quail and wild duck are reported abundant while the squirrel is scarce.
An Ohio community notes a long cold winter while advertising Electric Bitters as a health booster for stomach liver kidneys and blood. The notice claims the product builds vigor and mental sharpness and is available from druggists for 50 cents. Additionally a death and local resolutions express sympathy for Maude McMahan’s family.
Howard Cook, one of the New Richmond boys, arrested by the street car company for disorderly conduct, was dismissed by Squire Muller on Thursday. The other men charged were not found and the company will pursue no further action.
Mrs Della Hubbard daughter of G G Snider formerly of the Elmwood neighborhood on the Frank Titus farm died in Chicago Monday. The remains were brought to Batavia today for interment.
Helen Griffis aged 15, second daughter of Wm H Griffis and granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Chas Griffis, of this place, died after a lingering heart illness at the home of cousin Theo Spicer in Newport Kentucky. Fred Wehrum, formerly of Batavia now of Felicity, attended the funeral of his friend Mr Ansteatt. Wehrum is 83 and in good health.
Records show detailed payments for masonry, culverts, pikes, walls, grading, and bridge work by Duke Laycock J B Winspear Gravoy Bros and others. The last biannual audit reports treasury charges totaling 70400 90 with various allowances and expenses across Clermont Montgomery and surrounding public works.
A young lord, seated opposite James McNeill Whistler, mutters a condescending compliment about the artist’s house. Whistler replies with quiet thanks as the lord remarks on taste, while the painter reflects on refinement and talent across daily tasks.
A Chicago diner asks for an unheard of fish and the waiter spins a joke about a circular lake trick. The tale ends with the waiter proposing to laugh the whiffletit to death as a punchline.
Mrs. Miriam Doane wife of Dr. W B Doane died at her Amelia home Tuesday evening aged 73 Funeral services from the family residence Friday at 10 30 conducted by Rev G M Fulton
James L. Rames will deliver his initial sermon at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning the nineteenth and again in the evening at the usual hour. He is permanently employed and regular services will be held thereafter. Mr. and Mrs. E B Holmes of Williams burg visited last week with their daughter Mrs B S Rush and family.
A sale in Clinton County Martinsville begins at 1 o clock p m offering 14 head of Pedigreed Short Horn cattle and 2 from the 8 8 Puckett herd. The herd includes 8 cows with calves two calves at foot two heifers fresh in fall two yearling heifers and 2 bulls led by Woodland Prince 303155. Terms made known at sale. If weather is bad, sale will be under cover. Refreshments on grounds. Send for catalogue.
A brief business note announces fresh fish will be available each Friday at the corner of Fifth and New streets, with contact via Bell Phone 48.
Having purchased other property I offer my present Batavia residence on Broadway for sale. Eight rooms and bath with fixtures, hot and cold water. First floor rooms finished in hard wood. Cement cellar under the house. Furnace, electric lights, and water upstairs and down. Fine lawn with shade and fruit trees. One full lot for garden with a small barn. Offered at a bargain price.
A rare wooden wheel with bells in Comfort parish near Pont-Croix shows a belief in healing powers when run over a child’s head placed in a lockbox. A sailor’s wife seeks guidance on whether to try the ritual for her troubled learner.
The Fools Tower in Vienna housed 139 cells for 200 to 250 patients and showcased brutal past-era devices such as swinging machines and an English coffin. It marks a shift toward modern mental health housing, with instruments and fetters noted for their rarity and cruelty.
At an ambulance lecture in Hilphinstone East Lothian Scotland a miner joked about a penknife throat incision to relieve suffocation. He warned that if the patient died their folk would prosecute him for murder while if he survived he would be prosecuted for cutting his throat.
The Alkham Kent blacksmith James Pay died just as his daughter, employed by a neighboring doctor, felt a sudden urge to return home. She arrived in time to witness his death, about twenty minutes after he had finished at the forge.
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