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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1892
Page
5
Personal notes list visits and calls among residents in Glen Este Blairville Fair Haven and nearby areas. It mentions Teal Abbot Hirnigle Hofer Cohoon Stadt miller and others and records social calls funerals and civic events. Hood and other advertisements appear alongside community notices.
A local column notes illness of Mr. Pisgah William Nesbitt and various social items. Entries mention visits by Miss Bettie Goble and Miss Lena Hancock, church improvements, bridge work contracts, a California move, and fall farming progress amid rain. Community notices include appointments, travels, a possible early October wedding, and local shop activity.
Syrup of Figs praised as a refreshing remedy cleansing kidneys and bowels, with bottles at 50c and 1,0. Local notes mention Bethel residents attending funerals, school openings, visits, and a Misses Smith concert drawing a packed house with the K of P presence and a theft of lap robes under investigation.
Milford residents and visitors appear in a series of short items. People from Illinois Cincinnati Cumminsville Columbia Lebanon and Mulberry share visits attend gatherings and celebrate church activities. Officers for a Sunday school were elected and neighbors hosted friends at several local houses.
An old physician offers a free foreign language recipe for a vegetable remedy claimed to cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous ailments. The notice by Glenn Andrews mentions sending directions by mail from Power's Block Rochester. Local items note visitors and small town happenings around Smith's Landing Cincinnati Iowa Champaign and Batavia.
Frien ds and neighbors gathered at the residence of Mr and Mrs F Hill to honor Parry Hill and Miss Etta Bickmore of Cincinnati. Music by W R Medaris followed by a pleasant repast. The Hill couple returned to the city Saturday. Other local notes mention pastor changes and visits by various residents and relatives.
Miss Nellie Fenner plans to return home after visiting relatives and will resume schooling under C. E. Smith. Frances Frazier returns to Lafayette Indiana from Clermont. Mrs. Charles R. Smith and Mrs. Anna Ely brief visitors to Williamsburg. Hon James Wood of Amelia and wife were guests of Jessie Bennett Donavan King and Earnest Bennett who are improving. Mrs. Moore of Newport Kentucky buys her old home here and will become a permanent neighbor. Local roads work continues with aim of improvement. Sabbath School Union Chapel prospers under B. F. Moyer with Rev. Fulton preaching Sunday. Elmer Eley and wife of Bantam return from Columbus and State Fair. Visitors include Miss Lillian Davis and mother. Aged mother of B. F. Moyer and Mrs. M. Leeds visited. Dick Atchley of Greenbrier and John Applegate of Branch Hill called on friends. Mr. and Mrs. George Wageman and Edward Whitaker and S. Dial with others dined at the Moyer home.
A local druggist advertises Dr King s New Discovery for coughs colds and lung throat and chest troubles with a money back refund if not beneficial. Trial bottles are free at J B Walker s Drug Store Williamsburg and Belt Barris Batavia with a large size offered at 500 and 1 00.
Mr Hoy reports Fletcher Thomas suffered several fractured ribs from a horse kick last Sunday morning. Ernest Bennett's illness worsens with consumption, raising grave fears. Orlando Leeds adds to his home. A ground hog was killed on David Pierson’s farm. Sheep killing dogs are deemed a nuisance locally. Mr and Mrs C M Edwards attended the Fairfield Thompson reunion at Lucy's Run. Rev Waites of Neville purchased the Celia house. Various residents and visitors from Salem Cincinnati Newport Kentucky and Amelia are noted. A Muchly Married Woman Mrs Fowler of this city wed her sixth husband last January. four prior husbands died around the marriage day.
Amelia families, visitors, and events fill a busy town page. Ald de Camp W T McDonough joins the staff of Ohio Division G A R. Rev Smith and wife travel from Georgetown to Grand Rapids Michigan. Reports cover concerts, receptions, fair attendance, school, business ventures, and lingering notices of locals and guests across Amelia and nearby towns.
Born to Mr and Mrs J C Fabr a girl W E Canter sick with dropsy Republicans at Batavia convention Ben Waits visiting relatives Dr Cook Canter Pekin called on his brother Anna McNutt spent Sunday with Clover relatives Smith alsters entertainment drew large crowd Eugine Creamer improving residence Warren Glancy and son Melvin Stonwlek visiting relatives H E Chatterton Wilming ton principal spent Sunday George Scott Jr sick with fevers Elia Williams home after summer with relatives Felter shipped two cows to Toledo for 1750 Buy pumps of G A McNatt Co
Advertisement notes prompt skilled craft by A P Buerkle in Owenaville offering workmanship satisfaction and price guarantees with a call to hire the “old reliable.”
The ceremony at the bride’s mother’s residence in Hamersville Ohio on September 22 1892 joined Chartea McBeth and Effie McGahan both residents of Hamersville The second wedding occurred on September 25 with Rev W H Sutherland performing the marriage of William T Johnson of Fairmount Cincinnati and Velma A Harden of Clermont County Ohio
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