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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1919
Page
7
The Corydon Democrat lists weddings births illness and visits across Corydon area. items include Florence Smith ill at home Olivia Psch visiting from Couisville, Mr and Mrs Brinley ill with influenza, tours by N H Battram and J L Battram, and a Buick 1918 for sale. multiple store promotions and community updates round out the page.
Dr W H Reeder of New Amsterdam spent Sunday in Louisville. Various local classifieds note piano store updates, home for rent, and health updates. Mission and revival services are in progress at New Amsterdam with ministers Dillman Edwards and Tullis aiding.
Readers learn of theater events in Louisville and local social gatherings in Corydon and New Middletown. Updates include a Royal Neighbors pie social, a veterininarian visiting farms, a Boone County widow with eleven children, and the return of residents to normal life after military service.
County Treasurer T W Knight received a large Wyoming grown potato weighing almost three pounds from Mrs Charles Kron. Town readers report couples renewing subscriptions, local high school student Benjamin Franklin Taylor weighs 160 pounds and attends Washington Township High School in New Amsterdam. Mrs Ruth E Funk hosted a Sunday School class honoring Emma Fisher who left for Colorado with gifts. The Christian church Aid Society and the Rebekah Lodge hosted farewell events for Fisher and her daughter. Ivan Windell, a Washington Township farmer, toured Wisconsin noting dairy opportunities and urging larger dairy farming in Harrigan County.
Miss Glan Conrad and niece Cletus Kopp spent a few days last week with cousins in Terre Haute. Mr and Mrs Ed O’Connor and others took a trip to Seymour and Bloomington. Miss Blanche Lilpop returned to Louisville to resume nursing after visiting her parents near New Middletown. Easter luncheon planned by Elizabeth M E church Ladies Aid on April 19 with guessing contest and fish pond. For sale a traction engine grain separator corn shredder and saw mill in good condition. Corydon Station cream price offered by Geo. Ev Brown. Williams Salts and daughter Wilma visited relatives in town. Mr Salts employed by L&N Railway. Miss Josephine Schilmitler from Louisville spent two weeks with siblings in Posey and Taylor Townships and returned with brother John Schiltiler and family to New Albany. Mr and Mrs Thos A Ginkins and Mrs Emma Fisher moved to Trinidad Colorado. Ginkins will stone cut with brother Frank. Sam Allen discharged from service returned home to New Amsterdam after overseas, wounded in France with two fingers lost. He served 23 months including Cantigny St Mihiel Gigsons Argonne Woods battles.
Mrs. Gayle S. Ballard of Louisville visits Mr. and Mrs. George Conrad near Hursttown with ties to the Ross Fox families. Ballard’s husband serves in France after five years in the U.S. Army. Leslie Farnasey brings cousins William and John Farnstey to Corydon to record their discharges from Uncle Sam’s service, with William overseas seven months and John serving at Fort Benjamin Harrison as a baker.
Emery Breeden of Medford Oklahoma visits relatives in the county for about a week after traveling to Chrissgoen for business. He is a leading local lawyer, born and raised in the county, began practice at Corydon. His wife also hails from the area. Eldon Breeden, his son, serves overseas and was wounded in the St Mihiel battle. Breeden notes good conditions among Harrison county residents near Medford. First proof cabbage plants order from Mrs Clarence Kopp, shipment expected April 3.
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