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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1923
Page
9
David son covers largest Evansville Evansville division meeting of The Standard Oil Co Ind. Col Robert W Stewart chairman of the board led a party of directors and executives with managerial and employee welfare remarks. Stewart, a dominating industry figure, promotes stable policies and welfare programs praised by labor and capital alike.
A brief ad from Wahl Grable Co offering gutter fitting galvized flues and all tin shop work. Call for service. A-11-3-w.
Relatives and friends gathered at Mr and Mrs Abe Baxleys southwest of Gordon to celebrate Mrs Baxleys forty second birthday with a noon dinner. Attendees included Lee Baxley Grover Wiseman Jafe Lasley Luther Wolfe FHddy Dean and families Jesse Moyars Oscar Conrad and families Herman Fravel and baby Beulah Fern Bertha Violet Lasley and others.
Earl Shireman son of Mr and Mrs Frank W Shireman of this place has grown into a skilled cornetist with Art Payne's Hawaiian Garden Orchestra based in Louisville. The group has begun cutting phonograph records, record No 3063 featuring Let Me Call You Sweetheart Some Winter's Night and No 5064 Ingle Bells You Gotta See Mama. Frank W Shireman a Corydon music dealer lists these records for sale to local phonograph owners. The orchestra will perform for the Elks in Fyansville Thursday and while away a Tucson orchestra will play in at the Hawaiian Garden. Repair services for tinware graniteware and other tin work are offered by the Watel Grable Co.
George Jones and others attend relatives in nearby towns. Community members, health notes, a public sale announced for Donald Wilbiam, and Easter Sunday Sunday School reorganized at Clifton with Williar family for officers and teachers. Swift fertilizers available at J G Zabel Hardware.
Mr Pat McKim of Dysart entertained Easter Sunday guests including Jesse McKim and daughter Opal Gayle and son James from Laporte City, H A Fisher and two sons Forrest and Ernest of Garrison, Clarence Harbeson of Dysart, Edward Fisher Ivan Carpenter and Dee Hershman of Corydon Indiana.
An old advertisement promotes Baldwin products including the Manualo Player and Welte Mignon reproducing piano. It touts Baldwin as the leading piano brand and mentions prices and terms through dealer Frank W. Shireman.
The approximate date of the Chautauqua to be given in Corydon has been set for July 7. I want to purchase a good fresh milch cow. Mrs. John E. Engleman Corydon Indiana. M-28-3-w Eureka Phone.
The County Commissioners held a two day session and rejected both bids for the Blue River bridge at Shrigley’s ford. A new bid date was set for April 28. They reported quarterly financials and appointed James I. McKim as Justice of the Peace of Harrison township.
William Howerton, about seventy five, died suddenly last Wednesday morning at his Blue River township home while reading with his wife present. He was lifelong resident, survived by a widow and eight children. Funeral held at Mt. Zion Friday afternoon conducted by Rev. Horace Sonner.
The Corydon Democrat recounts Wyandotte Cave as a cyclone defense. A party led by Robert Louden and Chas Rothrock, with Miss Austin, traversed two miles inside while a roaring wind and sand blasted the cave. A hurricane twenty years earlier echoed the same fear and the group fled as the storm passed overhead.
ROLLA PINAIRE in Ramsey, Indiana advertises Bure Leghorn eggs for hatching from a breeding flock. Eggs offered to poultry enthusiasts and farm buyers.
Mrs. Ed LaHue hosted the Hoosier Elm Chapter on April 2. Members shared quotations from Booth Tarkington and a biographical sketch of the author. The group urged Corydon lodges to avoid flag decorations on Decoration Day to honor all soldiers’ graves. Piano solo 11 Trovotare and refreshments followed.
An old Capitol Real Estate Agency listing offers a well located Corydon home with ten rooms two lots a barn a good cellar a smoke house two cisterns and a corner property all at a bargain.
Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Alvis wife of J D Alvis of Salem died March 14 after years of rheumatic illness. Born April 5 1853 in Valley City Harrison Indiana she was 69 and survived by sons Frank W Claud Trotter and Bert Wright and four grandchildren. She was active in First Presbyterian Church.
Local Farm Bureau promotes fertilizer sales from its Corydon warehouse with an invitation to visit anytime in town. F-28-10-W.
Community notes report an upcoming wedding for a Shireman-Fowley connection. Visitors include Gus and Mrs Shireman with Arthur Fowley family, Wiseman and McBride families, and Lordehmeyer household members joining Sunday gatherings and a church Ladies’ Aid quilting group meeting. A newborn, a field meet prep, and illness mention round out the items.
Beal Brothers advertise eggs from Ancona birds claiming top awards across Washington Harrison and Floyd counties from Aug 1 1922 to Jan 15 1923. They note grand champion pen of the entire show and grand champion utility female in Harrison county in January 1923. Eggs priced at 3.00 per setting.
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