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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1917
Page
7
Corydon area ads list prices on matches, garden tools, peroxide, eggs and cattle sales. Local residents Maud Stevens, John Funk, and Henry Davis renew subscriptions. Mr. Brown and William Hunter return to work after health matters. Community notices mention seed orders, farming weather, and a cattle and hog sale at Shack’s livery barn next Saturday.
Community tidbits report visits and employment moves from Corydon Indiana and surrounding towns. Isaac E Orwicks widow Mary spent time with Roy Davis in New Albany while Irene Amy left for Menders Wisconsin for work. Measles affect school No 3 Scott township closed March 28 with a strong program.
Advertising claim states catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications and requires a constitutional remedy. It describes the Eustachian tube inflammation causing hearing loss, touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as acting through the blood, and offers rewards for any case not cured. Circulars free from J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
Local notes describe Miles 5 and 10 cent store featuring dinner sets and jewelry while residents travel, visit, and relocate. Names include Shelby Kopp, Dr. B. F. Forbin, Edgar Miles, Miss Frances Birx, and Chas. H. Buchanan among others with moves to Corydon, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, and St. Louis. Community events cover school exhibits, church services, and cyclone relief fund corrections.
Local notes report visits, subscriptions, and social tidbits from Corydon and Harrison County. Highlights include Miles 5 & 10c Store promoting new embroidery varieties, visits by J C Davis and friends, farm sales of Jersey cattle and a Velie, and community updates on residents, schooling, and a $50,000 state gift discussion.
Currie L Beanblossom offers four and a half percent cash discount at a big sale on April 26 for purchases over five dollars. Stewart G the eldest son of Mr and Mrs James C Davis of Ramsey goes to Maxwell Iowa on the 11th to work this summer and return to high school in the fall. Mr and Mrs W B Nye moved from Crandall to Corydon where Mrs Nye operates as Abner Royce Company agent at their West Chestnut home and assists customers.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Bulleit came home last Friday from St. Cloud Florida where they spent four months. Mr. Bulleit owns land near St. Cloud with a residence where they have wintered. They look well and were glad to return to Corydon among friends.
A large collection of farm gear and household goods will be auctioned near Central on Thursday April 26. Items include a binder mower wheat drill hay rake corn drill disc harrow spike tooth harrow two turning plows two-horse cultivator one-horse cultivators Studebaker wagon hay ladder hog rack log chains bolsters and various tools.
Henry Binkley of Guymon Oklahoma visited his mother near town from Sunday to Tuesday and plans to buy two or three car loads of Holstein cattle in Evanaville Wisconsin. County agent D M Jackson will meet him in Wisconsin to aid the purchase. Binkley is president of the Holstein Freisian Association in Texas county and notes a 100 acre wheat crop.
Hubert Higdon died Monday night at 10 30 at his mother and step father Thomas and Mrs Denton home. He was born March 10 1892 aged 25 years 6 days and died of tuberculosis after a long illness. Funeral is Wednesday at 9 conducted by Rev Flynn and John H Heth with burial in Cedar Hill cemetery. He leaves his mother step father two sisters Mrs Ellen Beckett of Cincinnati Ohio and Mrs Bertha Case of this place two brothers George and Byrum Higdon plus half siblings. He served three years in the U S Army Company F 19th Infantry and had notable experiences in 1914 at Vera Cruz.
The county commissioners recently purchased a new rock crusher which arrived last week. Assistant Highway Superintendent Michael Hauswald transported it to the Corydon and New Albany Pike near Breckenridge, where he has a quarry ready for processing. The machine is expected to improve road stone quality.
Ex County Commissioner John Reeves of Taylor township visited Corydon on business last Saturday. He left a dollar to renew his subscription to The Democrat and expressed strong support for Harrison county accepting the $60,000 offered by the State of Indiana.
Mrs. W. B Nye invites any who can do 80 to call at her home on West Chestnut Street. She mentions a supply of toilet articles including cream of the best quality.
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