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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1918
Page
6
Advertising copy touts the New Idea Manure Spreader wide spread as cost effective with a one year payback. Claims include lighter draft, field tests against competitors, and satisfaction guaranteed with full replacement of parts breaking in the first year.
The Knights of Columbus announce a wartime fund drive week of May 6 with a Patriotic Mass Meeting May 5 at 2 30 in Corydon School Auditorium. Attendees will hear Army chaplain and officer from Camp Taylor Kentucky. Corydon High School Glee Club will provide music directed by Miss Mara Bennett.
Mrs Mary Jane Berry widow of July Theodore Burns died Wednesday morning April 17 at her daughter Wes tleary Aabl Morgan township. She was twenty six years old and survived by six children four sons and two daughters Theodore Detroit Joseph St Louis August Kansas William Kansas Mrs Barb Hanily and Mrs Khad. Funeral services were held French town at the Catholic Church Sunday Aigerpoon.
A notice directs corn meal grinders to obtain blank certificates from the packing office of C. B. Hays, Federal Food Administration, for Harrison County. It states no food administration wall will be used and certificates will be issued at the packing office.
Patriotic meetings are planned for Thursday night April 25 at multiple local sites including Franklin township New Salisbury Central and Ramsey and Friday night April 26 at Bradford Central Barren Zoar and Frenchtown with two speakers at each location. Joe Pinawire listed fertilizer for sale at his home, and Mrs Roscoe Lewis and son from New Albany visited Bee parents Mr and Mrs George Shuck on Monday.
A county call lists 36 soldiers bound for Camp Zachary Taylor with travel details and alternates. It names Henry W. Denbo as a candidate for recorder and includes a local notice about an automobile paint shop in Corydon by W. C. Glenn and a forthcoming event for Delwine head of Curve at Kahl's care on April 27.
Note announces a two page supplement packed with interesting news and advertising matter. The editors acknowledge space limits and mention a forthcoming No. 2 supplement focused on a large job press.
A telegram from Palmyra announces Louis Denhart’s death at St. Joseph Illinois after a long illness from cancer. He was a native of the county, 50 years old, and survived by a wife, eight children, his mother Mrs Elizabeth Byerley and many brothers and sisters in Illinois. Funeral services were held in St. Joseph on Sunday.
May first is designated Clean-Up Day in Corydon. Wagons will tour the town to collect rubbish from alleys and home fronts. residents should gather tin cans and trash for pickup. The Curtice Brothers Company of Rochester asks farmers to obtain tomato seed from Thos. 8. Jones' law office. Uncle Henry Smith of Elizabeth is critically ill.
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