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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1919
Page
1
In Harrison County a countywide notice promotes airless tires that need no pumping or tubes and claim to be durable, safe, and inexpensive in the long run. The company representative F PINAIRE, Eureka, Indiana, offers these tires through Corydon Exchange with contact details provided.
Six county club winners travel from Harrison to Purdue University for a Farmers Short Course. Winners include Arla Miller in corn, Carl Neely in tobacco, Faye Singleton in sewing, Bessie Flock in canning, Clarence Gettelfinger in pig club, and Fern Grable in chickens. Financed by Corydon merchants led by W.H. Keller Co. and others.
A brief obituary note from Allie mourns the deaths of two loved ones, Little Ployd and Leo Quebberian. It speaks of grief, faith, and hope in heaven, noting two voices now stilled and two places vacant while expressing belief in reunion on the celestial shore.
The Mathews Co of Port Clinton Ohio advertises for carpenters cabinet makers boat builders joiners and painters skilled in high class finishing. Bright well ventilated plant in a pleasant town on Lake Erie midway between Toledo and Cleveland with ample fishing hunting boating and nearby summer resorts. Steady work offered. al6-Tw
Local farmer Sam Windell, described as one of the best in the area, sold a one year old son south of Corydon for 72 dollars and 60 cents in a recent sale.
At the Schneider home on Easter Monday April 21 at 6 pm Miss Susie Schneider married Charles Rumbley of New Albany in a quiet ceremony led by Rev C M Wachter. Miss Edna Schneider played Melody of Love as the couple sealed their vows. Rumbley, a longtime Arkansas agriculture and transit worker, will reside in New Albany with his bride.
Mrs. F A Ulen of Corydon will serve as War Savings Stamp chairman for Harrison County Indiana, the first Indiana woman appointed to a county WSS chair. She will direct education, War Saving Societies, and county sales, as part of a statewide reorganization led by Robert B Springsteen. Gid C Jones of San Francisco and Mrs Jones are visiting Corydon as the Jones brothers expand operations across five plants producing vinegar and fruit juice with large sales figures.
The ad promotes paint H and W pure lead and oil products at Hurst Hardware. It urges buyers to check prices before purchasing during the painting season.
A social gathering at the home of Mr and Mrs Peter Stewart took place Saturday night April 19 1919 near Elizabeth. Attendees included Margie Kron Pearl Case Nellie Brinley Beatrice McKinney Catherine McRae Anna Cromwell Mayme Miller Mrs Josie Stewart and numerous others. Music was provided by Margie Kron Roy Stewart Robert Cooper and Horace Stewart, with guests departing late hoping for a future event.
A Harrison county offer advertises a lighting plant large enough to supply twelve rooms and outbuildings. The first plant will be sold for $250 cash with house wiring included. The ad notes an earlier misprint stating $25 instead of $250 and lists two phones for contact.
Brown and Davidson, local butchers, bought a beef animal that could not be used because the animal had been feeding on wild onions. The meat was returned to the owner and may be used for hamburger sausage.
J. J. Ballett & Son advertise 9 6w screen doors and screen wire in season. Albert Fogal of Farmer City Iloi nois spent a week with his mother Mrs. Minerva Fogal four miles south of Corydon. Fogal’s family owns an eighty acre farm. he expects 3500 bushels of grain this year. Stoy and Morris Rhodes live nearby. Mrs. Fogal is a Harrison county girl formerly Minnie Rowe daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Jesse Rowe now near Clay City. The Fogal children are Annie Catherine Martha and Maurice. Richard R. Sigler was discharged from Camp Zachary Taylor April 18. He served largely at New Haven Conn in the Army Laboratory at Yale University and later received treatment at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington D C for an ear problem.
An advertisement claims catarrh is widespread and incurable, offering Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy. It states the product is taken internally and promises a $100 reward if it fails to cure, urging readers to send for circulars and testimonials from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
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