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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1919
Page
8
Local Corydon items reflect sales needs and community life with notices of for sale items farm work and housing. Residents Mrs Habermel and Miss Bottorff are mentioned along with visitors Roy Davis and Willard Jefferson Bottorff. The column notes shopping, renewals, school activities and sheep shearing plans for spring.
Readable items include church and family news, visits by relatives, a birth in New Albany, travel to Columbus, and local business notes. The roundup mentions postal mail route changes, ship and towboat operations, a death and burial in Corydon, and a disturbance in Silver Grove with a suspect fined.
A flood of small items recounts weekend visits in Corydon and Louis ville. People attend services in Mauckport and New Amsterdam while others buy buicks and seek repairs. The column notes misstatements about Mrs Eliza Benson Bruce and updates on local workers, church memberships, and a soldier overseas.
Local advertising notes that J J Bullett & Son offer a range of paints suitable for houses barns floors and other projects. The message emphasizes availability of supplies for painting needs and home improvement.
Local items report travel of Mrs. Dr. T. G. Van Hook to Falls Cities and J H Bickle visiting his ill sister in Louisville. Miss Alleine Brown heads to Indianapolis for teacher training. Jersey bull sold for 125 dollars. Delco Light man visits Corydon. Gou ld praises Foster. News of Presbyterians reports New Era Movement success. A blind horse fell near Corydon depot. Soldiers in France send letters home detailing snow and duty. Meech purchases a Cole seven passenger car for Corydon–New Albany runs. Kessler and Herthel from Morgan township report German military service and sons in the War. Mrs. George Kopp of Pleasant Ridge is ill.
August Yoehem, son of Mr and Mrs Jos Yoehem, underwent surgery at Camp Zachary Taylor after serving overseas in France where an abscess formed on his lungs. A second operation found a piece of instrument left inside his body. he remained critically ill but showed improvement by yesterday. Ed Emily, after a year in France with injuries and hardships, returned home to Crandal still recovering. Additional notes mention upcoming news on area soldiers and a marriage license granted to Hamond J Best and Theresa A Thevenot.
James A Harbeson and George G Schaffer, Union soldiers from Franklin township, visited Corydon to file declarations in the County Auditor's office for tax exemption on $1000 of property. The law exempts $1000 for Mexican and Civil War veterans and widows under conditions, with filings due by May 1. no blanks yet available as of April 29. Exemption applies to soldiers over 70 and widows over 66 unless taxable property exceeds $5000.
Mrs Lucinda Daley Toops died after a long illness at age sixty nine in Posey township. She was the wife of William Toops and survived by four children, with four children having died earlier. Surviving relatives include Mrs Ning Schaffer Emma Fites George and Henry Toops. Funeral service was held at Bethesda cemetery Friday morning.
Corporal Hewitt Cunningham delivered a splendid address at Corydon Methodist church last Sunday evening to a large audience. The report notes space constraints and promises to publish the full account next week after the important meeting in Corydon.
A notice announces a Gregg Lodge meeting at Greece Lodge Hall in Carydan on Thursday night, May 8. Officers of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows will attend and degree work will follow with refreshments served. A good attendance from lodges in the county is desired.
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