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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1903
Page
3
Bargain shoppers are urged to inspect the Shoe Department for steeply reduced footwear and hats. Men’s W L Douglas and other shoes drop to about 1.56 to 1.75, ladies slippers to 1.00, and assorted hats and ties are marked down as the store clears odds and ends.
A motivational pitch urges immediate action on life insurance with quotation from Elbert Hubbard. It warns procrastination harms business success and champions bold pursuit. Readers are urged to contact BULLEIT to obtain a policy from Mutual Life of New York.
The report lists numerous visitors and locals in Wyandotte area during the week. Names include Wm McCullum from Leavenworth guiding cows in the cave, Sylvia Sharp and Ada Rothrock visiting, and others from Corydon Indianapolis New Orleans New Albany Tower and beyond.
Farmers are dizzying potatoes. Miss Anna Pulver visits New Albany. Lula Knapp reports fifty pound rush. Sam Fink and Minnie Fulner visit Miss Cora Chappel. Charley Bauer and Maud Wolfe spend Sunday with Grover Hauer and Ida Harris. Ice cream social at George McGraffin's draws a crowd. Martin Lemmon and sister Emma with two Kansas City children visit local friends.
A powder magazine explosion in Lowell Massachusetts on July 30 caused massive devastation. nitric acid mistaken for water triggered two blasts destroying 70 buildings within yards and killing twenty residents while injuring many more.
Salina Kansas reports a cloudburst flooding lowlands from near Lindsberg northwest of Ellsworth. Villages Carnero Brookville and Bavaria submerged with 1 to 3 feet of water. Twelve miles of Union Pacific track west of Brookville washed off the roadbed delaying a midnight passenger train. Passengers aided in cribbing the line as water covered the tracks and crops suffered.
The national executive committee of the United People’s party approves the conference of reform parties and its proclamation. It calls a meeting in St Louis on February 22, 1904 and favors an early 1904 nominating convention before Republicans and Democrats. A legislation committee led by J A Edgerton will organize reform parties nationwide.
Chas B. Kopp, auctioneer, offers satisfied service in every sale and is open for engagements. Interested parties are advised to speak early as much of his time is already taken.
The Corydon and New Albany route is surveyed again by a construction firm seeking a two percent subsidy to cover tunnel costs. The Dem ocrat argues the line would become a major taxpayer and urges citizens to back the subsidy before the opportunity fades.
The bank’s assets on August 3, 1903, totaled $467,746.59 with depositors’ liabilities and stockholder liability bringing total liabilities to $867,746.59. This marks the largest asset and depositor base in the bank’s history, highlighting substantial financial exposure.
Picnic and fair use goose-neck soda water outfit offered by J P Isterling Druggist Corydon Junction. Sale notice notes affordable price and suitable for events.
The Corydon Canning Company reorganizes with F. M. Bartley as President and S. D. Bartley as Secretary and Treasurer. R. C. Ellis becomes Vice President, Emery Breeden a Director, and most stock is held by the Hopkins Fertilizer Co. and the Bartleys. Plant overhaul completed, new management promises a successful future. employment inquiries directed to the Secretary.
A young man visiting his sweetheart kissed her despite her protests and provoked her father to fetch his new gun. The suitor fled through the house, shattering four window panes, and was last seen running bareheaded down the road.
An oracle split town killers into seven groups: those who drift from it to slip away, opponents of improvement, quiet-town adherents, town owners who imagine full control, deriders of public spirited new ideas, those who harm others' credit or reputation, and those who seize town power without paying. A few killers exist in every town, but no one knows who they are or how to handle them.
The fragment mentions Heidelburg and Grove families, Jacob Mauek and kin, Lafe Sholf and farms, and a picnic at Sulphur We. Miss Mabel Hudson displaces the family of Eli Mathes, with a Sunday school gathering planned for the celebration at Moenusent Ridge. The Ladies Aid Society to host an ice cream supper at Heideloc Church to support the church.
Mr Conrad of Carydo sold a new piano to John Kirkhanm last week. Mrs John B Meyer of Louisville visited family here and returned home. Miss Clara Seitz celebrated a birthday with a piano gift from her brother Joan B Meyer of Louisville.
Two marriage license notices listed: John E. Ashton and Rachael P. Sherman, and Roy F. Mundy and Mary Howerton. The records record the couples as applying for marriage licenses.
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