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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1903
Page
7
Corydon area notes report social calls visiting relatives and neighbors from New Albany to Laconia. Local events include ice cream supper in Laconia to benefit a church, a gravel road vote in Spencer Township, and a wedding at the Presbyterian parsonage. Fire damaged a dwelling in another township with substantial loss noted.
An English expert forecasts Britain’s remaining coal reserves at 1.684 trillion tons, enough for about 370 years at current mining rates. In 1900 world coal output was 5.6204 billion tons, with Britain at 229 million and the United States at 245 million, leaving roughly 16 percent for others.
A Boston scene recalls Mary Livermore as a girl answering a door for a dripping visitor who asks for the principal. She treats him with kindness, then learns the visitor is Ralph Waldo Emerson whose presence unlocks courtesy in others.
In a western Scottish town a town clerk named Paul loses his fee in a railway accident and receives an artificial limb funded by the council. Months later his other leg is fractured in another accident, sparking local gossip as residents debate which ankle or leg truly belongs to the town.
Sallie and Willie discuss a girl who boasted of kisses from presidents in infancy. She shifts from Grant to Trayes and foresees claims of Roosevelt in childhood, as noted in Roller Monthly.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Press features a witty exchange about financial woes with lines about a bank’s status and a rising balance. The quip hints at a personal exchange on money matters and public interest in banking.
A brief, ambiguous Toledo Blade fragment reports a self referential shooting claim. The text implies Snodgrass and Spruceberry-Lhat as names and questions who fired, ending with an unclear confession about who shot whom, with no police report noted.
An Irish traveler and a Frenchman part on the steamer wharf. The Trishman waves linn to his friend and shouts a farewell phrase while the Frenchman bows politely in return.
The young Woman asks if it is hard to be a detective and Old Slockshaw answers that it is very hard. The remark highlights how detectives must study constantly to imitate fiction writers.
A fragment from the New York Evening Journal depicts a mock exchange about driving like a woman with shouted signals of Gid-ap. The quote captures a humorous, racialized sports banter typical of early 20th century paper entertainment.
Indianapolis Aug 3 A southbound interurban car 108 crashed into a northbound train three miles south of Mooresville injuring over 38 people two possibly fatally. The southbound car carried parkbound passengers. the northbound had few. Frank Easterday, the motorman, was uninjured.
Lanesville LA M Ersener Ski Mi and Mrs Samuel Wrieht and Mrs Peter Loew are on the sick list. Mrs Julia Yost visits relatives in Louis ville. Mrs Cathiarine Deusser south of town visiting relatives in Louissile. Otto and Misses Addie and Tillie Hire visited the Woysindette Cave last week. Mrs Metullum and son Elmer of Leavenworth visited her sister Mrs Sam Wright recently. Mrs Sarah Sack and daughter Emma of St. Jenis visit relatives in the Plat Waoads. John Gating and Frank Lastant made a wagon trip to Taylor township last week. Mrs W J Cunningham visits her daughter Mrs Lb O Peareh at Bouquet Penn.
The incident follows a mass escape from Folsom prison. Joe Murphy serving 14 years for robbery was shot dead at Pilot Hill. S. M. Gordon, leader of the gang sentenced to 45 years, deserted his followers. Eleven outlaws head toward the Sierra Nevada as sheriffs and militia chase them with about 20 guards from Folsom engaged. Cobos Deprived of Command. Herran notes Panama governorship changes amid arrests by Cobos. War game opens at Bar Harbor with ships ordered to coast stations to monitor the Atlantic approach.
Canton Ohio hosts a Home Week gathering where storm disrupts the morning session. Martin J. Dodge and J K Killgrew urge permanent road improvements as the convention adopts resolutions for federal highway funding. In Evansville Indiana rioting leads to the killing of a police officer Louis Massey. his wife, the rioter’s wife, dies after going mad and being struck by a train on a Kentucky bridge.
In Caracas on July 29 General Antonio Ramos, one of the last revolution chiefs in the field, surrendered to the government with 400 men and their arms near Santa Lucia. Separate dispatch from New Rochelle reports a July 20 fire destroying the automobile and motor works of Clifford W Bonneville, promising heavy losses.
The Trustee of Washington Township Harrison County announces the Advisory Board will meet August 1 to review the annual expenditures and tax levies. Proposals include township and local tuition expenditures, road and poor funds, special school tax, and totals for expenditures and taxes with assessed valuations and net taxable property. The meeting, at the trustee’s office, begins at five o’clock p.m. on September 1, 1908.
The Trustee of Posey township in Posey county proposes expenditures and tax levies for 1904 at a meeting in Elizabeth on September 1. It lists township expenditures, special school tax, road tax, additional road tax, poor relief, and net taxable property with polls totaling 207. Name: John L. Kessinger, Trustee. Dated August 1, 1903.
The trustee Austin McCauley announces the advisory board meeting at the trustee's office on September 1 at nine am to propose township expenditures of 3600 and a 24 cent tax per hundred with 20 cent per poll. Local tuition 800 and 35 cent tax per hundred plus 24 cent per poll. special school tax 400 and 25 cent per hundred plus 50 per poll. Road tax 254 with 13 cent per hundred. additional road tax 200 at 10 cent per hundred. Poor expenditures 80 with 2 cent per hundred. Total expenditures 200 and total tax 1.10 per hundred and one dollar per poll. Taxables: lands and improvements valued at 200000 and 134 polls. Dated July 29, 1908.
The Trustee of Scott Township Harrison County Indiana outlines for the Advisory Board at its annual meeting the projected expenditures and taxes for the year Sept 1 18. The figures include township and local tuition expenditures special school tax rond tax poor expenditures and total valuations and indebtedness. Auditor WAL BENNETT dated Aug 1 1 85.
The undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of Jacobd Has late of Harrison County Indiana deceased. The estate is solvent. Adtur August 1008.
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