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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1917
Page
7
Corydon and nearby areas buzz with visits from Indianapolis to Louisville as residents attend weddings, funerals, and social calls. Local ads promote Foley’s Confectionery, Riely’s Drug Store, and Majestic Demonstrator at the fair. Lost silver watch and requests for help with chores and jobs appear amid farm sales and employment notices.
Mr. J. V. Morgan secretary treasurer of the Farmers Guide Publishing Company Huntington and his wife their young daughter and Mr. Fred Wine Brenner visited Corydon last Monday morning. The Farmers Guide is a popular farm paper distributed widely in Harrison County. The party continued to Evansville via Palmyra Paoli and Mitchell.
Rev M A Cossaboom pastor of Corydon Christian church traveled to Tiverton Nova Scotia to visit his mother Mrs George Cossaboom aged about seventy five. He is one of ten children eight living in Nova Scotia two in the United States. He has not seen his family for eight years and will be gone about a month.
Fred Voelker a leading young Franklin township farmer visited Corydon on business last Monday. He farms forty acres on the home place where he was born and raised and has made notable progress. He has contributed to the Farmers' Guide and discussed farm interests with us, including a Sulphate of Ammonia article to be published next week in the Democrat.
Community notices report social visits in Corydon and surrounding towns with travels to Louisville Chicago and New Albany. Items mention Miss Tillie Roby visiting near La Cobia Miss Lou Fields and others plus sales inquiries and events including a MAJESTIC demonstration at Hurst Hardware and local auctions and funerals.
During the week starting August 15, customers who buy a MAJESTIC range will receive eight dollars worth of cooking utensils free. The gift is in addition to the usual price of the range, which remains unchanged. See them during the special demonstration at Hurst Hardware Co.
Lafe Robinson of Indianapolis visits his brother George Robinson manager of Cumberland Telephone Company in this place. Mr Robinson is interior decorator for the L S Users Company of Indianapolis. He says his company claims to be the third largest department store in the country after Wanamaker and Marshall Field.
Hon Remy Bierly of Pennville Indiana with wife and two children spent a week with his parents Mr and Mrs Fred Bierly and other relatives in Posey township returning home on Monday July 80. He is a farmer who will teach next year at Clayton Indiana.
Community members travel for family visits and work. Mrs. Clarence Lockhart visits her father John Morris in Corydon as others, like Ruth Morris and Ada Conlee, spend time with relatives. Local tradesmen Bert Steepleton and Henry Johnson advertise painting and interior work while C A Warm reports a potato crop. Rev. Egger plans a church meeting at Valley City.
Thousands buy Majestics via personal recommendations. The store invites customers during the week starting August 13 as Majestic experts explain why this range is a kitchen champion, cooking and baking better while saving fuel and repair costs.
Elmer Franklin Munzer five year old son of Mr and Mrs Fred V Munzer Shively Kentucky has been seriously ill for a week with typhomalaria fever. His condition worsened last Friday requiring two doctors and his parents have applied damp clothes to his body day and night to control the fever. Doctor Shacklette of Pleasure Ridge Park visits daily.
Esther and Elizabeth Stallings of Webster township returned Friday from New Albany after a week with relatives. Neighbors surprised them Saturday evening with about thirty attendees, enjoying music, games, and refreshments of cake and lemonade. All had a good time.
Mrs Thomas W Knight returned home from Posey county after a week visiting relatives William and Richard Knight. In New Harmony she met Clarence P Wolfe editor of the New Harmony Times and Postmaster formerly of Elizabeth. She toured the library art gallery and museum where she saw the skeleton of the Civil War cavalry horse Old Flag which drew a pension for extraordinary service.
Mrs. Levi Snyder travels from Webster towne ship to Fountain county to visit her sons Alva and Otto Snyder. Families from Palmyra Louisville Detroit New Albany and Elizabeth host and visit relatives as August events and local notices unfold. A sewing club under Geo W Hoke in Elizabeth promotes government shirt work and a souvenir aeroplane offer appears in ads.
Mrs. Sherman Lofton of Lincoln Nebraska and her daughter visit her sister Mrs. John Denhart and nieces Mrs. Jos Zimmermann and Mrs. Jesse Kahle of Palmyra. Mrs L Lofton has lived in the West twenty three years and this is her seventeenth trip home.
Mr Ollie Bush and relative Cleon from Martinsburg attended the funeral along with Harry Funk from Boone township and Marcus Funk from Fort Benjamin Harrison. Dr Thomas Moser and wife, Mrs Alex Priest, Miss Gladys Fank, Miss Bernice Fank and Dr Bruce Fank of Louisville were all listed as relatives of the deceased.
Frank P. Lottich of Franklin township, a prominent Granger leader, was hurt while hauling a log near Corydon last Monday. A wagon wheel ran over his left leg as the log, 397 feet long, rested on the wagon. He cannot walk easily and misses leading the parade to the Big Grangers Picnic tomorrow.
The thirteenth Harrison County Holiness Association camp meeting runs from tomorrow through Sunday August 19 with daily services at 10 30 am 2 pm and 7 30 pm led by Rev John E Hewson of Indianapolis and Rev A B Clark of Topeka Kansas. Meals cost 25 cents and tents with bedding are provided at reasonable rates. Jasper N Davis is president and Geo F Pinske secretary of the association.
Five lots on Walnut Street and one house with four additional Chestnut Street parcels are offered. Good location. Property details listed under Nell Buileig. Sale terms not specified.
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