Surprise Birthday Dinner at Brook Indiana
July 15 gathering at the Kirkham home near Brook Indiana honors Mrs. Kirkham on her twenty second birthday. Attendees include the Kirkhams Tindalls Watsons McDaniels Kirkhams and Rhodes families with a cake of twenty two candles. A chicken and ice cream supper is planned for August 18 at Moores Chapel basement Rosewood, all invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison County
Herman Kirkham
Brook
Ind
Kathleen
Virginia
Pauline
Orville
Elmer McDaniel
Ezra Kirkhan
Krussel
Clarence Rhodes
Clarence Rheades
Strand Watson
Clarence Rhoades
Ezra Kirkham
Ben Tindall
Moores Chapel
Rosewood
Indiana pageants honor county historians in August
August events feature Tipton County Historical Society pageant on August 16 in Tipton with Marie Purvis as author and Randolph County pageant on August 30 in Winchester by Philip Kabel and Esther Simons. Notes praise library workers, local history efforts, and Civil War memorial proposals across Indiana communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tipton County Historical Society
Tipton
Randolph County Historical Society
Winchester
Tipton County
Marie Purvis
Indiana Historical Society
Dr. J. Pentecost
Meyers
Randolph County
Philip Kabel
Local Historical Society
Esther Simons
Kabel
Hristorical Commission
Pleasant A. Hackleman
Bush County
General Hackleman
Indiana
Ira W. Ayres
Court House
Myra Richards
Indianapolis
Rushville
Walter R. Thomas
Robert L. Tompkins
Robert E. Mansfield
Walter F. Easley
Omer Trusler
E. J. Knecht
Franklin County
Memorial Park
Rush County
Paul Dresser
Wabash
Uinois
United States Trust Company
Jerre Haute
Terre Haute
Alleged Goebel Killer Serves Prison Term
Recalled Goebel assassination memories surface as James B. Howard, once life term for complicity with Henry Youtzey and Caleb Powers, now serves forgery sentence in Stuttgart Arkansas. At 62 he is serving a second term after a prison escape was thwarted by a heavy posse. he surrendered with quip about Youtzey in the ministry and Powers in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Goebel
Frankfort
James B. Howard
Mountaineer
Henry Youtzey
Caleb Powers
Stuttgart
Arkansas
Howard
Powers
Kentucky
Congress
Youtzey
Elizabeth Library Station Opens For Posey Township Readers
Posey township residents may borrow books at Elizabeth or the Corydon main library. The Elizabeth Presbyterian Manse hosts the new station open Wednesdays and Saturdays 1 30 to 5 30 PM and 6 30 to 8 PM. Thomas P Smith assessor has three children and five grandchildren all granddaughters born on Sunday two born the same day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Posey Township
Elizabeth
Corydon
Thomas P. Smith
Posy Township
Visits From Coast to Coast
Mrs. Eliza Funk returns home after an eleven month absence spent visiting relatives and Harrison county friends across Oklahoma Texas and California She crossed the country visiting half brother Thomas J Lingenfelter in Oklahoma City and friends in Oklahoma City and Los Angeles She notes Harrison county people living elsewhere and reporters their news while mentioning local milling business days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza Funk
Harrison County
Oklahoma
Texas
California
Thomas J. Lingenfelter
Oklahoma City
Ira Benton
Elias Pfrimmer
James Binkley
Oliver P. Mauck
Cleveland
Okla
Warrison
Annis Spaulding
Husbband
James Spaulding
Dallas
Wilkins
Fulton
Julia Mauck
Sam C. Mauck
Jim Pete” Glenn
Walter
Harrison
Indiana reports higher state death rate for first half of 1993
H M Wright, director of vital statistics, notes 21 302 deaths in the first six months of 1993, up from 18 072 in 1922, lifting the state death rate from 12 9 to 14 5 per 1000. Births numbered 30 453, up 885 from last year, with pneumonia, tuberculosis and influenza leading causes. A letter from Mrs Hattie Biehl of Chicago says she plans to spend time in Indiana in August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
H. M. Wright
Division of Vital Statistics
State Department of Health
Hattie Biehl
Chicago
Plan Dry Navy to Patrol Ohio River
Indiana and Kentucky prohibition chiefs B C Morgan and B W Moore propose a coastal guard patrol on the Ohio River to curb rum runners transporting illicit liquor from Indiana and Kentucky to Jeffersonville and Louisville. They urge deputizing Louisville Coast Guard personnel to arrest violators. the unit reportedly numbers about ten men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio River
Louisville
Indiana
Kentucky
Jeffersonville
B. C. Morgan
Indianapolis
Prohibition
B. W. Moore
Bedford
P. Green Miller
Tennessee
United States Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Harrison County Fair Subscriptions at Democrat Office
Message states availability of subscriptions to the Indiana Farmers' Grade at the Harrison County Fair being held at the Democrat office. Signed by S. H. Armstrong and dated 4-1-2-w.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison County Fair
Baldwin
Harrison County
Democrat
Indiana Farmers
S. H. Armstrong
Also Mentioned on This Page
W.h.bulleit & Sons Agents
Corydon, Indiana
Ernest Conner
Ontrometrist
Conner
New Albany, Ind
Historical Commission
Morton
Centerville
Thomas E. Downs
Warrick County
Ing
Warrick County Historical Society
Vincennes Historical Society
Vincennes Commercial
Clementine Weisert
Fort Warne
Curtis Shake
Culbertson
Wabash Canal
Vincennes
Middle West
Northwest Territory
Joseph Chartrand D. PD
Cathredal
Evansville
Lucy M. Elliott
Charles Atphry
West Baden
Edison
Strument
Columbia Grafonola
Martin and Conn
Columbia Records
Chicago Opera Co
Galli Curri
Chaliapon, McCormack, DePachman
Baldwin Piano
Frank W. Shireman
Basta
Goebel
New Middletown Milling Company
Percy Garner
Tata
Corydon Junction
New Albany
C. Eskew
Southern Railway System
Alex Miller
John H. Hegh
Bulleti
Corydon, Ind
Swarens
Adam
Undertakers
Ramsey Crandall and
Depauw
H. H. Miller
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