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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1903
Page
6
The Vatican announces Giuseppe Sarto patriarch of Venice chosen as Pope Pius X after a four day conclave. The new pontiff will receive diplomatic corps cardinals and bishops in ceremonies marking his accession. Resignations and other items follow in New York and Washington dispatches.
Elizabeth winds an update of social visits across New Albany Louisville Jeffersonville and Greenwood with Mrs Crettie Burton Miss Bessie Lord Mrs Laura Prompson Miss Ile Bowling and others. Several family members travel between Kentucky and Indiana as siblings and cousins attend to ill relatives and return home.
Net notes report visitors and family news from Sandy Stith to Rev Mason and Mitchem families. Mentions include Nettie Perry returning from New Albany Marian Mitchem from Louisville and a new girl birth at Mr and Mrs White. Rev Mason to speak at Ireland and Orwell events with Rev Collins preaching on the gifts of prayer.
An old allegorical scene shows a girl stepping on a snake while a grasshopper escapes, paralleled by a man who spends on a cyclone cellar but neglects family medicine. The piece extols Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a proven, prompt cure, advertised at Crosier's Corner Drug Store.
Harrison County Indiana Board of Commissioners advertises plans for a tree gravel road in Spencer township. Bids to be sealed and received by August 8 at Corydon Auditor's office. contract awarded to lowest responsible bidder if within estimate. bid bond required. work to start by November 1 or when bonds are sold.
Notice to Franklin township residents Harrison Indiana from the Board of Commissioners dated August 6 1903 calls for a vote at usual polling places on aiding the Louisville and Southern Indiana Traction Company railroad with 11351.90 in money up to 2 percent of taxable property. One half of the amount to be levied by a special tax in 1904 and the remainder in 1905 under applicable election laws. Witness GEO L. HESS Auditor.
Notice to Harrison township voters in Harrison county Indiana that the Board of Commissioners on August 6 193 authorized opening polls at usual voting places to decide on a $27 857 80 appropriation for the Louisville and Southern Indiana Railroad project. The amount may be levied as a two percent tax on taxable property with half via a special tax the current year and the remainder the following year. Witnessed and sealed by the Board.
In Harrison Circuit Court, September Term 1903, state of Indiana. Wim H. Davis as Administrator of Sarah A. Stromire deceased has filed final settlement accounts and vouchers. A hearing will occur September 11, 1903, for heirs creditors and legatees to appear show cause why the account should not be approved and to prove heirship.
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