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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1902
Page
8
The county towns submitted their school fund reports last week via their treasurers. Corypon Corypon and other towns listed receipts, disbursements, on hand balances, and tuition funds, detailing totals for Spec. Fund and Tuition Fund across multiple districts and treasurers.
List of Harrison county Indiana commissioners expenses from the August 1902 session includes road work, jail, asylum, and poor relief items with names like S D Alexander Co Washington and Benjamin Jordan Washington. Also notes the death of Uessler’s son James A Watson and a long obituary detailing his church service and family at New Middletown German Reformed burying ground.
A Panama Colombia physician reports a 16 year old girl with severe dysentery recovered after using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. She improved within eight hours and was fully well after a week. Also noted is a fatal accident near Effingham involving M Loy, grandson of Isaac Smith, with leg injuries and death after amputation. Funeral at the M E church.
Sioux City man says his 11 year old was poisoned by a weed and rubbed into his eyes. A neighbor recommended De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve which helped after several days. The ad claims the salve cures skin diseases, cuts, burns and piles, warning of counterfeits.
Mrs Adam Bauer remains seriously ill while Mrs George Foreman, improved, returns from Louisville visit. Miss Helen Bauer travels to Louisville with friends. Mrs Brown and Miss Prances Touiaville visit relatives. Miss Florence Birdwell returns from Louisville to spend summer locally. Mrs Eva Kersting and daughter Lizzie return home after two months with relatives. Miss Curtis Baker of Bookwalter recounts a cholera infantum cure using Chamberlain s remedy. Crosier s Corner Drug Store selling it.
Geo W Fry of Viola Iowa praises Kodol for curing months of stomach trouble and recommends it to a neighbor with dyspepsia. The advertisement touts Kodol as a reconstructive tonic that digests any good food and endorses taking a dose after meals.
Ea Sterrett is our popular bunter. J H Feller lost a valuable colt last week. Cort Kintner from Wyandotte visits relatives here. Miss Sadie Good of Louisville visits here. Mrs Elsie Sonner and Alma visit the Sonners. A large crowd attended the basket meeting and baptizing at Blue River Chapel last Thursday. Young folks held a social at Mrs Julia Brown's Friday night for Sadie Good and Cort Kintner. Ice cream and cake served. good time reported. Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cake one day. No Cure, no Pay. Price 25 cents.
An advertisement claims kidney and bladder disease affect both women and men, causing loss of ambition and cheer. It promotes Swamp Root as a remedy with immediate effects and offers a free sample and pamphlet by mail from Dr. Kilmer & Co. in Binghamton New York.
Nine large adjoining lots totaling nearly two acres in Corydon Junction Indiana. Three lots include a two story store and dwelling with stone cellar and cistern plus warehouses suitable for grain or fertilizer. Six vacant lots offer pasture or garden space with mature maples along the front fence. Address correspondence to J. Be KePley Crandall Ind. Jy2 8w.
Four grade cows aged three and four years are good breeders. Two heifers aged one year. Two top bull calves five and six months old sired by British Flag. All in good color and quality. If you are not nearby, write and I will bring them to the fair. Prices reasonable.
Will sell or trade for Louisville property the following in Laconia two desirable lots with store room barn ice house hennery pear orchard 6 room dwelling cistern out buildings and fruit variety all in first class condition Anxious to sell or trade John A Hause Laconia Ind Ww jx30 te
Catholic church choir sponsors festival on church grounds in New Middletown with refreshments including fresh fish and ice cream. Night program features an ice cream festival and a lecture. Assisting at high mass is a deacon and subdeacon at 9 am with vespers at 3 pm. Corydon band to provide music.
George Wolfe will soon move to Corydon. An ice cream social is planned at J. L. Windell's on Thursday night. Last Sunday a camp meeting drew attendees from this place to Corydon. About 35 to 40 relatives gathered at William Watson’s home around 10 o clock with watermelons and ice cream served at noon. The Valley City and Mauckport baseball clubs will play here next Saturday. J. C. Lopp shipped a 1500 pound beef last week.
An advertisement promotes One Minute Cough Cure as a fast, safe remedy for colds coughs croup throat and lung troubles. It claims to reduce inflammation clear the head soothe the mucus membrane and strengthen immune response, appealing to parents and noting L A Rigby & Son as the seller.
Executor of the last will Philip Kurtz estate files final settlement in Harrison Circuit Court. Hearing set for Monday September 2 1902 at 8th day of September 1902. Creditors heirs and legatees must appear and show cause why settlement should not be approved.
The Trustees proposed annual expenditures and levies for Franklin Township Harrison County Indiana at the advisory board meeting. Figures include township 18 cents per hundred dollars, local tuition 25 cents and poll 15 cents, special school 10 cents, road 20 cents plus 10 cent additional, poor 2 cents, totaling 85 cents per hundred plus 15 cent poll. Assessed valuation and polls listed. signed by Trustee Martin Hausz on August 7 1902.
Jackson township Harrison county Indiana proposes for the year 1903 expenditures and tax levies at a September 2 1902 trustees advisory board meeting. It lists township expenditures 650 tax 14 cents per hundred dollars local tuition 1663 tax 35 cents per hundred dollars and 25 cents per poll special school tax 650 tax HM cents per hundred dollars road tax 237 tax 5 cents per hundred dollars additional road tax 475 tax 10 cents per hundred dollars and poor expenditures 108 tax 2 4 cents per hundred dollars. Total expenditures 3783 total tax 80. The net taxable property 475 290 polls 245. Signed James L Rector Trustee August 4 1902.
The trustee Emmett Beanblossom proposes estimates for the yearly ex Board meeting on September 2 1902. Disbursements total 8810 with taxes 109 cents per dollar of valuation and 75 cents per poll. Assessed valuation is 336635 with mortgage exemption credit 21960. 228 polls in township.
A male resident of Elizabeth Posey township Harrison county Indiana will apply on September first 1902 to the Harrison county Board of Commissioners for a license to retail intoxicating liquors in a described ground floor room of a two story frame building on Main street lot 8 block 7 adjoining lots 7 and 8. The room measures 22 by 16 feet with an eight foot ceiling and includes a front door and two front windows. The applicant also seeks permission to sell cigars and tobacco in connection with the business at WILLIAM E COTNER.
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