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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1922
Page
2
The Corydon Democrat notes its circulation of 3400 and provides advertising rates. Display ads cost 40 cents per inch per insertion with readers 5 cents per line. Special 8 line rate available for standing ads longer than three months with details on application.
The Indianapolis News notes the Senate plans a final tariff vote next Saturday with Republicans holding votes and Democrats likely to swing. It cites the Fordney bill changes, House resistance to senate amendments, and potential conference talks to merge plans. It warns rising living costs and urges reducing production costs to restore prosperity.
Representative L. C. Knight of Ohio announced he will offer his resignation when feasible to honor his district after opposing the Fordney McCumber Tariff bill and the ship subsidy. He criticized party leaders for backing the administration program and urged conviction over political gain.
James R. Howard president of the American Farm Bureau told a Monticello audience that farm prosperity hinges on settling world conditions. He argued Europe is the sole market for surplus U.S. produce and domestic prices depend on the European market, criticizing Harding era policy and Republican actions.
The Indianapolis Star reports last Thursday the paper carried a picture featuring President Warren G. Harding Senator Janes F. Watson of Indiana and Miss Mary Carrichael of Muncie Indiana. The caption notes Mary visited the White House to relay Indiana will stay Republican this year as it did in 1920. The column questions Indiana voters about support for the Republican administration and recalls the May primary repudiation of Harding by Indiana Republicans.
Mrs. Anna Bowles Wiley, Terre Haute writer, travels to Glacier National Park as guest of the Black Feet Tidians for one month to research tribe history. She is made a full squaw with the name Hurry Moon, and will participate in a powwow after arrival.
Trustee John Meurer announces sale of Franklin School Township bonds at 2 PM August 28 1922 in Lanesville Indiana. Bonds total 21000 par value 700 each 30 bonds bearing 5 percent interest payable semi annually over 15 years. Proceeds fund a new joint grade and high school building. Bids may be rejected and sale requires Advisory Board concurrence.
Indiana State Fair officials arrange a Jersey Cattle educational display in Indianapolis from September 4 to 10. The American Jersey Cattle Club will staff a 40 by 80 foot tent near cattle barns with lectures, live cow judging, and life sized farm photos. The exhibit aims to show breeding and production value to dairymen and consumers and to attract Jersey breeders to the state and national meetings.
A petition to change a section of Concord and Wesley Chapel Highway in Heth township Harrison County Indiana will be heard September 5 1922 by the Board of County Commissioners. Signers include Hobart Frank and twelve others seek vacating the intervening road between points near Lopp schoolhouse and intersections along lands of Hobart Frank Arthur Miller and Anus Winders. Attorneys Kirkham and O Bannon represent petitioners.
A legal notice from Harrison County Indiana requests the Board of Commissioners to appoint three viewers to consider location of a new public highway in Harrison Township. The petition, signed by Charles Sieg and 23 others with attorney Clyde R. Lottick, describes the proposed route across multiple lands including those of Rochester Sieg and Gleb, ending at Corydon and Weidelburg road. The hearing is set for September 5, 1922.
Twelve or fifteen tons of timothy hay eight tons of baled straw and a half interest in thirty acres of growing corn will be sold at Jerry Smiths sale three miles east of Corydon on the Corydon and New Albany pike Thursday August 24. Sale begins at 9 o clock A M. Twelve months credit with six percent discount for cash on all sums over five dollars. Lunch will be served at noon. Auctioneer Esse Richard.
A Crandall Indiana nursery owner advertises a method to obtain 100 apple trees for planting and promises potential earnings of at least $100 in about twelve hours. J A Salmon of Indiana Creek Nurseries claims 25 years of experience and offers guidance for a fee.
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