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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1918
Page
5
The Corydon Democrat reports illness in the Reader family and sister Miss Anna. Local ads promote Geo Wahl’s tires and harness, with numerous visits from Louisville and Vincennes residents attending the Harrison County Fair. Several residents travel, socialize, and renew subscriptions as the county fair winds down.
Journal notes at the Corydon Fair include Jerry Rogers of Jeffersonville with friends and various exhibitors like George Wahl displaying water separators. Ed Blake walks on crutches after a leg injury. Misses Anna and Burnice Vernin visit from Crawford County. Mrs. William L. Marker of Detroit visits Corydon. Judge Ridley returns from Perry Circuit Court in hot terms. the Long family travels from Indianapolis to the fair and plans Florida winter. Albert Crecelius returns from Tridiana. anecdotal notes describe a ghostly sighting and local saw sharpening and shoemaking.
John T. Dredges, a Peffersonville teacher, spent last week with phone folks and attended the Pair. He has been at the Reformatory for almost four years. There were nearly 50 inmates, now about 440 remain, with some paroled and others moved to Michigan City State Prison or the State Penal Farm.
Mr and Mrs George J Stauth of Ford County Kansas spent the entire week at the Fair Mrs Stauth a prominent farmer and member of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture which runs the State Fair He is also President of the Ford County Farm Loan Association which secured loans for farmers totaling 250000 in that county.
Mr and Mrs Thram Mathes of Owensville Gibson County spent a week with relatives and attended the Fair returning home Saturday He has been away from the county thirty two years his first return He spent ten years in Arkansas and is engaged in farming James Rosenbarger of Fowler Benton County attended the Fair and visited relatives The Fair Ground office shows the Democrat ordered for a year Mr Tiesenbarger clerk for the Chas CC Bower Travel Farm There are 1890 acres in the travel farm with gravel sold at fifty five cents per cubic yard and twenty teams active on site
W Scott Dike of Owensville Illinois attends the Fair and renews his Democrat subscription. He reports 120 acres of corn forecast at fifty bushels per acre, grown with one helper then cultivated alone. His son John was killed in France on July 29 after a month’s service. Clyde remains in the United States with others in draft age. The family has three other sons and a fifty seven year old father ready to serve.
George Riley of New Albany visited his brother Judge William Ridley and attended the fair. Eva Farnssey of Evans Landing and David Dwight Brown of Decatur were married August 17 at the Main Street M E parsonage in New Albany. Uncle George, age 76, and his wife celebrate fifty years of marriage next year. Death in Georgetown follows illness. Asa Johnson, 37, survived by mother, sisters, and brothers. Local moves include J Forrest Mellon resigning from Louisville Varnish and moving to the Wm Ferree farm in Boone township. Various families, visits, and fair attendance noted, plus an estate sale of Valentine Cline in Corydon area set for September 4, 1918.
The column records sales by W. H. Bullett & Sons of farm machinery including wheat drills to be offered by John J. Brunner as administrator of Valentine Cline’s estate at the Cline farm on September 4 1918. It also notes visits by Mr. and Mrs. Conrad and family renewing a Democrat subscription during a county fair week and mentions Oscar Baker family staying with relatives in Harrison County and detailing their corn and wheat yields.
John J. Brunner as administrator of Valentine Cline's estate offers a public sale on Wednesday September 4 beginning at 9 30 a m. Items include a 16 horsepower Huber engine water tank Birdseil clover blower Rosenthal corn shredder Gaar Scott saw mill Great Western manure spreader and more plus cattle and household goods. RK Davis auctioneer al4 3w
Two seven year old mares offered for sale one in foal. Contact Ira Beeler in New Middletown Indiana via Eureka Phone or Corydon Exchange.
An official stamp and signature record the court seal affixed at Moryden on the th day of August AW 1915. James A. Watson clerk of Harrison Circuit Court notes the act.
Furnished or unfurnished four room cottsrr available to high L A Meceh in Los Angeles area.
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