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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1906
Page
6
Hancock area residents report farm transfers with Hancock selling land to Benj Agan and John Henninger. Visits pay praise to Corydon and Ramsey households while relatives travel to Illinois and North Dakota for work. Community members attend fish fries, church services, and wood gathering as Aunt Bettie and others recover from illness.
Lanesville residents report health improvements and visits from relatives in Louisville and Jeffersonville. A funeral in New Albany is noted with attendees including Joseph Bachmann and his mother. Several local families are cited visiting kin and enhancing homes, with October activity and weekend guests listed.
Miss Maggie Baiy of New Albany visited her mother last week while Miss Willie Singleton near Corydon is with Mrs Rose Yeager. The Adams sisters of New Middleton visit Nate Lamping as families attend to Mr Fred Shewmaker. Mrs Mary Frakes, widow of William Frakes, was buried at Manckport. The M E preacher Rev Luscher spoke Sunday night. Will Foster recovers from diphtheria. Benj F Yeager returns to his farm. Philip Miller moves to Mill street. Schools grow with 50+ transfers. High School led by Prof Knauss will graduate several. Tulsa Hays and Mrs Carrie Hays lead the primary and intermediate departments.
Elizabeth L Winders reports the community shutdowns in schools and churches due to diphtheria. Otis Laduke starts at a new home, John Cline is sick, Ralph Kirk visits his aunt, Mrs E L Smith, Walter Kron relocates to New Albany.
A collection of brief items from Burnville reports visits and travels. ABE WILLIAMS and Miss Icy Byrne return home from New Albany. Columbus Maymen visits Sulphur. Frank Williams hosts at Crandall. Alva Ward campaigns for sheriff. Verna Charley visits Miss Mosier. Charles Summers heads north to husk corn. Hazy town news includes school progress with Prof. Ed Walk and Miss Lizzie Houser, plus local illnesses and a moving picture show in the north.
Wheat sowing is over in this vicinity. Deen Frakes and family visited I. G. Reby’s last Sunday. Mrs. Martha Bove and daughter visited relatives in Louisville last week. Candidates are numerous. Ethel Reed fell from a mule and crushed a foot. Alva Taylor and wife visited Willard Tindall. Mauckport road repairs are underway. George Young completed a new house and barn. Cortez Watson and wife praise Kansas. A new Mauckport to New Amsterdam turnpike progresses. Maggie Applegate of Utica, Neb., visits then returns home. Central Camp Modern Woodmen held a well attended supper with P. J. Strack of New Albany as speaker.
Instructions detail ballot marking, straight ticket rules, use of blue pencils, machine voting, and affidavit help. The section also covers penalties for buying or selling votes under the 1905 act, including fines up to fifty dollars and ten-year disqualification from office.
Bradford update reports a boy born to George Feber, hog shipments to New Albany, home improvements, business trips, a Thanksgiving shooting match, a revival at Snyder's Chapel, a planned sawmill move, visits by Ed Ellis and Anna Bune, a worker recovered from injury, party loyalty in a Cox Zenor era, families moving to Georgetown, a priest buying a buggy, sorghum season ending, and local residents hauling two carloads of wheat to Corydon Junction.
A list of names and addresses noting subscribers who have paid or renewed their THE DEMOCRAT subscriptions since the last report. The roster includes residents from Corydon Elizabeth New Salisbury Palmyra Laconia Palmyra Fort Worth Cincinnati and other towns with multiple rural routes and out of state entries.
Obituary note honoring Ella Shuck who died October 18 1906 after typhoid fever. Mentions 38 years of life with husband John Shuck, parents Henry and Mrs Tindall, sister Mrs John Stonecipher, and enduring faith in God. Expresses grief and consolation for a future meeting beyond death.
Earnest Bitner is on the sick list. Grandma Dyer repairs her house. Peter Rush visited James Lamb and wife last week. Frank Thomas left Monday for Valparaiso to attend school. L R Swarens of Ramsey visited Chas Bye last week. Mrs Chas Bye visited sister in New Albany last week. Mrs Oscar Lamb and children visited relatives at English last week. Miss Clara Bowman of New Albany visited relatives here Sunday. Robert Pitt of New Albany moved household goods here last week. J E Wright, carpenter in New Albany, was here last week due to illness. Mrs C N Weacshers and family will move to Vincennes where husband works for Sun Oil Co.
A Sunday gathering at Mrs Dortha Bowman’s Crandall area home honored Mrs Bowman and her brother Harve LaHue of Missouri. Harve, 81, plans to return home soon after a dinner for fifty-one relatives. Participants included Charles Bowman, John Bowman, James Bowman, George LaHue, and many others.
Hill Grove notes progress under Dan Neely. Social items: Curry Cunningham visited home folks. Willie Rhodes family with David Stonecipher. Georgie and Olive Windell with Hattie Binkley. Mary Howkman with Anna and Luis Stonecipher. Election note proposes amending state constitution to require lawyers to meet qualification standards to practice law.
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