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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1903
Page
3
The advertisement touts Kirschbaum garments for their perfect fit, claiming others lack the same goods. It highlights coats with haircloth fronts and fabrics like Cheviot Frieze kersey Melton and Vienna in belt coats with overplaids checks and mixtures. The store invites customers to view lines with no obligation to buy.
Capt M. Bartley and Levi Hickman form a partnership handling noted W. P. Cole buggies. Buggies are described as excellent and priced extremely low. They invite customers to view stock on South Market Street near Poplar. Apr tf
Mrs. Julia Henriott is improved. Miss Mamie Schmitt visits nearby. Mrs. Mary Bary visits her mother on Thanksgiving. Claud Vausha of New Albany visits family. Dolf Pate and wife visit Joseph Shotter of Crawford county. A pie supper hosted by Frank Briscoe on Wednesday night was successful.
A northern patent medicine claim describes a one minute cough cure that treats coughs croup and la grippe by acting at the source of trouble without stomach passage. Dr Armstrong of Delia Texas endorses it as daily prescription and asserts no better cough remedy exists. Sold by all druggists.
Taylor township in the Ohio River corner of Harrison County begins the first free rural mail delivery. The 21 mile route from Evans Landing to Rosewood Glenwood Underhill Buena Vista Willow Spring returns daily at 10 am. Carrier Morton Davis with substitute Courtney Fox. postmistress Miss Carrie Kelley at Evans Landing.
Lorena Emily and Charles Hauswald are in poor health. Joseph Brandenburg suffers rheumatism. Martin Wheat sold his farm to Oscar Brown for $1600. Miss Mary Messler and Mrs. Rebecca Quebbeman visited friends in New Albany. Mrs. John Walter ill with head tumor. Mrs. Lizzie Hands of Louisville visited cousin Mrs. Agnes Brown. Ward Brown, in New Albany, visits his mother.
Mt. Prospect notes Carrye Hendricks and Vernya Brinley among readers and visitors. Ila Brinley is ill. Alex Mason visited Fred Hedden. Rowena Carl stayed with Uncle Fred Carl. Maybel McCauley spent time with Vernya Brinley. Daisy Colvin teaches at Bear Wollow school as Joseph Brinley’s house nears completion. Cooper and McKinney handle work. Millie Noyes and Laura Hedden visited Carrye Hendricks. Taylor township teachers institute at Bear Wollow school house on December 5 with a shadow supper.
The Heidelberg revival ended Sunday morning with eleven converts joining the church. Rev. P. O. Fulgham, the pastor, guided efforts to raise church standards and improve communal righteousness.
Alfred J. Miller aged about forty five died Friday morning from heart trouble. He was a painter who had recently moved here from Louisville. He leaves a wife and several children. The funeral was Sunday and he was laid to rest at Zoar.
Local ad highlights top meat cutters lard presses and butcher knives from leading brands offered by J. J. Bullett and Son's. Includes promotions for kitchen tools and equipment for meat processing.
John L. Kessinger leads the completion of a half mile gap in the river gravel road from New Albany to Posey township line and Elizabeth pike to Bridgeport. Posey township taxpayers donate money and labor with township funds backing ten inches of new road bed, improving winter travel on a heavily used route. Floyd county provides no help.
Elizabeth and Mrs. George Kron are seriously ill. Mrs. Bert Hamilton visits in Louisville. Grandmother Moore visits her son Dr. Moore. Elmer McKinney left for Illinois. John Treece and Cate Stewart visit Cecil Flanagan. Prof. Binkley visited near Corydon. Effie Knight visits Lillian Morton. James and Mrs. Tuell return from Louisville. Fdna Treece visits Carrie Flanagan. Jeff Stuart sold property and moved to New Albany. Lassie Kessinger returns from New Albany visit. Louis Kessinger welcomes a baby girl. James Stewart family from New Albany spend Thanksgiving here. John W. Stuart rents sawmill near Buena Vista. Mrs. Isaac Hilderbrand called to bedside of daughter Guy Evans. Rev. Murr and family at St Johns for protracted meeting. Ladies of MFE Church host Thanksgiving dinner netting 45 for church repairs. Martin Kingery badly burned during blasting but expected to recover.
The Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church on the Mauckport charge will be dedicated Sunday December 10 1903. Rev L S Knotts of Rising Sun will deliver the dedicatory sermon and several former pastors of the charge will attend.
Savines & Loan Association advertises money to loan on easy mortgage terms. Feb printing mentions quick approval and friendly rates for home financing.
Eaton and Wiseman, Ramsey Indiana, advertise as live stock dealers paying the highest market price for all kinds of stock. Address them in Ramsey for sale inquiries. Also note a medicinal ad for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a druggist refund and W Grove signature on each box.
Harrison County Teachers Association held a two day session at Corydon Auditorium with about 140 attendees. Superintendent Pleasant Jenkins presided and Hugh Rhodes was secretary as the group charted officers and a program for the next year after a near split vote on continuing the winter meetings.
George Rochner of Bradford and Mamie Miller of Louisville were quietly married at St Bonifice Church in Louisville last week. They left for Bradford with bridesmaid Rose E. Kraher and groomsman Joseph Ott of New Albany, and were guests of Mr and Mrs Fimner Mosier. Bradford youths later sang them a serenade.
A Harrison County native after sixty years as a Republican declares a shift to the Democratic party after moving west. He cites farmer and laborer suffering under money powers, notes reading The Democrat for years, and signs his name as a loyal correspondent from Town and Colorado.
Friends and relatives gathered Saturday near noon at James McIra yire’s home to surprise him on his seventy ninth birthday. Attendees included Mrs. Mary McRae Charles Carter and family Huston McRae Ira McRae of Louisville George and Miss Jane Bentley of Elbert and others.
Clara Hause aged 28 daughter of John Hause of Louisville formerly of Tacoma died November 25. Her remains were brought to the county and interred in King burying ground last Friday. She had lifelong epilepsy and leaves a father mother and three brothers.
In Yoakum Texas the head of a large dry goods firm Mr J M Haller travels east by palace car with a friend. A sample promise suggests taking Dé Witt’s Little Early Risers pills to beat the morning headache and logy feeling. Sold by all druggists.
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