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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1920
Page
5
Corydon residents visit relatives in New Albany Williamsville and New York. Local businesses promote winter services painting paper hanging manure spreaders and rollers. A Zoar church revival, a grand jury member, and farm and family updates fill the page with community events and personal notices.
Community items include births and illnesses, Christmas travel plans, church services, a funeral, visitors from Nebraska and Louisville, records and piano sales, and school illnesses. Notable mentions: a 22-2 birth to Mr and Mrs Geo Benton Charles Victor. Dyer sick reports. Busald relatives home for Christmas. Perry child death. Stonecipher visiting from yymore Nebraska. Reas funeral. Victor records sales. Neely student home for holidays. preachers at Bethany church January 2. cotton seed meal orders. Dorothy Daley scarlet fever.
Community notices mention E Z Bake flour promotions and Christmas gift ideas for Victor records from Conrads. Local church services announce Fred Lottich preaching at St Peters Lutheran on Christmas morning. Town folks visit relatives from Greecastle Mauckport and DePauw University students are named.
Local items list holiday plans and notices: an oyster supper at New Amsterdam Methodist Sunday School on December 25. Christmas program and tree at United Brethren church on December 23. church services by Rev JG Moore in Corydon. families visiting relatives in Louisville over holidays. found items at local sites and a few rental and lost and found notices.
Miss Ravy Stevens of Indianapolis visits her parents Mr and Mrs P J Stevens. She has worked in government service for a year and has been stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor Louisville and in Chicago before arriving in Indianapolis.
Mrs Celestia Louder proprietor of the Louden Hotel in The Corydon Democrat building fell down a stairway last week after stepping on a coal that lay on a step. She escaped serious injury despite the slip and fall.
A Christmas entertainment will be held at Pennington Chapel on December 24 featuring songs recitations tableaux and pantomimes. Santa Claus will distribute presents and the public is invited. C. W. Reising Supt.
Floyd Reas of South Bend Lon and Clarence Reas of New Albany and Mrs. Walter Bliss with husband and three children of Argenta Illinois traveled to this county last week due to the illness and death of their father William M. Reas. Maggie Gelzenhapner of the Kintoer House Flats visited Friday to pay her Democrat subscription. Magpie, a respected Corydon woman, is noted alongside the Smith family members A E J Smith Florence Getzendanner and William H Getzendanner who have all passed away.
Elmer F Hudson and family purchased a house on West Poplar Street in Corydon. Hudson, a linotype operator at the Corydon Republican office, previousIy worked in several towns but chose Corydon again, calling it home.
Forest Melton of New York was a pleasant caller at this office in Corydon last Saturday. He spent the week with relatives in Louisville and in this county. He accompanied home from New York his aunt Mrs Catherine Birdwell who spent six months with him and his family. His little daughter Patricia accompanied him on his trip. He and the daughter returned to New York last Monday.
Mra Ferman Ashcraft and her son James Oscar of Cass with Mrs Fred Meier from near Sullivan visit Scott township friends. They are former residents, maiden Oscars Burd. They stay until after the burial of Benj Hannet killed in France in World War I. his remains are expected home this month. Mrs Ashcraft was married to Mr Hannet at his death and has since remarried.
Advertises a Ford top and a car bed for sale in Corydua Indiana. Reads as a brief classified item with minimal details and no identified contact information.
Mrs Louis Beal and her daughter Alma of New Albany visited her father Jacob Heuser in Ramsey last Monday.
Announcement from Prof and Mrs Er L Fisher reports the arrival of their twin daughters at their home on Tuesday December 21. Moore's Electric Barber Shop operates next door to the First National Bank Building. d22-38w . K Moore, Prop.
Arley Garey Jerry Dean and their families moved from Braison in Knox county to Duck Port last week. They are all former Heth township residents and relocated with their households amid unspecified reasons.
Late model good condition for sale. Price right. Contact W. FPF Winn Corgdon. dated 8 39.
Miss Dorothy Wook spends two weeks vacation with Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Cook. She is a Physical Instructor for the YWCA Beaumont Texas. Hewitt Cunningham visits Corydon en route to Laconia to spend Christmas with his mother Mrs. Carrie Cunningham. He attends the Presbyterian Seminary in Louisville. Miss Katherine Habermel and Miss Goldie Groft return home for three weeks of vacation from the Academy of the Immaculate Conception Ferdinand.
A white with black and tan fox hound missing since December 6. Reward or information sought. Contact Alva Jacobs in Mauckport or reach through the Mauckport exchange by phone Chan Jacobs. Ad 15 2w.
Mrs. Ira Scott of Bedford Kentucky is in Deaconess Hospital Louisville after a tumor removal operation on Saturday December 1. Her condition is reported as doing well and she hopes to return home by Christmas. Mrs. Scott, formerly Miss Ollie Reburn, is the daughter of Henry Seburn.
Hewitt Cunningham of Iacona in this county has been elected vice president of the Young People's Christian Endeavor Union in Louisville Areo. He also becomes president of the Student Volunteers in Louisville, an organization of students volunteering for foreign missionary work. Cunningham is preparing for the ministry.
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