25 Feb 1878
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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1878
Page
1
The notice explains that no ad under a square length is accepted and every local notice costs 10 cents per insertion. Marriages and deaths appear as news while obituaries and tributes are treated as news items. Festivals political meetings concerts and other ads are also described as ad notices. Transient advertising must be prepaid.
The park continues to drop in value while the iron bridge over Indian creek is finished. Fox drives have mostly failed this year. Amos Johnson of Posey township visited Corydon, mixing with locals. Only one county commissioner will be elected this year from the lower district. A Kentucky man sports a blue ribbon, and a joke about a Murphya judge circulates. Alexander Floyd of Morgan township hints at sheriff candidacy. Stevens questions emancipation’s blessing for the negro. A correspondent mentions the Old Capital’s canvas, not our work. Webster’s punch recipe and a note on Russian bars through history are noted.
An execution in the clerk’s office of Harrison Circuit Court levies on property tied to judgment in which George W Applegate is plaintiff and Charles L Langdon William Wolfe and William Baxley are defendants. Public sale to be held as directed by law.
Last week named candidates include Zollman for Auditor Jobe V McRae and Philip Heckelman for Webster township trustee with no local notice. Plus lively notes from King's Cave reports, weather, logging activity, valentines, and local political talk ahead of a convention.
Weather and travel hardships limit correspondence as Rev Watson and his wife continue a protracted meeting at the nearby M E church begun last Sunday week. If as successful as at Moore's school five miles away, expect more church additions though townsfolk must adapt to a female preacher.
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