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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1905
Page
7
The Crandall era notes butter priced at 30 cents a pound at the creamery with promotions from Keller’s store. It also highlights a farmers institute at Crandall and DePauw, lectures by Dr. Powell, and community notices including visitors, weddings, and obituaries.
Hon R J Tracewell flew in to witness the gubernatorial inauguration and resigning Senator Fairbanks. Miss Emma Bell sixteen died by morphine overdose at New Albany after family dispute with parents over returning home. Presbyterian church members urged to attend Wednesday prayer meeting where G W Applegate will propose building a new church with no subscription asked.
Classified notice offering a loan opportunity in Corydon Indiana. Mentions sender Charles Walter with RB and route three. No contact details beyond location.
Flatwoods reports snow providing good wheat cover. Mrs. Louisa Zenor suffers a paralytic stroke with Dr. Daniels as attending physician. Mr. Arthur Sharf, a Scipio Arkansis native formerly of New Middletown, visits locally. Edgar Nance locates one of two missing pigs. John Richert plans to accompany grandson Arthur Scharf to Arkansas. Fred Schneider eyeing a new wood house on his South Corydon lot. Will Gleitz buys 10 acres of timber from C J Riehert for 600 dollars.
A-styled report notes Gree A Weller family holidays near New Middletown and Levy Snyder hosts. John Witterman’s son battles scarlet fever. D W Keller hosted a shooting match drawing many participants. Local youths sold hogs and rabbits were hunted during visits by Gilmore Bochart and others.
Frenchtown reports good town health with Dolph Tracin and Mrs. Ligzie Martin ill. New road supervisor candidates emerge as births, barn expansion, and school progress appear. A pre-supper at No 2 school is planned for Friday Jan 13 and Julius Vaughn seeks a lost buggy shaft. Burglary hits four Corydon area businesses. Senator Hoar pays tribute to Senator Davis with a reflective epigram.
Maud Byrn has a boy and George Haub a girl. Mrs. Leatherman of Mott ill with pneumonia. Kate Adams trip to New Albany. Warren Byrn glad for a boy. George Binger of Sellarsburg visited relatives. The Adams and Fannie visited Milltown. Cort McCoy of Hell town visited his father. J F M Wolfe left for Chrisney to visit a brother. Lannie Davis and Jessie Sigler to New Albany. Catherine Heuser ill with stomach trouble. Lyda Hubbard returned from New Albany. Will Abbey to Mason Michigan to aid his sick mother. Mrs Ward Guernsey of Jeffersonville visited and returned home. Joseph Hoehn Jr improving from scarlet fever. Will Crosby and family returned from Georgetown. Chorge BR Hoehn home after two weeks with Pred Bauer in Trawesville. Eliett of Sellardine visiting daughters Mrs Winn and Mrs Abbot returned home. Mr Bowers, who sold his drvelline to Salida, had a dwelling fire near Salisbury. house damaged but furniture saved.
Titus reads the Democrat as Mrs. Jessie Love visits James Trotter, and Rev Toombs to preach at Concord next Sunday. Edith Hall visits A A Sherrill. Aunt Barbara Frank travels to Mauckport on business. Ed Windell trips to Corydon for telephone work. Ollie Robins and Sherman Faith plan a southern departure. River traffic remains steady. Ivan Mowry photographs local youths. School progress with Frank Funkhouser teaching. Beanblossom family visits TL Beanblosson. Myrtle and George Simler attend the Mauckport Teachers Institute. Shuey Beanblossom returns to Louisville Railway job after visiting home.
German gleanings report a failed bid to raise Berlin structures beyond 22 meters. Grunewald faces a rat infestation with a 10 pfennig bounty for rat tails. A Gernot journal mocks postal card city maps. A private subjected to harsh punishment over staying awake stories.
The bureau of plant industry notes many native American grasses adapt to arid western plains with under 15 inches annual rainfall. Bermuda grass grows perennial in warm climates and persists in the upper cotton belt. frost kills blades but underground parts survive severe freezes.
The issue reports births weddings and deaths in Lanesville and nearby. A girl born to Dereiaie and Ringle. Miss Josephine Hottell wed Allen Spain of Poplar Bluff Missouri. Funeral details for Elizabeth Zabel of the Eu Lutheran church with burial at the Lutheran cemetery. Public sales by Commissioner John Geis and estate auctions list property transfers and a local roof fire extinguished by bucket brigade.
Philip B Cooper died suddenly at his Posey township home last Friday night. The inquest by the coroner found heart failure as the cause. He was 77, survived by wife and several children, and known as a leading local farmer and real estate appraiser for Harrison County Fire Insurance. Also includes advertisements for catarrh remedies and local notices of dissolution of partnership and trusteeships.
Terre Haute January 9 details the largest coal mining property deal in Indiana. The Bering Coal company of Chicago, capitalized at 5 million dollars, has acquired twelve plus mines along the C B and E and B and T H railways with Frisco Railway backing.output expected above 7 million tons annually. The total price is not disclosed.
A bank run in North Liberty Indiana forces Citizens Bank to shut its doors. Owner James W Brooks tried to realize on securities but failed. The private bank had 10000 capital and large depositors. Local banks refused North Liberty paper amid long standing trouble.
On the Melle farm three miles east of Richmond a tree fell while being cut down killing forty year old Melle and seriously injuring his brother Frank Melle. The brothers were at the tree base and could not escape before the collapse.
Ray Koontz was accidentally shot and killed near Plymouth Indiana. He was with his brother in law Philip Felton when Felton's gun discharged through a thicket striking Koontz in the back and severing the spine.
In Indianapolis on January 6 the Indiana Swine Breeders' association crowded the statehouse beyond capacity, leading to the use of a larger hall. The group, described as one of the strongest livestock associations in the state, has maintained its influence for many years.
Mrs. William Patterson of Akron slowly convalesces after the accidental drowning of her two sons in Townlake. The bodies were recovered and buried in the same coffin, amid family and community mourning.
Daniel Zimmerman assistant engineer at the Kankakee pumping station died when his clothing caught in machinery and he was drawn into the wheels of the pump. The accident occurred as he was oiling the machinery leaving the plant in Laporte Indiana on January 6.
In Greensburg Indiana on January 5 Mrs Eliss abeth Draper of Moores Hill committed suicide at her brother T M Clarks home by hanging from a door transom with a towel. In Dillsboro Indiana on January 7 the Ripley county council approved seven thousand seven hundred fifty dollars to buy the Osgood and Napoleon turnpike, a sum $1200 below appraised value, leaving no toll pikes in the county. The excerpt ends with a local ad noting the best rubbers at Bellers.
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