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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1913
Page
14
Circulation figure 5400 listed for Corydon Indiana edition with LEW M O BANNON identified as founder and proprietor. The notice notes post office entry at Corydon for second class mail and references a rate card for subscriptions.
Public notices for church events and entertainments with admission priced items are charged at special rates. Rates vary by length and duration with a base ten cents per inch and five cents per line for readers. A 24% per line surcharge applies to profit ads. Obituaries under twenty lines are free. longer entries incur per line charges. Send payment by money or stamps.
In Waveland the community shares visits and social news. Ed Puetneh took an aged dog to the New Albany market last week while Deb Lemimen spent Tuesday night with Mr and Mrs A Walsher. Several residents visited friends in Lanesville and Falls Cities.
The fragment reports a burial for a child of about twelve with family details and lists property for sale in FE county near Balwarissine. It mentions a cheese farm, 40 acres, a cottage, cellars, wells, and water, offered cheap if taken soon through the Democrat office and PlantAve. address.
Farm ad describing 251 acres east of Corydon near the Corydon and New Albany pike. Fifty one acres of fine bottom land, fifteen acres rolling for grass, rest timber. Two story dwelling and ample timber for building. Inquire at the office. Also local items note rain, illness, and community notices.
Miss Lula Hoehn has gone to Louisville while Miss Katie Heuser works there. Elizabeth Walk visits the Falls Cities. Philip Heuser took cattle to Louisville last Tuesday. Rev. Fred Raaf flew to Corydon. Lewis Reagan, 18, is sick. A carload of cattle and hogs was loaded at the Junction. Tile work limited by high water. Teachers held an institute. Basil Byrne unable to run Mauckport school due to high water. Mrs. Julia Newman of New Albany visiting family in New Albany tied to seven miles due to high water. Mail service hampered by high water and yard blockages. Auction notice for three-fourths mile east of Ins on Lee Smith farm Thursday Jan 30 1913 with Jersey cow eight shoats buggy gear potatoes corn and other goods. Cash for small sums, credit for larger. Benj Th Robbins and John Seipel, Auctioneers.
Four bills in the Indiana Legislature seek a constitutional convention. Senator Stotsenburg proposes voters decide in November 1914 whether to call a convention. Governor Alston favors the bill though it delays any convention until after the next legislative session. Other bills push for earlier calls.
A historical notice describes a sixty three acre farm in Franklin township with a five room house, a barn, wagon shed, smoke house and two outbuildings. Also mentions orchard with fruit trees and a pond. Contact details list Corydon area and Crandall Exchange.
Mrs Cook signs a statement praising Cardui for restoring her health after years of weakness. She claims her vitality returned once Cardui was taken and credits it with steady improvement and increased strength. Thousands of women reportedly benefited from Cardui.
Rainy spells continue as residents send belated greetings and attend to family matters. Oscar Brown’s visit to Neve Albany, Uncle Mawor Smith’s illness prayers, Joan Pirie’s Locust Porat stay, and extended kin in the area are noted amid a district court term beginning next Monday.
Public sale on Friday February 14 1913 near Hill Grove six miles south of Corydon offers five stock, farm implements and more. Items include two horses a brood mare a two year old filly a milking cow a heifer a brood sow buggy mower binder disc harrow land roller corn drill and harnesses. Most tools nearly new. Cash under 5. Credit nine months on 200 plus with promissory note. Crosby and Davis auctioneers.
An old Farmers Guide article explains that poorly installed lightning rods worsen risk by attracting bolts without protecting the structure. Properly installed rods from a reputable firm with permanent address can nearly insure against lightning damage, best installed by trained representatives rather than fly‑by-night operators.
W H Bullett & Sons present a two showing lecture entertainment on Friday January 13 at 2 and 7 50 pm in the International Harvester Sample room in Corydon Indiana. The program traces agricultural progress from wooden plows to modern self binders and gasoline traction engines over thousands of miles and seven decades. For further details call W H Bullett & Sons.
For sale is a saloon and dwelling with seven rooms, two large barns, several sheds, three wells, and six acres on Corydon pike about one and a half miles from city limits. Known as the Joseph Renn Place, an old established business including hotel and saloon, Free Press Saver, New Albany, Indiana. 116 B Springs St., Masonic Bldg. nlo tf
An advertisement offers free trial treatment CHRONICURE to conquer rheumatism and related ailments. It promises blood purification and relief for swollen joints and fatigue and urges readers to request full particulars by mail from Summers at 15h E Washington Avenue, Indianapolis.
Commissioner Co. W. Cook announces a partition sale in Harrison Circuit Court of Straus Crecelius et al ex parte. On February 15, 1917 at 10 o clock A.M. the highest bidder will buy 310 acres in Harrison county Indiana on public auction, payment plan four installments with 6 percent interest. The land includes southeast quarter and parts of the northeast and northwest quarters of section 9 township 5 south range 3 east with specific boundaries and exclusions, and a 5 acre parcel sold to Levi Cline. The sale is on the premises and the purchaser must issue notes with approved sureties.
On February 6 1918 at 2 pm sealed bids are invited by the Harrison County Indiana Board of Commissioners for the construction of two free gravel or macadamized roads in Posey Township. Plans and specifications are on file in the Auditor's office. J L Obannon Auditor Harrison County.
Standard Dress Goods Company advertises a complete spring collection of wool suitings wash fabrics fancy waistings silks and related items. The ad claims low prices direct from mills, weekly profits from 810 to 5040, free sample cases shipped prepaid with no money required and exclusive territory. Apply to Dept. 610 Binghamton N Y.
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