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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1917
Page
7
Long list of local sales and notices from Corydon including closing out prices at Berman's Cut Price Store up to $1.98, a February 12 property sale in Posey township, a public auction near Bradford, and local visits. Mentions include shoes, razors, china ware, and a missing engine part rewarded at Arlie Hudson. Several social notes cover visits, births, travel, and a birthday request from Corydon, Indiana.
Community snippets record visits from Mrs. W G McKnight of Louisville to sister Mrs Patrick Griffin and others listed visiting relatives in Corydon. Also noted are sales at Miles five and ten cent Store, shoe clearances at Berman's, repairs, obituaries, illnesses, church revivals and local movements including residents moving back near Georgetown and Jeffersonville trips, plus a report of a rock pile for prisoner exercise and a request to recover stolen lap robes.
Various short notes from Corydon Indiana and surroundings include visitors, employment changes, and local happenings. Reports mention Mrs Orlan Conrad visiting relatives in Jeffersonville, Miss Angia Leslie in Corydon, and Miss Irene Chinn taking a job at First National Bank. The river at Mauckport rose eleven feet in two days. Notices of sales, farms, and business promotions appear along with personal health updates and community events at the Auditorium. Community leaders, church groups, and residents attend social and civic activities. The Oak Grove Sunday School elects officers for the coming year.
Mrs James W Thomas of Corydon returned from Louisville where she spent over a week at Deaconess Hospital for treatment. An operation was performed and she is improving with an expected full recovery. Doctors believed a breast development was not cancer. Mr Thomas accompanied her home last Friday.
Local notes report sales at Berman’s Cut-Price Store with 8c 16¢ and 89c items in a January clearing. Nearby, 1243 Market and Walnut streets host Miles 5 and 10e Store closing out household goods and more as Mr Fried prepares to move to Washington Indiana to care for his ill wife.
Thomas Saffer aged resident of the county died Sunday evening after long illness. He was eighty seven and survived by his son Edward who lived with him. Funeral service was held Monday and burial followed at Elizabeth cemetery at three o'clock in the afternoon. He resided about two miles southwest of Elizabeth.
Marriage license notice lists George W. Haub with Margaret Sendlewick and Adlai Mauck with Lutesma Smith. Also advertises Novelty Repair Shop offering all kinds of shoe repairing with best materials.
Ex Congressmen John C Cheney visited Corydon to discuss leasing Blue River land for a dammed lake to back water and power a large electric plant. An engineer assessed the site. construction near White Cloud seven miles west of Corydon could supply Jeffersonville and Louisville. Cheney, prominent Indiana attorney, aims to advance the project soon.
Louisv ille Markets notes Miss Retta Engleman traveled four weeks with friends in Indiana and Illinois. She met Rev Ida Hottell in Decatur and Rev L T Taylor in Argenta, where a large dinner honored the pastor. Engleman visited the Flock and Davis families in Parke and Clinton counties and toured Turkey Run Park recently acquired by the Indiana Centennial State Park Memorial Committee.
This calendar lists weekly church events from January with times for the Institute of Religion scripture exposition and class work, Ladies Aid Society, a weather permitting automobile trip to New Albany, Sunday School and worship services with hymn and sermon titles, Epworth League activities, and the Official Board meeting. It notes leadership and topics for January 28 and 29.
Finger B. F. Abbott of this place lost a finger from his left hand last week while working for Turnbili Manufacturing Company in Defiance Ohio. He has operated for the company since December and expects to return home in a few days. Umbrella repair and recovery services offered at Novelty Repair Shop by20-t.
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