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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1910
Page
7
A local roundup records visits by Misses Markel Everhart and Farish, Prof Coffman and Venner, and families from New Albany, Jeffersonville, Louisville, and beyond. It notes July 14 Plummers Chapel and Pfrimmer's Chapel celebrations, baptisms, Sunday schools, farm yields, and a dozen small community happenings.
Mr and Mrs Hayes Frakes visit with Samuel Windell as Mr Frakes renews The Democrat subscription. Stella Watson and John Walter Windell wed in the clerk's office. Bon voyage for a soldiers monument plan by Mr Mader gains support. Attendees travel from Louisville Jeffersonville Orleans and Orange counties. Chicago trip includes drives with W H Keller and links to Bobbitts and Rush Medical College.
The last payment of the subscription to the library will be due July 15 and all subscribers should call and pay to Miss Rose Keller, Treasurer, at the First National Bank. Subscribers are urged to complete payment by July 6.
We thank neighbors and friends for sympathy and help during our son's illness and death and for harvesting our wheat while we were at the hospital. L. A. Rogge and Family.
Jack Johnson defeats Jim Jeffries in Reno Nevada on July Fourth in the most noted boxing match in U S history lasting fifty nine minutes. Jeffries lasts to the fifteenth round before losing as Johnson’s blows prevail. About twenty thousand spectators attend with five hundred women present. The piece notes Nevada bans on such brutal contests, repealed and not in force after September 30.
A heavy shower last Monday disrupted the county Fourth of July celebrations. Crowds gathered at Seven Springs Lanesville and Palmyra saw programs cut short as rain forced shelter and halted picnics and sport. In Corydon a planned double header between Corydon and Howard Park was canceled at the Fair Grounds.
The Star Theater run by Mr. and Mrs. Bullington changes the schedule to start about 7 30 and end around 10 30 P M. Visitors may arrive at any time and watch the full program as it is repeated. Admission is five cents.
The county issues marriage licenses for Alwin J. Harris and Frances Cecil Byerly, Griff W. Brown and Lois Shuck, John Walter Windell and Stella Maud Watson, and Leo Henn Kannapel and Jennyg In Backherms.
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