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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1919
Page
7
Local notes include fair events in Marengo August 11 to 15 with train delays for passengers. visits by Ruth Denbo, Mildred Montgomery, and relatives in New Amsterdam. multiple Louisville and New Albany visitors. sales and ads for aluminum ware and autos. school and church notices. and court filings against Louisville and Southern Indiana Traction Company.
The article notes a large Moberly Sunday School celebration planned for next Saturday, August 2, with five or six schools expected to attend the program. It promises good music, speeches, and refreshments, and highlights local participants and organizers.
A column of short items from Corydon area society and business life. Funeral attendance for Dr. Z C Wolfe, visits by Mrs Etta Milan, job ad for a reliable cook at Hotel Evans Corydon. Also reports on Mr and Mrs Bussabarger health, Bruner family visit and a lawn mower accident, Mr Lee Carroll visiting Scott township, and Baldwin Piano Company executive W H Byrne’s town call and daughter’s music progress.
Miss Elia Katherine Prage and Miss Sophia Prage of Elizabeth visit with their parents before nurses work and at Montgomery Ward in Chicago. Motherly Sunday School set for Saturday August 2 with an invitation to all. A Rehoboth correspondent hints at a forthcoming wedding. Mrs. Seymour Walk and daughter Anna visit Georgetown. Ice cream social planned at Greenbriar school house for Greenbriar Sunday School August 2. Mrs. Arvil Fleck and relatives tour Jeffersonville and visit Mrs. Stevens at Southeastern Hospital. Hottie and Kemper families travel from New Albany to a Leavenworth picnic. Anna Smith of South Corydon faces jury in Corydon for assault on 12-year-old Flossie Curts. jury finds not guilty. J A Fowler of Central visits Corydon. a blacksmith, auto repairman, and Firestone tire agent new subscriber.
A centennial celebration will be held in New Amsterdam on Saturday August 2 under the auspices of the I O O F I O R M I O DL A M and the New Amsterdam Sunday Schools. The event marks 100 years of Oddfellowship with good speakers a brass band fish fry and on site refreshments.
Oscar Wright and William Chinn toured Indiana for five days in Wrights car visiting Bedford Bloomington Nashville Columbus Greensburg Osborn Madison Hanover Charlestown and nearby towns. They attended the Osgood Fair and saw a baseball game in Louisville. Floyd county resident William S. Hanger sent 1.50 to renew a Democrat subscription and is noted for his fine Corydon New Albany Pike home and eye trouble.
Julius Boster of Frenchtown renews his Democrat subscription. He, born in Alsace, reads and speaks French well and his grandfather fought at Waterloo. Miss Elsie Lottich and Miss Stella Caughlin depart for a weeklong Ken tucky river excursion, with Lottich a Keller Co. bookkeeper and Caughlin Corydon Democrat editor. Morgan township residents Frank Tigler family visit New Middletown by Ford, a 51 mile trip ending with praise for Mrs Bigler during her first auto ride.
Hurst Hardware Co offers Kelley Springfield auto tires guaranteed for 7500 miles and tubes with a two year guarantee. Call or examine these tires and tubes before buying.
P. C. Bullett and Ben D. Jay two popular fertilizer men from New Albany visited Corydon on business yesterday. Exhibition plans include a share of the 5000 dollars in cash premiums to prize winners. Effecto Auto Enamel advertised for car restorations in all colors at Hurst Hardware Co.
Mr and Mrs Michael Havswald thank neighbors for sympathy during illness and death of Claude. W H Rosenbarger of Pendleton visits son Ivan, plans to restart business with him in Corydon after selling Pendleton restaurant. O Donnel Party to perform July at Camp and August at the Auditorium. Ed G Keller and family depart for an East trip with stops in Cincinnati and New York. Trammel of Louisville joins in. Alva Seibert, Swift & Company employee, visits Corydon before heading home. Seibert served fourteen months in Naval Aviation at Great Lakes.
The Harrison County Fair launches this week featuring local exhibits, livestock displays, arts and crafts, and community contests. Officials schedule parades, food stalls, and family activities across the fairgrounds, inviting residents to enjoy a week of competitions and entertainment.
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