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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1906
Page
7
Local notices recount a busy spell of visits and events around Milltown including a planned big celebration on July 4. Names frequent in town life appear with trip reports, family births, weddings, and civic notes from Perry County to New Albany. Historical social details cluster around residents, closures, shows, and local business updates.
Local Corydon residents C. M. Krause Corydon J H Chap pell and Mae Harritt report preferring Dr Rea s Healing Powder and Gall Cure for barb wire cuts harness galls and proud flesh Sold by L A Riley Son and C R Watson. Carl Henry dies at County Poor Asylum at 65 after brief illness buried in Franklin township.
J. W. Owen of Kentucky, long resident of La Platte Missouri, walked from Corydon to Louisville arriving for Home Coming Week. He carried food and clothing in a wheel-barrow, and said he was not begging. He started the journey on May 7 and traveled the entire distance.
A detailed ledger of June term 1906 board allowances and expenses. Names include Geo. W. Dowdle, Benj. Pindall, Agnes C. Dowdle, Walter H. Fisher, Emmett Watson, Amzi Weaver, James A. Payton, Harry Fowler, Noah Haun, Thomas F. Kirkham, Pitman & Windell, and others. Amounts cover assessors, gravel roads, poor funds, jail and prison care, bonds, and county offices.
A letter from Chas Oswald, merchant of Rensselaersville New York, praises Bucklen's Arnica Salve for healing Seth Burch's ugly neck sore and claims it prevents blood poisoning. It cures cuts wounds burns and sores sold by A Riely and Son's drug store.
One new Keller special wagon 3 inch and one delivery wagon suitable for cream milk wagon or general use advertised by E. L. Pitman.
A petition will be presented to the Harrison County Board of Commissioners at the August 1966 term requesting a new public highway in Harrison County Indiana. The route begins where the New road crosses the section line near sections six and seven township two south range three east and runs east to intersect the Palmyra and Corydon road near the Frank Kahl residence. The proposed one and a half mile road would pass over lands owned by Andrew N Wolfe Henry L Wolfe Peter Temple Nicholas Miller Louis Temple Frank Wolfe Frank Temple Frank Kahl Paul Wenning and others.
Land prices in eastern Arkansas and northern Louisiana range from 7.50 to 315 per acre with clearing costs 5 to 10 per acre. Rich alluvial soil yields a bale of cotton worth 5 to 60, and alfalfa brings 10 to 16 per ton. The White River country offers low prices and stock and fruit raising potential. Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain lines offer reduced round trip fares on the first and third Tuesdays to western and southern points with 21 day return. Descriptive literature and maps are available from traveling agents in Louisville and St Louis.
Notice to Cort Martin in Harrison Circuit Court case No 3429 declares Cort Martin a non resident and required to appear at the September term in Corydon to answer or demur to Annie R Martin’s divorce complaint filed by attorney Major W Funk and deputy James A McRae with seal and date May 15, 105.
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