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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1920
Page
7
Readers urged to attend the Oak Grove lawn fete Saturday night June 19 featuring the Babes in the Woods tableau and the pantomime Noahs Ark. Also notes on local visits, improvements, sales, and upcoming events in the community.
Postmaster James H. Smith of Lanesville has been ill for four weeks. John Zabel, longtime Lanesville resident, has been ill for two weeks but is improving. Eureka Phone For Sale section lists ranges and stoves from Dowling McGrain Corydon Ind. Samson Tractors support coal oil or gasoline. Saffer and Kirkham advertise. Comment on Republican convention in Chicago. Mrs G C Doolittle to accompany a concert in June at the auditorium with Mrs Katharine Buchanan. Becker and Sons promote Emerson New Standard Mower and Osborne Self Dump hay rake. J H Mathes and granddaughters Oma and Fern Heinlein visit from Evansville for about two weeks. Mathes born and raised in the county, brother of Eli Mathes southwest of town.
Mr and Mrs Mattis Shaffer of Kingman County Kansas visit relatives in this county. They spent a few days with Mr and Mrs Clyde Lottick and Mrs Pearl Miller. Shaffer is Miller’s uncle and Shaffer's wife is Lottick’s aunt. They left the county for the west thirty five years ago.
The Samson three quarter ton truck is priced at 655 dollars and the one and a quarter ton model at 1095 dollars, presenting the most economical way to move farm products. Its construction features an extra large body for hauling stock, fruit, and more. See the Samson truck before you buy. Saffer & Kirkham, Dealers.
Farmers were never busier and can do a lot of work when conditions stay favorable, highlighting a busy period of agriculture and productive fieldwork.
Judge Ridley visits from England to hold court then spends Sunday at his home. Samuel Davidson builds a new barn near New Salisbury with carpenter Wilbur Martin. Knights of St John picnic at Hess Grove July 3 with dancing. Ice cream social at Glenwood church June 19 for church benefit. Prof E L Fisher writes from Urbana requesting the Democrat be mailed there. Ed Brown builds a larger porch on North Market Street. Carpenters Harry Croaby and Lawson Brengman. Christian Endeavor Union hosts ice cream social June 19 at Fountain church. C M Wheat near Corydon ill with heart trouble. Mrs George Miller of Corydon travels to St Louis. Mr and Mrs James Holliday of Laconia visit Louisville for health concerns.
Mr and Mrs Charles Keller hosted a Five Hundred party last Tuesday evening. Guests enjoyed a pleasant time playing cards and were served delicious refreshments.
Mrs. Mary A. Lawson and her children Ruth and Martha of Elizabeth visited C. M. Wheat near Corydon, who is seriously ill, last Monday. Gladys Graves left for Terre Haute to attend the summer term of the State Normal. Watson near town sold about twenty Jersey cattle to the Louisville Cement Stock Farm at Sellersburg. Wheat harvest nears with crop better than expected, though acreage is short.
See Snyder reports good music dancing day and night with refreshments and lunch at Heas Grove three miles south of Lanesville on Saturday July 8. Eureka Phone j 16-2. For sale a registered Duroc sow bred to a registered Duroc sire and will farrow in August. John L. Walter of Lanesville renewed his Democrat subscription Monday. Walter is a progressive Canesville citizen active in town initiatives.
Fourth shipment of Samson tractors arrives this spring. Place your order now to secure one for harvesting and fall plowing. Saffer and Kirkham.
Boone county resident Mr. Carpenter shipped a car load of milch cows purchased in Boone by Millard Eaton. Cows brought $50.00 to $90.00 per head. John Albin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Albin, left Corydon to visit relatives in Illinois and will stay through the crop season working on farms part time.
A report notes sudden warm conditions in June that help crop growth if accompanied by sufficient rainfall. The piece emphasizes weather timing affecting agricultural prospects and mentions moisture needs for favorable yields.
The Samson Model D Tractor iron horse will cultivate and harvest crops and plow fields. The ad claims extra profit from a well cultivated corn crop will pay for an Iron Horse, with Saffer & Kirkham as the sellers.
William Arnold and daughter Lucile visited for dental work in town. Arnold reports garage break ins and pilfering of auto tools amid rising thefts in Lanesville. Albert Hershman sent forty five acres of Pool wheat heads, six inches long, immature with four grain meshes. Ed G. Keller joins Corydon School Board succeeding George Applegate. Samson Tractor supports coal oil or gasoline with no readjustment. Ruth Keller returns from Pennsylvania after producing Wishing Ring for Rogers Producing Company. Model M Tractor boasts deep plowing and power for ensilage cutter and thresher. Saffer & Kirkham note Burng coal oil or gasoline. Sieg returns to town after injury, using crutch. Mr and Mrs David Stevens visit from Lakeland, Kentucky, after selling their farm near New Salisbury.
The Samson Iron Horse Model M is advertised to cultivate corn and pull multiple farming implements with three to four horses. It can pull two 14 inch plows, an 8 foot tandem disc, a large binder, and a grader or other heavy loads requiring six to ten horses. Belt power is provided for ensilage cutter, thresher, crusher, shredder, and other heavy belt work.
A June 10 note from C H Ginkins in Trinidad Colorado says he left Raton New Mexico the day before for home and will arrive in a few days. The card features a drawing of Ginkins riding a woolly mountain donkey roughly donkey sized, with ambiguity about whether he will ride or cage the animal on the return.
Miss Dora Rosenbarger led a Fountain Christian Endeavor group on a Marengo Cave outing last Saturday night. They traveled in Victor Rothrock’s big White Cloud truck with chaperoned members including Huth Conrad, Zelle Schaffer, Mildred Hughes, Hallie Hughes, Jewel Schaffer, Zettie Craig, Mary Rosenbarger, Belle Rosenbarger, Elsie Rosenbarger, Archie Hughes, Albert Hughes, Hobart Hughes, Frank Schaffer, William Sauerheber, Clyde Sauerheber, Ezra Engleman, Elmer Hothrock, and William Rosenbarger.
The column notes weddings, visits, and travels including L. Weber wedding in Jeffersonville, Hal Stepro and Marcella Watson marriage in Heth township, Miss Alice Williams visiting Jeffersontown, and Mildred Montgomery heading to Terre Haute for summer school. Also mentions district Methodist Conference at Campbellsville, Getzendanner health, properties for sale and rent, and local contracting for Jackson township high school.
Robert P. OBannon a Purdue University student is spending a few days with his parents Mr and Mrs Lew M OBannon at this place The term at Purdue closed last week.
Leavenworth High School principal Carl Brown left Saturday with his sister Ruth to enroll for the summer term at the State Normal in Terre Haute.
Miss Tuottie Kost of the State School at Tt Wayne and her sister Mrs William Knight of Indianapolis returned last Monday after visiting their father George Kost and family in Webster township.
County Commissioner John L. Wendell of Washington township brought a fine lot of cherries to the Corydon market last Tuesday. Buyers paid 60 cents a gallon, finding them welcome purchases.
C W Lambert of Louisville with Peter and Burghand from Monument Cut Stone and Building Material was in town last week taking orders for monuments. During the trip he erected a family monument for Eliphalet Hickman.
Deering Sisal Twine arrives at W H Bullett & Sons. The Samson Tractor powers sturdy implements. Samson plow weighs 900 pounds useful in rough ground. Samson Model M Tractor weighs 2350 pounds. Taking orders for summer and fall delivery. Baffer Kirkham.
John E. Hevser of Depauw lists 166 trees for sale sized 12 inches and larger. Species include White Oak and Red Oak.
Harvey Cline returns from a Florida trip and reports selling his forty acre farm, twenty acres in oranges, for twelve thousand dollars. He has spent several winters in Florida and speaks knowledgeably about Southern land and crops.
Albert Stover sold a 1700 pound Aberdeen Angus bull for $153 at Louisville market. Wat Applegate delivered the animal by truck for the butcher shop. Stover maintains a fine herd of Aberdeen Angus cattle.
Mr. George K. Gwartney was in Cincinnati on legal business last week. He visited Mr. Joseph Long, a former local resident who now works for the street railway company. They toured the city including the Zoo and other sights, with Gwartney praising Cincinnati as one of the finest cities in the country.
Ms Sidney Morton of Madison Indiana travels through Corydon on Monday to Scott township to see her seriously ill mother Mrs Catherine Swan. Morton and her husband formerly lived in Corydon where he ran a repair shop. He now works in Texas for the International Bible Students Association devoting full time to this work after leaving Corydon two years ago.
Myo aged Mere. Cl PB Trotter leaves Saturday for a month visiting daughter Mrs. Lelahime in St. Paul Minnesota then Seattle and Portland Oregon for Shriners meetings. They will tour the coast visiting son John Trotter in Parker Oregon before returning home.
The Samson Tractor is priced higher than smaller cheap tractors by 500 to 1000 dollars yet promises Samson performance and construction. It features a hollow crankshaft force fed oiling system water circulation waller bearings mechanical governor belt pulley platform fenders and weighs 2350 lbs. Satfer and Kirkham.
The Board of Review continues its session re-adding assessments made by Township Assessors and correcting errors. County Assessor Winirett Bean Blossom presides, with Joseph Uhl and Samuel N. Voyles as appointed aides. Any resident unhappy with their personal property assessment may request a hearing at the current session.
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