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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1923
Page
4
Readable items include farm ads from Bullett & Sons and furniture requests, births, porch building updates, Chautauqua season ticket pricing, and visits among Corydon residents. Social notes mention Mona Purner visiting New Albany, Mary Frances Shaffer birth, and local improvements on North Mulberry Street.
Local notice lists Plymouth Binder Twine sale by VO T. Bullet & Sons at 1-13-2-w. Mentions Michael GG Hannel living near Princeton and a farm stay in Scatt township. Includes travel plans of Ralph E Harris of Somis California and relatives in Indiana. Also notes old tire vulcanizing service by G EF Bradley and a Children’s Day program in Moberly with a $4.60 offering and acknowledgments to planning committee.
Tire and tube offered at reduced price while current stock lasts by W. H. Bulleit and Sons. Demand follows limited quantities as of January 13.
Local items note Chautauqua season tickets will be delivered soon after pledges. Advertisement promotes celery plants, mower and rake, and fourteen Chautauqua numbers priced from 50 cents to a dollar. Community notices mention visits, funerals, and family news across Corydon and nearby towns.
Bulletin and Sons reports receiving a letter from John M. Wiseman requesting no charge on his Democrat subscription and asking for his address change from Littles to Oakland City. Wiseman writes fond memories of home and asks for three cards with special tire prices advertised by the store.
The VIome Missionary Society of Corydon Methodist Church met Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Kintner, southeast of town, with about seventy attendees. Brick ice cream and cake were served as refreshments in a generous hospitality-filled gathering.
Mrs Celestia Louden and grandson Erman Crayden traveled from Chicago to spend time with her daughter Mrs Joe McClaran and other relatives. She has lived with daughter Mrs Mattie Bray in Chicago for twenty months and recently underwent surgery for a facial abscess. Mrs Louden formerly ran a Corydon hotel and has many friends there.
Amos Lemimon bought a Jersey heifer at a Jersey cattle sale in Elizabethtown. Collier and wife delivered the calf by express, then drove 100 miles round trip to check the animal’s condition, surprising Lemmon two days later at his premises.
Local residents and visitors listed include Mr and Mrs Chas Gleitz and family visiting Mrs Carrie Mugler of Crandall. Miss Jean Kirkham traveling to Tranover College. Isaace Beanblossom from New Albany visiting neighbors. Mrs Amy Clark Gail Mann and Artie McRae attending the funeral of Mrs Sabina J Davis. Verne Lettick returning to Hanover for summer term. Karl Rothrock spending summer with Claude A Davis. others visiting relatives in Corydon and district. For sale items include a four year old caster and single comb White Leghorn cockerels. Court and legal notes mention Corydon attorneys Sam P Vogt C L O B Hays Clyde Ro Lettick and RR S Kirkham.
In Washington township David Scull reports a three week old calf with no eyeballs though eye sockets appear normal. The calf follows its mother in the pasture and appears to move without difficulty despite blindness.
An ice cream social is planned at Central Christian Church in Central on Saturday night. Sermons are scheduled for Sunday morning and evening, July 1. You are invited to attend these services by W G Conner.
Mrs Lydia Kintner formerly of this county will depart July 8 with a Cincinnati family for a trip to New York City en route to their Maine summer home where she will remain until Fall.
Mr and Mrs Melvin Davis and two children Melving and Beryl May of Brooklyan Iowa visit relatives. Davis plans to attend Columbia University New York this summer after years in Nebraska where he served as superintendent of Buffalo schools. Luther Ross a farmer in Parrison County is reported in poor health after leading a local movement work in New Albany and now struggles to sit unaided.
Mr and Mrs C27 Gleitz with children hosted a day of visiting relatives from Flatwoods Me and Lanesville at a gathering near Crandall. Evelyn and Cyrl, Rob Richert and family, Witt Gearce and Charles shared a Sunday meal and enjoyed a pleasant afternoon under a tree by the spring.
Boo and J I Crawford of New Albans with their wives traveled Friday to pay respects to Mel Wolfe who died Thursday. The Crawford brothers and Mr Wolfe were longtime friends who could not attend the funeral on Thursday and came down a day early.
Dr Geo DeTar Mrs Dear and their daughter Mary Belle with Dr Meltons kin from Winslow Pike county attended the funeral of Dr Frank M. Melton at Titon Chapel Boone township last Thursday. They paid a call Friday morning on their way home and planned to dine Friday noon with Mr and Mrs Edward Hild at Leavenworth. Mrs Geo B DeTar and Dr Melton were first cousins.
Dunree sow and eight pigs offered for sale by David Sculi R R 2 Corydon Indiana Eureka Phone June 202 w Rev Terman S Albin of Lexington Tenn spent time in the county returning from Cincinnati where he attended a church conference He preached at Zoar church noting his power as a pulpit speaker Albin son of the late John Albin was raised in the county and is known for earnest church work.
Local notices report sales contact for Burpee Home Can Sealers. Miss Mollie Keller departs for six weeks at the Conservatory of Music. Several local residents and visitors are named with travel, visits, and engagements in New Albany Corydon and Valley City.
In Frenchtown a stop to chat with vhddier Henriott highlights his skill as a top county mechanic and blacksmith. In Mooresville, Maurice N. O Bannon and family visit Ford O Bannon and Mrs Russell. O Bannon plans a New York summer at Columbia University after serving as Mooresville superintendent for two years. The Mooresville School district serves 600 pupils and received a donated farm sold for 27 500 to fund a new building.
W H BULLEIT & SONS advertise hay carriers suitable for steel or wood trucks at junction 20-2 west.
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