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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1905
Page
8
A reflective reminiscence recalls childhood days along the river under willows, the vanished youth who gathered there, and the survivor's sense of loss. The author muses on fate, hidden purposes, and the unknown future as time passes since February 24, 1905 in CrandtaH Indiana.
J H Watson continues to improve and W S Watson plans a Mauckport move. Heth township schools near closing. Wood Yeager improves after illness. Rev Toombs leads a well attended meeting at Concord. Nev Tradcliffe to host a series of meetings at Highlang next Sunday. Cedar Wood visitors to H B Blake last Sunday. Bertha Beanblossom visiting grandfather H H Neely in New Albany. Lud Beanblossom and wife in Boone township last weekend. Lillie Glake and Emmett Beanblossom in New Amsterdam on business. Residents attend telephone meeting at Laconia. Mrs Rose Yeager returns home from Corydon after visiting sister. Isaac Beanblossom moves Mauckport to work at Humphry’s saw mill. Mrs Mattie Lemmon returns to Corydon after visiting brother B W Reagan and family.
Dr H K Dean on the sick list this week. Levi Pitman started for Minneola Kansas yesterday. The Democrat visits the old town. Rev J H Toombs holds meetings at Concord. Wm Longbottom returns from Pike County. Bella Frakes visits Nora Tindall at Central. Grand jury calls many locals. James Roby moves to Central to run W A Smith's store. March 3 sheep deaths wipe out Charles Smith flock. Central public school closes March 15. teachers W Hardin and Grover Love. W A Smith moves to Lee Pitman farm to supervise. Cortez J Watson and Chas Robbins head to Cincinnati for street car work. Williard Flanagan on furlough from Regulars. Local boys consider summer work in Illinois. The writer wishes them success.
Mr Hill lectures on One Sided People at the Christian church on March 9. The talk promises humor and common sense and begins at 8 o'clock in the evening.
Petition filings in the Auditor’s office request construction of four gravel pikes in Harrison township. The routes include Corydon Salem Milltown to Jackson township line. Corydon along Corydon Laconia road to Harrison Webster line. Corydon Mauckport Pike to Corydon New Amsterdam road. and Corydon White Cloud from Corydon west line to Corydon White Cloud road, with a fifth pike proposal along Corydon Milltown to Corydon Salem.
Morris Fleshman has built a machine shop with a gasoline engine, emery wheel and circular saws to work on wood and farm equipment. Alva Wiseman is preparing for a building boom, while C. W. Thomas hosts guests Treasurer O’Connor and Capt. I. M. Bartley. Ernest Simcoke, Jason Kintner and Gad Briles cut 200 cords of wood for C. W. Thomas as George Kintner recovers from the grip health setback.
Heth township freeholders petition the Commissioners to pike a two mile link from Central at the Heth pike to the Washington pike line. Washington residents have raised about six hundred dollars to aid the project, funding roughly a quarter of the road. The board may order the work without a survey or election, with April 3 set for action by the petitioners.
Sugar Tree Grove reports Mrs. James Long is quite ill. Mrs. Mary Mauck lists two cows for sale. Matt Wolfe of Scott township moved to Knox county and Alf Mauck enjoys twin girls. C. C. Hubbard has recovered enough to be out after three months sick. Mrs. Jacob Weis and Miss Anna Windell visited Sam Windell Sr. and family on Saturday. John Cunningham sold Wade Smith a farm near Briles' schoolhouse once owned by Ed Baxley. Chas. Rhodes will return to Illinois this week for a farm position after winter at home.
Mrs. Riddle 66 lifelong wife of Pete Riddle near New Middletown died Monday night from grip. She leaves husband and three children John Riddle Mary Deatrick and Kate Bauer. Funeral arrangements to be held soon with interment at Seigwald cemetery. Rev. H Randall Lockabill returned from Crawfordsville after evangelistic meetings at the Christian church. Local ads note stock of work harness stoves and ranges available in Corydon.
St Petersburg reports fuse of battle near Mukden as General Kuropatkin fights to hold fortifications. Russians claim success repelling a Japanese wave while experts warn Japan risks overextension and a potential counter stroke if Kuropatkin exploits a weak link.
From Mukden comes word of a general battle along a 100 mile front. Kuropatkin counterattacks on the Japanese left under Kuroki, with Kaulbars making a local gain. He also seizes a Shakhe river railroad bridge and halts the Japanese center, suggesting a more hopeful turn despite Da Pass withdrawal.
Tokio reports Field Marshal Oyama pressing along both flanks of the Russian army with a wide front from the Shakhe river base to east of Fushun and west of Mukden. General Kuropatkin battles to halt encroachments as Japanese gains widen west of the railway and spoil piles grow. Heavy fighting and losses are noted with further clashes anticipated.
Indianapolis Wheat and corn prices mixed with firm cattle and hog quotes. Cincinnati and Chicago show stronger wheat and higher hogs, while New York and East Buffalo list steady to active sheep and lamb markets with varied livestock levels.
Indianapolis March 6 The Indiana house suspended rules and passed Murray’s resolution to appoint by the governor a commission to study the needs of a treatment institution for consumptives. Dr J N Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, backs investigation first and is expected to join the commission, with two years to assist its work. He is a leading authority on tuberculosis in Indiana.
Hartford City Indiana March 2 The Manhattan Oil company will again pay Indiana oil and enter the Delaware county field with a pipeline to Welker Ohio. Pump stations will be built at Parker Selma and Albany plus one in county. Refinery capacity at Welker is 30000 barrels daily. The move promises lively spring competition as the field had been dominated by Standard Oil after absorbing Manhattan and Cudahy.
Goshen Indiana March 3 Walter Brown known as the Elkhart bank wrecker refuses to answer cross examination questions during deposition at Fort Leavenworth. He states he will answer when out of prison and displays an ugly mood toward opposing counsel amid receivership suits.
Emerson Jennings lies dying in Carmel from four bullet wounds after Samuel Smith a farmer near Carmel shot him on the street with a Winchester in a dispute over alleged attentions to Smiths wife Mrs Smith aged about twenty seven who has been married to Smith for five years Jennings fired back with a revolver but it proved ineffectual.
Elkhart Ind March 2 Nathaniel Vannemee a well known and wealthy farmer aged sixty one killed himself by shooting over the recent death of his wife His father committed suicide about forty years ago and his mother was later an inmate of a hospital for the insane.
Veedersburg Indiana March 3 Harry Grady a young farmer south of the city killed himself by cutting his throat with a razor. It is thought his act arose from dissatisfaction with farm life and ill health.
Mrs Cathrine White aged sixty nine died by drowning in a well at the home of William Banther near Carlisle Indiana after worrying she would be sent to an insane hospital.
Leo Warren, colored, escaped from the Indiana reformatory in a boxcar moved to the Louisville side. Warren was convicted of burglary in Daviess county on January 19, 1904. Bertha Grimm, seventeen, daughter of Jacob H. Grimm, attempted suicide with carbolic acid in Wabash, Indiana, on March 3.
President Roosevelt took the oath of office before a vast crowd on the East Front of the Capitol. Chief Justice Fuller administered the oath in a solemn ceremony. the crowd filled avenues and steps from the Capitol to the Library of Congress.
In Washington on March 4 Charles Warren Fairbanks was inducted as vice president before a crowded senate chamber. The ceremony, brief and solemn, included the oath administered by Senator Frye and an adjournment preceding the president's inauguration.
Washington March 4 Congress ends a streamlined closing day with little remaining business and no major supply measures in dispute. The chamber wrapped up late and left only routine actions to finish the session.
Chicago March 4 The Western grain rate war was settled today by an agreement to restore normal tariffs April 1.
A general strike was proclaimed at sectional meetings of workmen in St. Petersburg on March 4. Workers across sectors voiced coordinated action and plans to halt work in solidarity with broader labor demands.
A petition signed by over fifty free holders of Heth Township seeks gravel or macadam paving on a two and a half mile section. The hearing is set for Monday April 3 1905 before the Board of Commissioners in Corydon Indiana. Witness Frank E Watson Auditor. mé-3w 3
Sherman H. Engleman as administrator with the will annexed of John B. Marchery's estate will sell at public auction on the premises in Spencer township. The notice indicates a sale of real property under probate administration.
An administrator offers for sale the deceased’s personal property including town, two horses, one cow, one wagon, a binder, a wheat drill, farming implements, household goods, and 4 of 23 acres growing wheat plus other items. Cash under five dollars. balances over five dollars on nine month credit with promissory notes and six percent interest after maturity. Sale starts 10 a.m. March 7, 1905. John O. Anderson, Admr.
The undersigned is appointed administrator of the estate of John Anderson of Harrison county Indiana who is deceased. The estate is solvent. John O. Anderson administrator. March 6 1905. Wm Ridley attorney.
A catalog of closeout deals offers men suits at 9.98 from 15, Dutchess trousers 10 percent off, unlaundered white shirts 29c, stiff bosom colored shirts 15c, hats 15c, 15 percent off bug in house, 10 percent off curtains, ladies kid gloves 79c, corsets 69c, silk remnants half price, dress goods remnants half price.
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