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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1918
Page
5
The Corydon Democrat lists sales and ads for farm supplies and livestock from J J Sutlell Son and Pratt feeding products, plus farm labor calls and local notices. Cattle shipments by Claud Sharp and Louis Mann, real estate offerings, insurance, and local service ads appear alongside illness and fire notes and subscription renewals.
March and April affidavits are required in the Auditor's Office for real estate mortgage tax exemptions with limits of half the assessed value and a maximum exemption of seven hundred dollars. April 30 is the deadline. Also updates on IRS bank deposits taxation myths and local social notes about residents and visitors.
Louis Biehl died March 5 in a Chicago hospital after months of kidney troubles. He was an eight week patient. His wife, a Harrison County woman formerly Miss Hattie Breeze born at Elizabeth, survives him. Her sister is Mrs Emma Miller of Corydon, where relatives visited. Mr Biehl had many friends there.
Health remains moderate as the Lew Clarks depart to Ohio and plan to settle in Monmouth. Roy Miller takes over the Lew Clark farm, and W T McBride returns from Hot Springs. Lewis Hood and Robert McBride anticipate entering military service soon. Ed Edgar’s family visited Will Kitterman’s clan, while Adda Miller stays with her son Ray. Mr and Mrs A R Kitterman and AnnaKitterman joined Ada Coffman for dental work in Monmouth.
A list of books about the Great War and wartime experience appears, followed by local notices. The text then shifts to a family moving to Marquis Saskatchewan for farming, selling household goods in Corydon Township, and a local high school contest and a birth at Moberly with military parent. It ends with notes on travel and residence changes of local residents.
Funeral services for Henry Dannenfelser were held Thursday at 2 PM at the Presbyterian church after the son Fred arrived. Rev. Fred Smith led the service with music by a quartet and organist Mrs G C Doolittle. pallbearers included L C Keller and Geo W Applegate while Mr Gr ain spoke in German about the deceased. Dennis Sieg and family from Fairmont Nebraska visited during two weeks with relatives in Spencer and Harrison townships.
The list shows bargain subscription prices for major papers including The Louisville Herald Evening Post Evening Times Courier Journal Indianapolis News and Indianapolis Star. Agent Wik Christley promotes the lowest wartime rates available in 1918.
A farm six miles southwest of Corydon is offered with payments of one fourth cash at sale, one fourth due in six months, one fourth in twelve months, and one fourth in eighteen months. Land description appears in the legal notice elsewhere in this issue of the Democrat.
Notice to voters in Taylor township Harrison county Indiana of a re estimate of the cost for a free gravel road. Engineers and viewers appointed report the re estimate at two thousand dollars and it has been approved as of March 5 1915 by Commissioners David C. Fouts Jesse Pitman Nicholas Eve.
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