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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1919
Page
8
George Harrison heads to Terre Haute for the 8 State Normal. The Indice aids lunch at W H Dyer Vale on May 9. Local sales include Lehigh Portland cement and feed by J J Bullett and Son. Citizens Corners report illness and recoveries, farm sales, and public notices. life in Crandall reflects wartime service, pensions, and community memory.
Fresh eswa for sale and nearby notices. Typhoid illness in Day ton and Dr Lorenso Ferree in Stafford Kansas. Local sales from W H Bullett Sone and J J Fullers Son. Commencement at High School Elizabeth May Std. Various visits and arrivals including Mr and Mrs Alva Anderson and Mrs Clarence E Blame. From W A Buileit Sons and other local business ads.
Items include farm equipment for sale in Corydon and New Albany District church conference dates. Mrs Dora Wheat arrives from Kansas City to visit family while musicians attend Louisville May Music Festival. Knights of St. John plan annual convention at Lanesville May 11 with open noon meal at Catholic School Hall. Mothers Day and Home Department Day set for Pfrimmer's Chapel May 11 with Rev. J H Toombs speaking.
Joseph Wismann of Floyd County and his son John of Franklin township sold the fifty three and a half acre Franklin township farm long owned by the Wismann family for over fifty years. Local residents hosted visitors from Veedersburg and nearby towns, with twenty nine in attendance at the gathering. A hardware store note promotes oil stores and ovens, and Dr. Cr L Stevens of Corydon recalls an eye injury in 1918 with improving vision. The Brandenbergs report their son Jesse arrived in New York City from France and may be discharged at Camp Sherman. Indiana marks Rat Extermination Day on May 27 as Gov proclamation urges households to eradicate rats, and HARE Hardware advertises paints and related supplies.
The Overland Model 90 set a high gear distance record of 4370.1 miles in 168 hours. Crandall figure includes W. H. Dyer sale next Friday May 9 with 26 head of sheep and lambs and four percent cash discount.
Notice from Thornwood Poultry Yards and Hatcheries Crandall Indiana announces twice weekly egg and market egg truck routes from near Crandall to Depauw with cream revenue. Plans to raise hatching capacity to 40 000 eggs per setting and add several new thoroughbred flocks. Also advertises catalog for baby chicks and lists local health notices and daily services.
Mr and Mrs Andrew Bauman of Laconia toured Corydon last Saturday and were courteous visitors at the office. They run the Eureka telephone exchange in Laconia. Also noted: John Kaylor, former County Surveyor, and his father David Kaylor of Morgan township attended court. Mrs Kaylor has been in poor health. A reader notice touts the Overland car’s World record and a local dealer Will Saffer promotes it.
A short notice advertises a Black Hawk Corn Planter ready for delivery or rental from 207-26 .W. A. Bullett & Sons. The rest appears as scattered political commentary about a county tax law and a former legislator who opposed it.
The Laconia High School commencement is set for Wednesday night May 14 at the local Presbyterian church. Prof. W. P. Deering of Oakland City College will deliver the address. The preceding day, May 13, will feature the class day exercises of the Aphooh as read.
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