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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1916
Page
5
Corydon Democrat reports on farms near Heth township with Millet seed cow peas and rape seed. local commerce features W.H. Bullett & Sons. Short items note illnesses, visits, employment, and community happenings across Corydon and surrounding towns.
State of Ohio Toledo Lucas County Frank J. Cheney senior partner of F L J Cheney Co swears a firm owes one hundred dollars for each catarrh claim. The document notes a medical cure for catarrh and urges use of Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials and a public seal by Clerk W Gleason dated December 1886.
Farmers plant corn as community notices list visits by Mrs. Aluma O Bannon to her parents Sunday. Ruth Glaze from Louisville visits cousin thei Kingery. Catherine Kitterman returns home from New Albany. Frank Mayfield and family from Floyd County spend Sunday with Mr and Mrs Wm Wilson. Schoen family visit Elizabeth. Filmer Bryant of Laconia stays with aunt J Hollis. Harry Baumegarde visits aunt Miss Mary McElfresh in New Albany. Alfred Smith family guest of Aaron Johnson. Guss Pearson of Louisville spends day with mother here. Nate McEllfresh and wife of Louisville among neighbors last Sunday. Uncle Bill Toops rewrites house painting. Ed Farnsley and Fred Ed Schoen finish new barns. Vachel Farnsley returns from Manville for several days. Mary Wilson visits relatives in New Albany.
Sunday May 21 at J T Brown’s Rosewood home a surprise party honored Mrs Brown on her 60th birthday. Guests from Louisville New Albany Fort Wayne Lanesville Elizabeth and nearby areas joined about 60 attendees. A long table under the trees held many foods and twenty eight large cakes with a pink birthday cake and sixty pink candles. A hand carved glass front safe was among gifts amid musical entertainment and photos of guests and family.
Ben F. Smith of New Grocery seeks one hundred turtles June 1 weighing four pounds or more at five cents a pound. Mrs. O Pearlman of New York announces the marriage of daughter Rose to Lazarus Moosnick of Poughkeepsie at Synagogue of Neshwes in New York on May 20. Also an ad invites buyers to a 95 acre Corydon Indiana country home with six room house, outbuildings, 30 acres in orchard, on good pike two miles east, by C L Dick.
Case after case shows Corydon residents like James Glenn praising Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble and backache relief. Glenn, a retired farmer, recalls years of illness and says the remedy helped him, a claim he reaffirmed over two years later. Price 50 cents at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY.
Waveland farmers busy planting corn this week. Will Zollman fell ill recently. Arthur Zollman and Louis Walther traveled to New Albany for dental work. Local youths attend the commencement at Lanesville. Mrs. Caroline Ott of Lanesville visits her brother. Multiple family visits and travel among Voelker Gleitz Zollman and Walther families.
Washington reports the senate committee approved a post office bill adding $100 to each of the 42 900 rural mail carriers in the United States. If enacted this permanent raise follows last year’s failed attempt. In Indiana Thomas H Crecelius near Corydon will sell farm property June 18 including 8 horses 4 Jersey cows and more at public auction.
Real estate ad notes two residences and a good business house in Corydon available via inquiry at the office. Includes assorted local notices about residents and events such as Old Capital Centennial members from Oska loose Iowa and travel updates. Also lists sale of a fine year-old mare Will Direk Corydon R3 and a June 13 auction by Thomas Creceius and repair shop services at Novelty Repair Shop.
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