Community Notes From Corydon Democrat
Judge C W Cook spent last Saturday in Louisville on business. J B Jenkins of St John visited the county last week seeking a farm. Mrs J B Shepard of Seymour visits sister Mrs Lizzie Wright and relatives. Miss Geneva Dellinger is stenographer at the White House in New Albany. Farmers report fine weather and a large wheat sowing in the county. Harve Miller near Dogwood Webster township recovering from appendicitis. Mrs Anna Albin of Louisville visits daughter Mrs W H Davis in Spencer township who is ill. Mrs John Fennett visits Mr and Mrs John Graves in New Albany. Mrs G improving after illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harve Miller
Webster Township
Dogwond
Anna Albin
Louisville
Wiliam H. Davis
Spencer Township
John Fennett
John Graves
New Albany
Chase
K. Hendrich
Davebter
Malinda
Morgan Township
Corydon
Hendich
Leander Bottles
Edna
Nashville
Tennessee
Teo
Victoria Hotel
A. R. Connor
New Amsterdam
Democrat
Mr. Connor
Southern Indiana Orchard Company
Harry Fowler
Crandall
John Hendrick
Mro
Irs
JH. Kinks
Ladogs
Indiana
Mesochethe
Wiliam Baelz
Lois
Hinkie
Vantovide
Se. Julians
Levi Chae
Vechigan
Norianie
Vaelboniina Cline
Wud Wes Hinkie
Pumpkins for sale and local notices from Cedar Farm
For Sale about 1400 ripe pumpkins at Mrs Emma Lahne's farm near Hursttown church. Subscribers urged to bring wood or subscribe. need wood for heating and cooking. Mrs SK Jones and Mr W Zenor with John FW Heth visited the Kintners at Cedar Farm in Boone township last Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Lahne
Hursttown Church
Beth
SK. Jones
W.". Zenor
John FW. Heth
J. P. Kintner
Cedar Farm
Boone Township
Perfection of heaters and local notices in Corydon
Community notes report heaters guaranteed not to smoke and a wide stock of winter goods. Local residents including Geo B Wahl, Cort Engleman and Arm en Bottles are mentioned with visits and military training updates. Births, illnesses, and a thank you for funeral kindness accompany social news from Corydon Indiana with small business notices and ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. B. Wahl
Corydon
Local notes on illness travel and farm ads in Corydon
Mrs. Fred Barnes of Elizabeth is ill with pneumonia. Oct 26 clocks back one hour. Dr. L. L. Gullett of Palmyra recovered from influenza. Mrs Addie Carroll visiting Indianapolis relatives. Farmers urged to compare wagons and stock with prices. Local visits include Nicholas Uhl of Louisville and Marie Justina Staib in Dogwood. Coal stoves and heaters advertised. Corydon residents and visitors frequent the office, with ailments and family travel noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Uhl
Louisville
Corydon
Joseph UL. Staib
Dogwood
Marie Justina
Staib
Mr. Uhl
War stories and local veterans visit Leavenworth crowd
Sergt Hugh Marsh a former Leavenworth boy spoke to a large opera house audience about his ten months service in France with General Pershing on the Mexican Border. He was among the first U S troops to land in France and was chosen with fifty men to assist Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives. William F Kelley and family toured from Rush County India and may move back home after ten days with relatives. Will Kelley, forty three, registered under the draft and pledges readiness to serve without exemption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sergt
Hugh Marsh
Leavenworth
France
Opera House
Seret. Marsh
Cieneral Pershing
Mexican
U. S
General Pershing
United States
Red Cross
Eli. G. McCullum
Crawford Co. Democrat
William F. Kelley
Rush County
Arthur
Claude
John A. Kelley
Will
Subscription notes and local notices from Corydon weekly
Community items report renewals for the Democrat newspaper including Jesse Dooley and Mrs. A. Connor. Local details cover military service exams, farm sales, and a Liberty Loan reminder with various town names and family visits across Corydon Boone and surrounding areas.
Hastings Man Charley Irwin Visits Family Before Service
Charles Irwin of Hastings Nebraska visits brothers George C. and Tom Irwin after returning from Louisville with his mother. A former Corydon boy, he spent years in the West in mercantile work and has enrolled as a YMCA volunteer for the war, bound for New York to report for duty. For sale nine head of Poland China shoats weighing about fifty pounds each. Arthur Benson 616 Corydon Ind K R 38.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Irwin
Hastings
Nebraska
George C
Tom Irwin
Louisville
Charley
Corydon
West
Y.M.C. A
New York City
Neven Head
Poland
China
Arthur Benson
Ind
K. R
Mrs Mollie A Miller Died in Illinois While Visiting Son
Mrs Mollie A Miller wife of George Miller trustee of Franklin township died at her son Walter Millers home in Decatur Illinois after four years of illness. The body was taken to George town for burial with funeral services at Wolfe cemetery conducted by Rev C O Stevens. She leaves her husband and two sons Walter of Decatur and Harvey of Franklin township. She was a Christian and lived in Corydon yesterday local items mention conscription and military service including Hammett Williams overseas since January 1916. W H Bullett & Sons advertises gasoline engines wood saw and feed grinders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mollie A. Miller
George Miller
Franklin Township
Walter Miller
Uvecatur
Ilinois
Wolfe's Cemetery
Georgetown
C. O. Stevens
Christian Church
Wolfe Cemetery
William H. Stewart
William Maynard
William N. Williams
Golden H
Posey Township
Corydon
Stewart
Mr. Williams
United States
Willams
Harrison County
Louisville
Sugardrove
Williams
Lon Weedmen
Aged Citizen Christopher Woertz Dies at Home
Christopher Woertz one of the county’s oldest residents died Thursday October 10 at his home near Lianesville after long illness. Born in Baden Germany in April 1838 he came to America at age six and settled on the family farm. He leaves eleven children including Judith Reinhardt Hannah Simbriska Kate Mathers Wm Abraham John Woertz Ida Kendle Maggie Omacher Lizzie Leiber George Woertz Matilda Lind and Anna Deaser and one sister Mrs John Zabel. Funeral services by Rev C Schleicher at St John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church were private due to the Spanish influenza epidemic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Woertz
Lianesville
Mr. Woertz
Baden
Germany
America
Hannah Simbriska
Kate Mathers
Abraham
John Woertz
Ida Kendle
Louisville
Maggie Omacher
Lizzie Leiber
New Albany
George Woertz
White County
Ind
Matilda Lind
New Middletown
Anna ‘Deaser
Corydon
John Zabel
C. Schleicher
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
St. John’s Cemetery
Former Corydon Residents Highlighted in Courierejournal
The Courierejournal piece discusses George Van Wercke, Belgian-born artist and editor, married to Margaret Lowry. It notes Lieut Thome McGrain Lowry with the Lincoln Division in France, sister Helen Baileit Lowry as a war correspondent, and Van Wercke at an Officers Training Camp. It mentions the Lowry and McGrain families and the mother once Miss Zettie McGrain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corydon
Tieorge van Wereke
Liberty Loan
Louisville
Laddie
George van Wercke
Margaret Lowry
Lieut
Thome McGrain Lowry
Lincoln
France
Helen Baileit Lowry
George van ‘Vercke
FL. Lee
Largs
Cuthbert Bairtitt Lowry
Alexander Leow But
Yale Battery
Zettie McGrain
Init Thomas MeGrain
Burial of Mother and Son in Influenza Tragedy
Henry Carl Faith aged ten and his mother Blanche Faith died from Spanish influenza in New Albany. Henry Carl's funeral was held at Union Chapel Boone township with Rev. Henry McKim officiating. Blanche Faith, 28, followed him in burial after a Monday arrival to Union Chapel. husband Frank Faith remained gravely ill. The family had lived in Corydon before moving to New Albany a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Carl Faith
Frank Faith
New Albany
Union Chapel
Boone Township
Henry McKim
Blanche Faith
Sunday School Convention Postponed in Harrison County
The Harrison County Sunday School Convention scheduled for Oct 23 and 24 is indefinitely postponed. County President John Daley and Rev. and Mrs. Myers McKinney and family visited relatives in Elizabeth and Fredericksburg during their stay. The McKinneys have four children and Rev McKinney has fourteen years of ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison County
John Daley
Myers McKinney
Merom
Indiana
McKinney
Sims
Charles
Elmer
Fredericksburg
Newtoanville
Leslie
Eve
Charlobie Kuta
Merem
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Corydon Democrat
Judge C. W W. Cook
J. B. Jenkins
St. John, Ky
J. B. Shepard
Seymour
Lizzie Wright
Geneva Dellinger
White House
Newland Knight
Thos. W. Knight
Gurvey
Chas. Evans
Lloyd Johnson
Johnson
Henry Sonner
Louisville University
Washington Township
Indianapolis
Armen
James Benson
Cort Engleman
Jeffersonville
Scott Township
Isaac
Steenleton
George Wrrr
Wesley Dellinger
Orleans
Play Doagherty
Claud LaVerne
Tettie Dellinger
Robert 8. Kirkboro
Iaid
Odes
John Bloomfelter
Spercer Township
John
Co. F, 79Th Ind
Bloomfelter
Duree
F.ee Davidson
Fred Barnes
Elizabeth
L. L. Gullett
Palmyra
Fla
Mrs. Addie Carroll
Harrison and
Edward Pitmen
Misaj Bessie Milier
Peru
W. H. Bullett & Sons, Inc
Herman Bauer
Money
Joe
Lanesville
Janerville
William Ryland
Wm. H. Ham
Benjamin Lasley
Samuel Lasley
Ida Belte Iresham
George Gresham
Deaconess Hospital
George Love
Detroit
Mich
A. M. Love
Greencastle
Mr. Love
Altice Bennett
Frank Roudenbush
Lydia
Delavan
Illinois
Henry Roudenbush
Frank
Cotchie Seesengood
Corydon Mondey
Jesse Dooley
Thomas W. Zimmerman
Bone Township
L. 8. Crosier
Conisville
Bruce Markel
Grace Carroll
Knox, Ind
G. C. Rainbolt
Harry Bear
Henry Davidson
Marion Reas
Stithton
Wardie Applegate
Richmond
J. D. Burney
Duquoin, Ill
Depauw
Marengo
Willard Shaffer
Eureka
Edward Pitman
Central
Flo
Roy Evans
W. H. Bullett & Sons
the Democrat of the
Wilson
William Feller
McLean
Cynthia A. Ellis
Blue River Township
Y. M. C. A. Service
Stetson
Keller’s
W. H. Keller Co
W.H. Bullett & Sons
Lone Timess
Carl Faith
Corydom
Ballett & Sons
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