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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1917
Page
7
Busy local column lists a sow and six pigs for sale and farm wagons by Weber and Old Hickory at W H Bullett Sons Inc. Residents travel to Louisville Indianapolis Springfield and Viney Illinois. A divorce case in New Albany grants custody. parties linked to Corydon and Harrison County. Significant local names include Miss Lelia Borden Clara Bennett Henry Wiseman and Mr. and Mrs. Keller.
A mixed local item column notes sales offers and several residents departing for work, plus farm updates and family visits. The piece includes Dewey Rusk and Archie Fulkerson seeking corn husker work, Mrs. Belle Stromire visiting New Albany, and Mr. LeMay returning to Crandall after joining Brown Manly Plow Co. It also reports Rev. Wachter and Arthur Ricbert attending a Synodical meeting in Evansville and Uncle Josh’s humorous poultry claim with a pledge to test the feed.
Local notices list purchases, sales, jobs, and social visits. Citizens such as Corydon Elevator, Matthew Schmid, and Dolly Gast are noted alongside family visits to Indianapolis, a typhoid illness, and upcoming weddings and marriages in Corydon and surrounding towns.
Local items report lost items, births, illnesses, and social visits across Elizabeth Corydon and nearby towns. Highlights include a birth of Lonnie Rooksby, illness of John McKinney, and several farm and property listings. Members of the community travel for family reasons and attend events at the School Auditorium and other local venues.
Twenty or more Harrison county men work at the car works in Jeffersonville. For sale nine pigs seven weeks old. Levi Blunk Crandall Ind. Phone Crandall Exchange 617-27. Mrs Rilda Shireman west of Corydon visits her three sons in DeWitt Arkansas for five or six weeks. Lizzie Pfrimmer returned to Omaha after a month in Corydon county tending her farm. A 153 acre farm for sale three miles east of New Middletown Rudolph Schneider Corydon Ind R. 1. Clell Frederick north of town reports a fine potato crop with seventy bushels from two bushels planted. Aaron Sherrill travels to Martinsville for mineral baths. fifth trip for rheumatism. Will Stonecipher and Basil Byrne assigned to post exchange of the 385th Infantry from Harrison county Indiana. clerks frequently changed but likely extended service. Courier-Journal
Taylor Zenor Cunningham son of ex commissioner Frank Cunningham of Boone shifts to Vincennes for a bridge company post. Amzi Richard secures U. S. Government Depot inspector job in Jeffersonville. John Johnson of St Louis visits family in this county and plans winter in Nebraska with daughter Addie Aydelotte. Subscriptions to the Democrat renewed by several readers including S. Flanigan and Gedic D. Fouts.
A friendly event invites all nonattenders to join the Christian Sunday School next Sunday as boys and men aim to outnumber the girls and women in attendance.
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