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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1923
Page
8
A congregational meeting will be held at the Presbyterian church of Elizabeth on Sunday September 23 to elect two new deacons. The evening service time is changed from 8:00 PM to 7:30 PM and members are urged to attend and participate.
Local notes list many visitors and residents from Dead Wood South Dakota Casper Wyoming Detroit Michigan Kokomo Indiana New Albany and Indianapolis who were in Milltown for a fair or on business. People include Isaac Froman and daughter Mrs Ray Hall Lizzie Engleman and Pan Indianapolis Mrs Sallie Funk and granddaughter and many others visiting or returning home.
A Depauw Milltown community column records a busy week of visits from Mrs. Gurts and Mrs. Arnold, a Fox hunting pair, a near amputation accident at a Spring Dairy Farm, a state road meeting, and a lively fair. Borough residents age in on showers, sickness, and church activities as schools prepare to open and local stores promote radios.
A local farmers meeting is announced at Briles' School house in Harrison township on Wednesday night September 19 1928 with speakers Claude A Davis N I Clunie and L A Stoy. A separate note reports a new Modern Woodmen Camp at Palmyra named New Albany Camp Mathes hosting Mrs Gen Shiees and family members during dedication events with invited neighbors.
The court sustained a motion to quash the affidavit in a bigamy case against Frank Redden, ruling no Indiana jurisdiction since marriages occurred in Kentucky and Illinois. It also held the statute of limitations had expired. Redden, who deserted his first wife’s child, pled guilty to child desertion and was ordered to pay ten dollars monthly. He had first married Miss Ethel Beaublossom of Washington township and was jailed in New Albany before posting bond.
Miss Jessie Mae Smith entertained friends at her Elizabeth area home before her trip to New Albany. The gathering featured games, music, social chat, and refreshments of cake fruit and lemonade. Attendees included Naomi Johns Winnie Dee Blunk Georgia Cromwell Marguerite Lawson Mary Alvey Alice Bryant Irene Alvey Dorothea McRae Hazel Smith and more plus John Blunk Andrew Barnickle Edward Barnickle Curtis Barger Charles Russell Ivan Flanigan Irvin Russell Leo Johnson L S Russell William Coke J L DeLime Howard Jobs Walter Bierly Kenneth Johnson.
The document presents library usage and inventory figures for the month including totals of volumes, juvenile fiction and non fiction, adult fiction and non fiction, magazines, and visitors. It lists new registrations, cards withdrawn, beginning and ending holdings, and daily averages with totals for juvenile and adult visitors.
Posey School Township invites sealed bids for a new addition to YWigh School Building at Elizabeth Indiana. Bids due October 6 1923 at 2 PM with 100 dollar certified check. project estimated at 2100 dollars and bond requirements as specified. Township Advisory Board may reject all bids. William W Weaver Trustee.
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