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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1909
Page
7
The Corydon Democrat notes events around Salem and nearby towns with arrivals, trips, and social updates. Attendees include Wiseman and Bullett offering fertilizers, Miss Vera Fisher visiting New Albany, and Prof J Lucien Morris returning to Hillsdale College. Services announced at Black's Chapel September 18 and 19 led by Rev F C Raaf.
Annery offers to buy picked and wind-fall apples at good prices. Call W. H. Bussa, pbarger, in Eureka for details and arrangements.
Local items describe travel visits and family updates among Corydon residents. Mentions include John McClaran of Louisville visiting relatives, Blanche Clemmons returning from Hanover, and several families taking trips to New Albany and Louisville. A birth is noted Meredith Hart Bierly, plus obituaries and fair coverage.
A community column from Corydon Indiana covers a steady stream of local life. Mentions Meech's bread Eureka phone 153 and Joe McClaran's fruit trees for Corydon and Medford Oklahoma relatives visiting for fair seasons. Sudden lightning at John Lohmeyer home and notes on travels of Rev Sibert and others. Also reports H T Conde exhibit Corydon wagon at the State Fair and religious talks by Dr S A Smith and Miss McClintick. W D Bartle signs off.
Charles Close visits Corydon friends. Miss Elsie Loitch born September 14 at Frank Carpenter place. Community notices cover farming, church services, fairs, lost items, business changes, and local marriages. Mentions include Rev Condo sermons, E Z Bake Elevator crowds, and several residents' name-drops and moves.
Harrison County residents share health and travel updates, visits, and family news. Illnesses include Misa Mary Lopp with appendicitis. Julia Peter visiting Rev M L Peter. several relatives travel to Kentucky, Nebraska, and Kansas. contractors plan improvements around the public square. religious services held at Christian and Methodist churches. Rhodes family reunion notes. local business trips and medical treatment for kidney trouble.
Mrs Andrew Wolf came home last Saturday from Plymouth Indiana where she had been for several weeks receiving rheumatism treatment. The stay proved beneficial and she is much improved. Mr Wolf accompanied her from Plymouth and returned home with her.
A week long promotion offers a four quart granite stew pan and lid as a premium with every seventy five cent purchase of tea coffee spices and extracts. The offer ends Saturday September 18 and Mrs Malissa Fetzer is the代理 for Corydon and vicinity. Perry Conrad has returned to Cane Valley Kentucky to resume work after several weeks at home and Orlan his son will depart today. Mr C and his son were briefly out of work due to a saw mill fire affecting Wood Mosaic Company of New Albany.
Short notices include Indiana Day at the Kentucky State Fair, farm sales and auctions, a gray mare for sale call Vernon Rhoades’ blacksmith shop, and final report filed by Farmers Savings and Trust Co. as trustee of Elmer Davis & Co. insolvent estate. Also mentions licensed marriage, Peach variety credit, and travel notes from Louisvilles events.
The Corydon Branch runs a special train Thursday Sept 16 for the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville. Depart 5.40 a.m. to connect with the early Louisville train at Junction. Return from Louisville at 4.30 and 10.10 p.m. to allow attendance and evening return.
Near Valley City last Saturday afternoon Herman Fleshman thirteen year old son of Mr and Mrs Lyman Fleshman suffered severe injury when a horse startled a mowing machine threw him from the seat onto the knife. Doctors amputated about four inches below the elbow and he is reported as doing as well as could be expected. Mr Fleshman operates the Corner Drug Store.
The September term opens with Judge Christopher Wayne Cook presiding and Clyde R. Lottick as prosecuting attorney. This grand jury term will hear indictments from residents aware of crimes. Cook retires Oct 22. Judge William Ridley to take office Oct 23 for six years. Cook, twelve-year veteran, is praised for honest, able service and few reversals. W. S. Watson of Heth leaves for Nebraska prospecting tour.
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