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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1920
Page
7
Local notice from New Albany Indiana describes prejudice against classes at Conner's Drug Store located at Pearl and Spring Streets. The public notice flags discriminatory actions affecting patrons and calls for awareness and remedies.
Mrs Ateo Bennett recovers as Nellie Brown departs to Owen County for teaching. Frank Jordan heads to Norman Oklahoma to enroll at a university. Grace Martin shifts to Columbus to teach French at VW High. second year there. Martha Hogan returns from Indianapolis visit. Keller family departs Albion after stay with Lockhart kin. Seabrook visits friends in town. Dowdie visits from Jeffersonville and Urbana connections. Catherine Ashworth travels to Sacred Heart Academy Louisville for study and music. John Bowman visits Crandall from Detroit for family ties and work at Ford. An incident near Tames Bird reveals a snake head three feet long. Nina Foppe and daughter depart Fort Worth after two years. Norma to Texas Christian University. J J B Morgan family heads Camp Lewis en route to Hawaiian deployments. Bearblossom family returns from Loogootee and Keensburg enjoying crops. Stilger renews Democrat subscription with father Peter. Weather: near weekly rains, corn remains green, early frost a threat, farmers seek warmth. A H Ayers departs for Washington DC with Adjutant General office. Mrs Chas Hurst and daughter Elizabeth join Ayers. Sunday visits to Resch home by multiple local families.
Nathan Corrad his daughter Mrs J V FPiorian and her son Jack of St Louis Mo visited Mrs Anna Long and Spencer Wilson and family last week. They will travel to Indianapolis and parts of Pennsylvania before returning home. Mrs Long accompanied them to Indianapolis and will stay a few weeks with her children Charles Long and Mrs Jas Bruce.
Mr and Mrs Oscar Garbesuon of Franklin township returned Koama last week from a week’s visit with Mrs Harhbeson’s brother Wm T Pepper and family and Mr and Mrs Chas Shaffer of Lebanon and Boones county. This was their first trip to Boones county.
Becne county, Lebanon, and Thorn town figures visit and hear Democratic orations in Lebanon. Mrs Warbesen’s family from New Albany spend a week with Mrs Idea Jordan. Adolph Hiemer and Fresno trip headline health and moving west. Tanzar dinner at Frenchtown Church draws old friends. Crandall loses to Old Reliables 3 1. Calumet Indians to play Crandall next Sunday vows strong game.
Marle Cox aged 24 admitted with accomplice James Powers to stealing a Ford Roadster in Corydon on September 2. Cox was seriously wounded after a gunfight with a patrolman. Powers fled. Both had histories with Indiana Reformatory. Vehicle owned by A. M. Nichtor of Delphi located after wire notices. The car was abandoned in a corn field near Muncie.
Cedar Island Fur Farms offers quick profits from muskrat farming with no experience required. Small investment and 5 cent reply request for full information, F. O. Box 142, Crisfield Maryland.
The Rhodes family of Indianapolis mourns their infant Jean Albertine born May 17 1424 died Sept 2 1920 at three months and seventeen days after digestive illness. Funeral at 1309 McCain Street with interment at Indianapolis Cemetery. Floral tributes and relatives attend from Harrison County.
Inquiries invited at local office for a pleasant Corydon residence sale. Prominent details limited to a housing listing urging immediate contact.
The Harrison Circuit Court through a commissioner will sell the east half of the northwest quarter of section 32 in township 3 south range 5 east, Harrison County Indiana. The public auction occurs Friday October 5 1920 at 2 PM two miles south of Lainesville. Purchase terms: one third cash, one third in six months, one third in twelve months. secured by mortgage or surety. interest 6 percent.
Personal property sale conducted same day as the Schmetzer farm auction on Friday October 8 1920 in the afternoon by Mr and Mrs Gotleib Schuetzer. Items include one horse two cows one fresh cow and a heifer two wagons a mower two wheat drills household and kitchen furniture and numerous smaller articles. Usual terms announced sale day.
Notice to Posey Township voters in Harrison County Indiana that Jacob Roudenbush et al pursue a free gravel or Macadam road. A re-estimate of project cost has been approved by the Harrison County Board of Commissioners totaling 816000 dollars. If no remonstrance is filed within 20 days the re-estimate becomes the official cost.
Notice to voters in Harrison Township Indiana that a new estimate of 20 000 has been reported to the Board of Commissioners in the Mosler highway improvement proceeding. The Board has approved and recorded the estimate in the county auditor’s office. Signed by commissioners David C. Fouts John L Windhell and Thomas H. Smith.
Harrison School Township and Daniel F. Stauth trustee filed with the State Board of Tax Commissioner a petition for a 2500 loan for the Special School Fund. A public hearing will be Oct 4 1920 at the State House Indianapolis unless a taxpayer objects, then evidence is taken in the county. Objections in writing by hearing date. Dated Sept 10 1920. Daniel F. Struth Harrison County Indiana. sepl5-2w
A petition filed with Auditor of Harrison County Indiana seeks a public highway relocation in Boone township. The filing asks the Board of Commissioners to appoint viewers to consider relocating the highway from the northwest corner of section 27 to the northeast quarter of section 28 and vacating a segment between those points along lands of local property owners. The request is signed by Geo B Felter Alonzo Brown and others. BAM C Mauck Auditor Harrison County Ind. sepii-2w
The Harrison County auditor reports a petition to the Board of Commissioners at the October 1920 term requesting the location of a new public highway in Spencer township. The plan details a 30 foot wide route from the Kellertown and White Cloud road to the Corydon and Wyandotte road, avoiding a ravine and using lands of Charles Peper and Leonard Hickman. The petition asks three viewers to assess the proposed road and is signed by John M. Engleman Julius Rothrock and others, auditor Sam Mauck noted.
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