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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1921
Page
5
Community news and notices from Corydon Indiana area including births and visits of residents such as Sylvia Pope and Waldo Pope, sales and ads for coal oil and furnaces, a fertilizer sale, debt appeals, and personal travel notes mentioning the Pope family, Bulley It and Son businesses, and Roosevelt infantile paralysis report from 1920 New Albany Ledger context.
Mrs Mollie Saffer sold her residence on FE Mill street to A G O Smith, recent buyer of Blue Spring Bottling Works. Mrs Saffer bought W J Bulleit's residence on North Market. Mr Bullett plans a new modern home on the former C M Miller lot at High and Mulberry.
Miss Mary Jane Bye visits family in New Albany while Miss Salome Messier visits parents near Corydon. Mr Jesse King and daughter Sylvia stay with Corydon relatives. Purdue student Howard McKinster begins second year at Lafayette. Dr L L Bullett to practice in Terre Haute after Chicago course. For Sale a Superior wheat drill. Georgetown High School plans an ice cream lawn fete September 29. Purdue pledge Miss Margaret Lahue joins Kappa Gamma sorority. Henry Seburn visits Bedford and New Albany relatives. Jacob Keller, long-time Lincoln bodyguard, dies in San Jose at age seventy eight.
Wet September scenes as residents report illnesses births and travel. Obituaries note Jas Adkins, Civil War veteran, dying at 78 in English. Farmers apply lime to soil and Earl Watson relocates to Indianapolis. W. H. Bussabarger lists household items for sale October 1 in Corydon.
Read the display ad for W H Bussabarger's sale noting a good property sale and additional lots and buildings to be offered Saturday October 1. The notice mentions Mr and Mrs Clyde Wallace and family visiting relatives near Corydon from Cuyahoga Falls Ohio with Miss Grace Mosa ler and Mr and Mrs Fred Moss ier Jr.
October 2 is set for Sunday School Rally day at Corydon Presbyterian Methodist and Christian Sunday Schools. Also noted is a public sale by W. H. Bussabarger on October 1 in Corydon featuring a 40x40 storage garage three vacant lots each 45 feet wide a five room house sixty foot lot and seven or eight acres of adjoining land plus fine walnut and mahogany household furniture. Auctioneer RB F. Davis will conduct the sale starting 9:30 A M.
Joseph J. Kintner and his father Dudley C. Kintner presented an ear of corn grown near Corydon last Saturday. The ear measures thirteen and a half inches, has 16 rows with 62 grains per row, totaling about 992 grains.
Ex County Clerk James A Watson has taken employment with the Inter Southern Life Insurance Company of Louisville and is doing well. Ward Brown formerly of Corydon serves as the district manager for the Inter Southern Company in this territory and is described as a blunder.
Mrs. Robert E. Long of Little Rock Arkansas asks for the Democrat to be sent to her address. She wishes to reach Harrison county residents again, noting she was a former Harrison county girl and was formerly Miss Elsie Vernia.
Floyd Gibson son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Gibson of Scott township went to Terre Haute last Friday to enter the Indiana State Normal as a student for the regular nine months term. He had been at home briefly after returning from Terre Haute where he attended the three months summer term of the State Normal.
Henry Brengman reports his thirteen year old son Archie raised a remarkable eight foot tall corn stalk. The ear sits a long distance from the root and the stalk is now nailed to the dead elm tree at the Democrat office corner for passersby to view.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis C. Ferree of Louisville visited Mr. and Mrs. Angus Evans of New Middletown and Lew M. O'Bannon and family of Corydon last Sunday. Ferree, a pattern maker, has lived in Louisville twenty eight years and was born in Boone township, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Ferree.
Judge George K H McIntire and Hon Walter V Bullett both from New Albany and Hon John H Luckett of English attended court here last Thursday. Luckett reports English has had a business boom since July with several factories locating there to employ about 200 people. A fine Masonic Lodge building is also being erected.
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