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Newspaper
Carlisle News
Location
Carlisle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
3
Paul R. Hackney returned home from Chicago for a few weeks visit with family. George Whipps of San Bernardino California, visiting here, made a business trip to Sullivan on Monday.
Local and personal items from Carlisle detail Akins clothing lines and millinery, along with visits by Wm Arnold of Bellevue Coal Co to Terre Haute and Evansville. Vincennes residents Chas Ridgway and Hal Myers visit, while Miss Ethel Denison returns home with Hal Myers. Sullivan and Carlisle correspondents mention dry status, G A R memorials, and various regional trips and sales.
At the Carlisle opera house meeting the Home Comers Fourth of July plans were set. Prominent speakers include Thomas R. Marshall and John C. Chaney. A grand parade with floats, bands, and a flag drill. prizes offered for best decorated wagon and best dressed lady driven rig.
Word reached Carlisle that Elmer J Morgan wed Frances Hennegan in Wilkes Barre about two weeks ago. He and his wife visited Frances sister in Evansville as Morgan had worked for Carlisle Coal & Clay Co. for two years and returned home April 23.
C A Phillips tent show "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" was moved to the Carlisle Opera House after rain prevented pitching the tent. The performance drew a poor Carlisle crowd and, as typical for such shows, did not meet high standards but pleased the audience.
The Gill township levee cut last week to release floodwater back into the river has drained the flooded area rapidly. Farmers have resumed plowing as fields dry, signaling a return toward normal agricultural activity in the district.
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