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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1886
Page
3
The No. 1 Two Dans Comedy Co. will perform at the Opera House Friday April 16 with Bryan O Lyan and Wm. Ashton. John Howarth owner leads a production with new scenery and special features. Parquette and dress circle 50 cents, gallery 35 cents. Seats at usual place.
Money to Loan Lam presents loan terms with 7 percent on under $1,000, 8 1/2 percent from $1,000 to $2,000, and 6 percent on sums over $2,000. Cras E. Barrett.
The Ohio Patriot records the death of Samuel Crawford age 77 six miles east of New Lisbon on Thursday March 25 from typhoid pneumonia. He left a large family including seven of nine surviving children who were teachers in the county. A temperate, charitable man and longtime Presbyterian, Crawford died after arranging his affairs and recognizing his heavenly call. Funeral by Rev. A B Marshall at his home. burial by Erastus Eells of New Lisbon. mourners remember his virtues and pious example.
Hymera Indiana April 8 1884 patrons of the Jackson township Dist No 10 school publish a reply to a recent squib by Strabor. they deny claims of fortnightly dime museum meetings and praise the six month term with three entertainments. they commend teacher Mrs Laura Everhart and list supporters including W K McGrew James W Marrata John Johnson and others.
The following names are unclaimed at Sullivan Indiana postoffice and will go to the dead letter office after thirty days if not called for John Ambrose Wm Brown J T Brown Annie Bredwell Levi Bailey George Claggitt Mrs Mary Chambers Cawdle and Bro Fisk W H Eaton Carl Garrett Thomas Goad Lizzie Huffman Mrs Sophia Hammer Mrs Sarah Houch Francis M Leach Geo Land O C Merrifield Amanda Miller M C Moran John Neal Wm N Patten Sarah Plew Benny Quin Owen Ridgway Panama Saucerman Harvey C Fipton Clo Williams W Waggoner J Wily J Ernest Sullivan Ind April 5 1886
Results from April 5 1886 show trustees assessors and justices of the peace across townships, including Haddon Curry Jefferson Jackson Fairbanks Turman and more. The circuit court proceedings list perjury intoxication assault riot and other cases with fines bonds and dismissals.
James T. Allen versus John 8 Willis James H Willis and Nelson Wilkey involve damages of $837.18 plus $65 in attorney fees. P H Blue versus William Jesse G and Isaac B Moon on note and mortgage results in judgment for $65 and $10 in attorney fees.
The Knights of Labor plan an officers election at the G A R hall next Saturday evening as a prep for organizing in the following week. Only members who have signed up will be admitted. Carl ise witness Lee Wolfe of Paxton died after being struck by a southbound train near Buck Creek between Buck Creek and Busseron while walking the E and T H R R track. he was about sixty five, father to a large family.
The piece recounts how a planchette like talking board and a four legged table move to spell answers, with readers noting both sensible and silly results. It then profiles Bernard Macauley, a New York born actor and manager who died of Bright's disease in 1900s New York, leaving wife Rachel Johnson.
The article profiles Kate Field a famed lecturer and writer from St. Louis educated in Massachusetts and England who toured the United Kingdom promoting the Bell telephone and later Mormonism in the United States. It also notes California Governor Stoneman appointing George Hearst to the US Senate and outlines Hearst mining fortune and political rise.
Rev W H Milburn, famed as the House of Representatives chaplain and nicknamed the blind preacher, is highlighted as a vigorous, mobile, eloquent figure. Born in Philadelphia in 1523, he traveled over 200000 miles as a Methodist itinerant and once led a stint as Buchanan era chaplain.
Notice to heirs creditors and legatees of George E Manwarring George Botts Abner B Anderson Joan Riggs and Clater B Shepherd to appear in Sullivan Circuit Court Sullivan Indiana April 17 1886 and show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved and to prove heirship and receive distributive shares witnessed by Clerk Thomas J Mann on April 1 1886
The Toledo Commercial Telegraph notes satirical portraits of Senators Evarts and Harrison. Evarts is depicted wearing an era hat hung at the back of his head, his lower face seeming to dry in the hat. Harrison is critiqued as assembled by contractors, with mismatched upper and lower features giving a stout-legged, bus-like silhouette.
A long profile of J Harris Rogers, son of Dr J W Rogers, describing his age around 25 to 30, London and Paris education, talents as an electrical expert, and his close collaboration with his father in the Pan Electric venture opposing Bell Telephone. It notes his reserved nature, distinctive appearance, musical voice, and strong loyalty to his father.
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