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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1884
Page
3
Residents send word for visiting and returning friends as the town markets goods and visitors. Miss Anna Coulson and Mrs. A. J. Stewart are ill. Easter plans, services, and presbytery notes appear alongside a long list of local business ads and arrivals.
Davis Engle Davis announce readiness to furnish clover timothy red top and blue grass seeds this season despite contrary reports.
A flurry of shopping notes fills the page with appeals for boots and Davis Engle & Davis hardware, Imperial plows, and farm tools. Local events include Mrs. Col Young’s entertainment and a birthday note for Father Stansil. a man finds 5524 near Sugar Creek. new hotel plans in Tampa. court town tidbits. and multiple marriage licenses listed.
The notice authorizes Harvey Reed to settle and receipt for all money paid on personal notes and on accounts of Weir & Brueck and Weir & Weir while the signer is absent. Debtors are urged to call at the Weir & Reed drug store to settle and save costs as books must be closed.
A Brecount drug store clerk reports a tarantula escaped after being captured from a banana grass chunk. The spider leaped from a cigar box into alcohol, then fled outside and vanished. The rest notes New Orleans Minstrels reception and L Stewart Insurance Agency promotions.
Judge T J Welle attended the Third Annual Banquet of the Indiana Beta Theta Pi at Bates House with Senator Joseph E McDonald presiding. Toasts were given by Will Cumback J L Yaryan A N Grant and W D Bynum. Mary A Strawn near Wash Shepherds lost her house and goods in a Saturday morning fire leaving her destitute. Uncle John Dever solicited donations to aid her.
The column records a mix of short updates from town on people and trades including Dan Turner visiting his uncle and Abell moving stock to Linton. It cites a July election reaction by the young America wing and questions drifting political and legal corruption urging public action through the ballot box.
The piece recalls the Oberlin zoology specimen and visits by Miss Anna Stanley and Miss Laura Shidler for dental work. It corrects a birthday misstatement about Mrs. Hatton and highlights Lord Gray’s presentation speech at the grand silver wedding of President Mudge and his wife, with thanks from citizens and students.
Farmers near sowing oats and a not very promising wheat outlook. Uncle John Knochs plans to buy a spotted horse for hoped success. Benjamin Sisson marries Mrs Singer in Greene County with best wishes for the aged couple. Temperance convention success with Rev Goodwin delivering strong talks. Burma native Sua Ah-brah to lecture on heathen manners at the Baptist church next Tuesday night admission 25 cents children 15 cents.
St Jacob residents discuss passing events and rumored engagements. Linconians to wear badges at school year end. Miss Hatton plans a summer visit north. Emma Palin resumes duties after an accident. Prof Melfenry teaches Calculus with annual first of April recitation.
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