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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1885
Page
3
Local items list visits, business ads, auctions and social news in Sullivan. Residents like Nelse Wilkey promote produce sales and groceries while others travel to Terre Haute and Carlisle. Church services, school closings, and market notices appear beside ads for clothing, drugs, and parlors.
The 1885 hay harvest is near. Davis Engle & Davis offer Porter hay carriers and urge farmers to prepare. Promotes low prices by Nelse Wilkey and condemns combinations among grocers. Includes notices of local travel, memorial services, insurance, and sales of boots and shoes.
Miss Ella Griffin entertained the Presbyterian choir on a Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Emma Adams a Sullivan schools teacher who leaves for Rockville today and will not return as teacher. Her place will be hard to fill given her satisfactory service.
Mr T J Mann returned from Illinois and praised a thoroughbred Short horn bull named Barnard owned by he and Dr. Durham of Graysville who are joint stock dealers investing on a large scale. Barnard is described as the finest animal of its kind ever brought to Sullivan county.
A large display of sample boots and shoes at the former Nelse Wilkey site five doors west of the post office promises low prices and top quality. The ad urges readers to visit the small corner frame building and compare prices, claiming items are first-rate with no shoddy.
Decoration Services honor fallen heroes to be held May 30 1885 at the north side of Court House at 2 p m. Businesses asked to close from 2 to 4 p m. June circuit court term begins Monday next with listed petit jurors. Also notes on Hamilton cultivator sales and multiple obituaries including Mrs Letitia Knotts and Mrs Francis Orr with funeral details.
The ER. & T. H. BR. BR. will commence the sale of Sunday Excursion Tickets to all main line points on Sunday May 17 1885 at 2 cents per file. GJ. GRAMMER GP A.
Dressmaking firm announces relocation to Mrs. Adylott's former stand in Carlisle and nearby areas. They offer cutting fitting and fashionable dressmaking services and urge ladies to call in town for work.
Beginning May 15 the Brewer & Burton firm will close out their entire stock of hardware stoves tinware furniture farm implements wagons and more with special bargains. They will sell daily until exhausted and offer a large store room four residences and full settlement of notes or accounts. Brewer goes to his farm and Burton to Antelope.
P H Blue receiver of the Lack Narrow Gauge outlines plans to rebuild the Wabash bridge on heavy stone piers and convert the line to standard gauge. The repair effort aims to modernize the railroad, boost regional development, and intensify work for a timely finish, benefiting Sullivan and surrounding communities.
Sullivan's First Baptist Church after repairs will host services on Sunday June 14 1885 with attending ministers from abroad including Dr A B Miller Little Rock Rev Norman Carr Rev J W Clark Rev Elgin S M Stimson D D Rev J M Stalker Rev J H Butler Rev J I Wheeler and others. Albert Baily chairs the committee and D B Miller serves as pastor seeking broad invitations.
Sullivan County residents voted in a new slate of officers at the Court House on May 28. Officers include President C P Riggs, Vice President Thos Bland, Secretary C M Stewart, and Treasurer Jacob Bulman. A meeting is set for May 30 at 2 PM to choose a time and place for the fair.
Mose Wilkey has bought the largest lot of sample boots and shoes ever brought to Sullivan from the largest house in the west. These goods, with a job lot of clothing and hats, are offered at wholesale prices and claim savings of 40 to 70 percent.
A Hallet and Davis piano once costing seven hundred fifty dollars is advertised as worth more than any new five hundred dollar instrument and to be sold cheaply. Noted musicians praise the piano for tone evenness and sustaining power. Franz Liszt expresses a wish for European access to the instrument. Inquiries to the office for details.
Last Sunday's rain revived garden vegetables while white goods fashion rises amid spring trends. Esq. Ruben Gilmore of Jefferson visited town on business. Sullivan grocers employ courteous delivery clerks. Nightly street crowds worry locals about possible mischief. The Masonic Hall at the corner resembles old central American ruins. Wool shipments flood town, selling cheaper. T K Sherman & Son dominate wool deals from the Southside warehouse.
Bill Harper hints at Ben knowing the tale as discussions bloom about manufacturing boosts in Sullivan. Reports note race track activity, a nail factory restart, and local improvements to homes and churches amid regular visits by Geo. Callahan and others, with varied street life and a charity-tinged anecdote.
Thos J Mann was in town Saturday. Thos Carrithers went to Sullivan last week. Telephone lines were erected at Big Springs. Dr Mart Mosier a skilled veterinary surgeon operated on two horses and a cow. Ed Carruthers brightened the corner with paint. Miss Pinty of Clark County Ill will return home after a visit with Mrs Kelly. Mrs Wm Pitser died after a brief illness leaving husband and seven children. Providence youngsters held a birthday party for Stella Burnett at R K Houpt. Graysville churches plan a grand Fourth of July celebration with Rev Heavenridge and Rev Phillips speaking. A Graysville literary society elected officers Alexander Ransford president William Norris vice president Emma Yager secretary Nannie Canary corresponding secretary Kittie Cushman editor. Debate on water vs fire chosen as first topic. Nemo.
Geо S Carpenter transfers to M Ttche nor eight acres under warranty. Nelson T Siner sells CT Siner forty acres for 2000. J B Patten conveys to Anna C Snyder one lot under warranty. Lucinda Fitzgerald to Mattie Wiley one lot warranty. T P Hughes to IC Chaney Farmersburg. EWN McClanahan to S R McClanahan two lots warranty 250. Turman Thos Mann to JL Durham undivided half in 120 acres.
Historical price list shows hay eight dollars per ton delivered and a wheat price of ninety five cents per bushel. Flour at five fifty per barrel. Livestock quotes include beef cattle three to four cents per pound fat, hogs thirty one or three, sheep twenty four to three cents, and cattle stock three cents. Eggs ten cents a dozen and poultry prices for hens seventy five cents per pound, turkeys eight cents, ducks two fifty per dozen, geese four eighty per dozen.
Chicago market report shows higher May wheat at 863/88 and July at 8177 9174, with May grain at 4854.2483¢e and May lard 36.75 to June 6.774. Cattle prices steady with choice steers 6.62 to 6.85, hogs trimmed around 4.20 to 4.40, dairy prices for creamery and dairy products noted with mixed ranges.
Fragmentary text lists months and dollar figures with garbled terms and likely market or commodity indicators. No coherent event or entities to identify. unable to extract a definite headline or concrete summary from the irregular OCR fragment.
Fragmentary prices and firm figures from Milwaukee market notes for May and June 1940. Entries mention Conan-Firm at 492 for No. 2, Watts-Firm No. 2 White at 743e Rye-Dull and Bantuy-Higher at 57 for No. with unclear context.
A compact market wire notes futures and spot prices across grains livestock and provisions. Highlights include oats weak at 39e and rye dull at 14ce, lard firm at 6.70, bacon around 6.50 to 6.90, and flour and pork futures showing mixed gains and declines in May June and July contracts.
Fragmentary OCR text lists mixed numbers and names with scattered months May June and places like Conn. The readable items do not form a coherent event or outcome to summarize into a concrete record.
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