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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1886
Page
3
Sullivan Times column lists dozens of bargains and notices from Troll & Burks Parks store including shoes slippers and dress goods at reduced prices during August. Also reports visitors travels weather events and a fire near town with community updates and upcoming church services.
The Ohio and Mississippi railway announces an Aug 31 excursion to Cincinnati and Louisville with a through sleeping car and passenger coaches. Leaves Vincennes at 11 10 p m and arrives in time for the Exposition parade. Round trip fare from Vincennes is 4 dollars, tickets valid six days.
Several horses train at the fair grounds with morning driving attracting many onlookers. Hosea Hawkins loses ground as Prof Bass and Mc Fadden with the Mason horse challenge his lead. Speculation grows whether Hosea will surge ahead in the purse race while foreign horses may join the contests. The running race is described as the most exciting event.
Special Niagara Falls excursion departs Evansville on Tuesday August 24 at 8 am arriving Niagara Falls Wednesday around 10 am. Sullivan round trip price 6 50 with two chair cars from Evansville. Special chairs cost 2 00 round trip. Sleeping car rates to be announced. Tickets on sale Monday August 16 with sales contact G J Grammer Evansville Ind.
Jimmie Royce of Terre Haute skipped Dr. Durhams last Friday. Arthur Weir of Sullivan visited for supper last Saturday. Tompy Dobbs attended the ice cream supper at Providence and danced afterward at Corncob. Miss Fannie Mason won a cake for best looking girl and had previously won the prize two years prior. The Osborn Pinkston ice cream supper followed Ben Butler’s visit. Miss Clara Smith plans a lengthy visit to New Albany, leaving Graysville today.
The article reports steady railroad progress near Farmersburg and a busy town scene with visits, picnics, church talks, and upcoming camp meeting. It notes the Bennett & Reed drug store move to Paxton, local visitors from Shelburn Indianapolis Crawfordsville Pimento Valpin Clay City and Virginia born Sallie Moody's death.
The burial plot for Samuel J. Tilden at New Lebanon in Columbia County, New York, is described as a circular design with central graves for his parents and a tall marble urn. The elderly statesman, aged 72, lay in a snow white catafalque as President Cleveland and cabinet members attended his funeral.
The following names remain unclaimed at the Postoffice and will be sent to the Dead-letter office if not claimed within thirty days Amanda Arnett Nancy Barnes Burk and Paul Flora Boles John Hamlen Cora Hunt Charney Overstreet J J McMahan Chas Pigg Thomas Skinner Linthy Smith Ellen Smith R F Weens Ernest Sullivan August 1886 Troll Barks closes out sale August no profit stated.
Gen Rogers of Buffalo appears likely to succeed S P Hounds as public printer. The role oversees about 2 500 employees and over 2 000 000 dollars yearly in printing and binding government publications.
Samuel H. Draper, a male resident of Indiana over 21, seeks a Sullivan County license to sell intoxicating liquors by the drink in a two story brick building at No. 6 Washington Street Sullivan. The application targets the county board meeting starting September 1886 for one year with on premises consumption.
Twenty one year old Almon C Griffin applies in 1886 for a license to sell spiritous and vinous liquors on the premises described as the first floor of a two story frame building at the Ledgerwood and Harrison streets corner in Carlisle Sullivan County Indiana. The lot description runs 64 feet along Ledgerwood street and 80 feet along Harrison street with the site at the south corner of lot 48. Griffin signs August 1 1886.
Edward S. Crick files suit against Mary C. Crick a non resident for divorce in Sullivan County Indiana. Notice of pendency warns appearance by first day of October term 1884 with failure resulting in default. Clerk Thomas J. Mann signs and seals the notice.
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