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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1885
Page
3
Auditor Crawley improves slowly as many residents travel and visit towns including Carlisle Vincennes and Terre Haute. Several observers, religious and musical events fill the week with gatherings at Buell grove and the Masonic hall. The O and M Grand Excursion on September 1st is promoted with reduced rates to Cincinnati and Louisville.
A string of visits and travel plans across Indiana and Illinois, including Misses Thurman, Harper, Steele, and Hill kin in Sullivan and Chicago, with trips to Kansas, Oxford Ohio and Cincinnati. Local business changes and railroad management updates accompany community updates and upcoming excursions on the O. M. line.
Mr John Griffin returns to Sullivan from Kansas and Marshall Illinois for a week or two with his aunt Mrs Geo Briggs before returning to Ross county Ohio. Miss Cora Gribbin and sister Miss Wall Hinson of Indianapolis visit Sullivan friends and relatives. Marriage licenses issued to Wm Anderson and Martha E Hopewell Lewis W Payne and Fannie J Ball Wm E Moss and Maggie M Richey Morton Farren and Rhoda Dennis Geo W Shields and Nancy A Frakes Samuel Wolfe and Sagan R Rains.
Hutsonville resident Mr Geo Callahan arrived in town last Saturday with melons. He offered a fine fruit to the Times office but after unhitching his horse Joe he drifted into dreams of an Indian tale and the horse ate the melon. The Times office still took a second pick.
Page one of the Times includes a short sketch of Methodism in Southern Indiana by Rev. M. S. Heavenridge and J. W. Hinkle. Also found are classified items for sale, bids on a new school building, a local tailor ad, church board decision on a pastor, and real estate notices.
To ensure comfort and proper alignment the frames must align the center of the glasses with the center of each eye. Dr Crowley offers a full assortment of sizes and shapes allowing correct fitting for any face shape.
Bloomfield will gain a telegraph line as the new railroad arrives. Shyer Bros. exhibit an old anvil claimed to have been used by George Washington at Mount Vernon in 1776. Courthouse contractors show pressed brick comparable to Louisville bricks, judged the better of the two.
Sheriff Willis and Deputy Hawkins arrested Geo Rickets about seven miles northeast of town Friday morning for stealing a watch in Owen county. Willis retrieved the watch in Shelbyville Illinois and the county jailer was to hand it to Owens County authorities. The town welcomed the new hook and ladder apparatus, praised by Wolfe Councilman McCammon, while Dear and others joked about athletic runners.
Mrs Dowing holds a large 1837 dated pen written volume by John Anderson, an educated former schoolteacher. The manuscript covers math history poetry and biography with proper credits and a dense, readable calligraphy. She plans to donate it to the Smithsonian and Indianapolis archives. Terre Haute Mail notes rising soda of saloons and lawyers plus a shift to steel nails threatening local jobs.
Miss Lou Smith of Sullivan visits Terre Haute guests, while Martin Ring is missing and presumed insane. Reports note proposed artesian wells and a bathhouse connected to a sanitarium with swimming pools, alongside local education notes and real estate transfers.
Southeastern Illinois and southwestern Indiana veterans will gather September 2 for a three day reunion at Hutsonville. Speakers will address the crowd each day with a highlight being a gun boat parade past the Forts of Vicksburg simulating Civil War combat under cannon fire ending with the forts captured and surrender of forces.
W T Howard attends to his J A Books on sick list for a week Geo Martin opens a barber shop in town L Baily returns home in Kansas O Haver Corbin manufacture superior tile Rains and warm weather increase corn growth Lizzie Edwards of Carlisle visits her parents Wes Mayfield debuts a new corner horn and excites onlookers Sister Watson leads a pro tracted meeting at the M E Church Nine members join the church Henry Hill boss clerk at O Havers plays with boys while customers wait Subscriber
John Fry on sick list. Isaac Page plans to go west this fall. J H Blevins buys a new buggy. James Shake went to Illinois last Friday. Jacob Page visited Pleasantville last Thursday. John Clark leads straw-stackers in the region. Herb Risley trips to Sandborn last Tuesday. Daniel Shake builds a cottage on Bunker Hill. William Wells travels to Sandborn last Saturday. J D Howard buys fine cattle from Jas Smith. J F Beck keeps ciphering, two and four. David Shake of Carlisle trips to Bunker Hill last week. Jeff Jackson adds to his house. Bro Houck the carpenter. W E Cowle of Carlisle threshes wheat and oats through South Haddon. Rain last Saturday changes looks of many faces and corn fields. Judge.
The watermelon trade is slow. Geo Pirtle is on the sick list. Crowder's hay press is nearly completed. Dr C F Briggs of Sullivan visited town last week. W H H Hill shipped stock here last week. Locals fished at Buzzard Pond early this week. Rev Heavenridge of Sullivan visited M S Foutch last Saturday. Jas Snyder returned from Kansas where he lived months. The M E Church recently organized started protracted meetings last Friday. Walls and Engle turned out large lots of goods and report good trade. Dr Peyton and family left to travel for health. Mark Wolfe of Terre Haute bought Paxton property and moved here. Jas Lamb rented his farm south of Paxton and moved to his wife’s farm east of Terre Haute. Wm Boon is his renter. Columbus McCammon moved to Boon’s former house west of town.
Mrs Rev Meir Johnson's mother visits and R V Railback visits family. M E Sunday school to hold a picnic in about two weeks. Mrs Dr Thralls and children return from St Mary's. Jasonville residents attend Quarterly meeting. Miss Jennie Houston of Edwardport Knox county visiting. Bethel cemetery appears better after mowing. Rev McK Johnson urged to stay another year. Jno C Patton leaves for Iowa as railroad fireman. Buchanan barn and contents destroyed by fire last Friday night. Rumor of a wife beating in Jackson township. Quarterly meeting Sunday well attended with sermons by Rev Hobbs. Morning grove services like a picnic. Picnicked last Thursday. Sunday schools present. music rendered. Young ladies show dresses, boys spend nickels and mustaches. elders recall early days. STRABOR.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railway announces its annual excursion from the Western and Springfield Divisions to Cincinnati and Louisville on September 1. Travelers going East can visit the Grand Southern Exposition at Louisville and Cincinnati attractions dubbed “The Paris of America.” Rate from Vincennes is $4.00. Train departs at 11 10 p.m.
The state fair is described as the best agricultural exhibition in the U S with claims supported by facts. Management seeks more room, possibly banning vehicles during the fair to better display exhibits. Railroads promise favorable rates and national figures may attend the event.
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