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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1886
Page
3
A local shop hosts a sale featuring mufflers hats and caps with discounts and display items. Officials urge shoppers to attend for deals and new inventory. The event showcases a variety of headwear and winter accessories in the store.
Community updates include new furniture and jewelry arrivals, Christmas cards, lanterns, lace pins, and holiday goods at Kelly's and Sam White. Residents visit Terre Haute, Indianapolis, and Carlisle for business and family, while the Odd Fellows plan a December 23 supper and a New Year masquerade ball at the Opera House.
A local dealer advertises a sale of custom goods priced 25 to 60 percent below regular prices. The notice promises first class quality and urges savings by shopping west of the post office in a small frame building on the corner.
A brindle cow with suckling calf and a young white steer disappeared from a Clay county farm near Sullivan a few weeks ago. Reward offered for information. contact Union printing office or write to U Counson in Sullivan.
Willis Maple of Dugger Sullivan county and John Beden walked near Union tracks when two men accosted them and stole Maple’s nine dollars. Maple checked into Central Station Hotel for the night and planned to tell his tale on returning home.
Sheriff L H Willis and Detective W P OHaver nabbed Albert and Edward Mewer in Dugger after a two month flight from Jefferson County Illinois. Willis tracked them for days, aided by a surprise approach Tuesday night and Wednesday capture. The pair, about 22 and 25, await governor requisition to be sent to Illinois for arson trial. a $100 reward is offered.
Travel agents W B Hallsted and G J Grammer advertise the KE and THAR line offering three daily trains to western southern and southwestern points with connections at union depots. Rates claimed lowest among competing lines and maps folders and advertising material available on request. Contacts listed Evansville Indiana Sullivan Indiana.
Thomas Bucher visits Terre Haute as a protracted meeting starts at the M I church. D B Apple returns from Illinois to set up a barber shop. Rice McClain and wife of New Pittsburgh visit town. J C Chaney from Sullivan attends I O O F lodge. Wm Wells, now of Newport, Indiana, visits. Elder Thompson from Battle Creek Michigan to begin a protracted meeting at the Adventist church. GUADICE.
N. C. Thompson, noted as Merom's great literary figure, is traveling in South America in search of grand topics. C. R. Norris, Graysville's young man about town, has returned from an extended tour in the Indian Territory reporting a mash on a dusky. Ed Stone of the Narrows and captain of the Rose Dale passed through town last Wednesday on his way through.
Local notes report Ed Kelly unable to perform fiddle at a free show. A wedding is planned near Paxton Sunday. Poultry shipments, geese and turkeys arrive by wagon, and holiday goods market remains brisk. Several residents and visitors are mentioned including Dick Robbins who died last Sunday and Mike Evans who is recovering from illness.
Peyton travelled to Indianapolis and returned home Sunday night. Orie Christie went to Sullivan on legal business Monday. George Angell left last week for the western country. Prof. Nash visited here Saturday and Sunday. Miss Fannie Peyton spent Monday.
Commissioners' court adjourned after approving liquor licenses for Geo W Leach O J Dudley and Barney Folinskey in Sullivan Thos Jones in Buell City W R Davis in Dugger and Edward French at Merom Station refused for Robert Woodall for insufficient notice James Pigg and Jefferson Alumbaugh named Cass township constables Wm Joyce hired as county courthouse janitor for 200 James Wolfe county attorney term ended with no replacement Bank petitioned for tax refund remains with circuit court Road viewers appointed for Turman Cass Curry and Turman townships with several roads opened or reviewed including Aretha Burton James Wells A V Minick A W Springer and A H Weir cases
The Indiana and Illinois Southern Railroad Company will sell cash at auction at New Lebanon Station Sullivan County Indiana on February 16 1887 at 1 oclock p m. to the highest bidder described freight storage and advance charges owed. Articles include fence loom reel posts reels coils wire picket sharpener and 2000 pickets with marks W. C. Blackamen New Lebanon Ind. from C. Wight and Son Dayton Ohio. Notice dated December 10 1886. P H Blue G M.
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