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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1886
Page
3
Readers are urged to send word for local news and visitors. Announcements detail sales at Bauer's Green Seal flour, Red Schoolhouse shoes, and Famous Cheap Store. Multiple entries cover travel, schooling, social calls, and business trips across Sullivan and nearby towns, with Emery Hartzell selling meat and Jno Chaney offering private loans.
Mr. John Buff of Merom spent Monday in Sullivan with his son Judge Buff and Tuesday morning went to Terre Haute to visit his son N. G. Buff.
Mrs Malinda McBride visiting Sullivan to see friends after moving to Vincennes with her daughter Mrs Mattie Love a few weeks ago.
A H Bailey, hay dealer, will pay the highest cash price for hay. Press and scales are near the railroad junction. he will buy hay delivered at scales or in stack to suit seller.
Mrs. W G Young offers to sell the recently purchased Broad street property in good repair at a very low figure. Enquire of John C Chaney about the deal.
Local ad notes Tom Whitman sells the New Sensation stove at a lower price than rivals. Princeton promotes extensive brick pavement work already done and planned to cover all streets. Augusta Folske, Carlisle outrage witness, visits town with trial set for Thursday next week, offering juror observations. Gratitude expressed for New Year gifts from Gravemier and Eslinger families.
J. P. Diehl declares a boot and shoe shop is open in the first room west of the new Town Hall and promises first class work at short notice while seeking local patronage. River Valley real estate and certificates of purchase offered for sale by Rieas and Berry in Sullivan Indiana. Drainage projects touted with tile from Wallis and Engle and Davis Engle Davis. Circuit Court in session with Judge Buff, Sheriff Willis, and officials in attendance. marriage licenses issued to six couples. Protracted Christian meeting led by Prof. W. F. Black draws local crowds despite poor roads.
Prof. Black outlines nightly subjects for a continuing Times meeting. Friday night titled The Moral Man. Saturday night The Judgment. Sunday morning The Sacred Import of the Christian Name and Life. Sunday night The Millennial Reign of Christ. G. E. Treland.
Mrs Louisa Siner wife of B F Siner died at E A Thurman residence last Friday after a weeks illness. She was forty four years old and had been an invalid for twenty years. She lived in Shelburn and Worthington before moving to Sullivan to visit her daughter. The funeral was held Sunday morning conducted by Rev Meteer Union.
Farmers and residents gathered at the Town Hall on January 2, 86, with John Giles chairing. Speakers included C P Riggs Murray Briggs and others. The group urged representatives to push for a spring workable road tax law and adjourned for a Feb first Saturday meeting inviting citizens from all townships.
On New Year’s Eve the Sullivan Christian church held a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ireland. Brethren and sisters filled the house, bringing no gifts but arriving with a two horse wagon symbolizing goodwill. Prof. W. F. Black presented the token, and Ireland thanked the church for its ongoing kindness and fellowship.
A meeting at district No. 8 schoolhouse on December 23 discussed a bill to grant pensions to Union soldiers and sailors serving 60 days between 1861 and 1865. A committee was named to gather names, a $17 subscription fund was raised, and supporters warned lawmakers against inaction. W McK Johnson presided with KR Thralis secretary.
The speaker extols Masonry as a universal, ancient, and benevolent order guiding charity, truth, and brotherly love. He claims secrecy aids safety, praises equality before the lodge, and recalls temple building symbolism, past dedications, and moral duties for members and families.
The town features S. 8. Yeager and Elmer Ransford in fur trading. Winfield McCrory from Illinois visits Monday. Fox hunting on the Island delights local lads. Wesley Warner and Robert Van Horn offer clover seed for sale. Will Yeager returns to Fairbanks township school. E K Pugh seeks a good clearing hand north of town. Mrs. Coleman Drake near Kingsley Chapel dies January 3. Jesse Ransford touts Thornberg berries as sweetest. Alex Ransford and Will Norris join Sisters of Charity at Beach Grove.
The report lists local happenings around Pittsburg including marriages and visits. Notable items mention the burial of Mrs. John Shepherd, Miss Lydia North returning from Terre Haute, Dr. A. F. Marshall of Jasonville visiting, and Squire Frakes court over a support suit with a ten dollar fine. Other notes cover protracted meetings at Bethel, a large New Year dinner at W. K. McGrew’s, and local property dealings by Dr. R. T. Tharlls and A. P. Banks.
An advertorial claim touts St Jacobs Oil and Red Star Cough Cure as cures for pneumonia. It presents a sensational medical remedy without scientific backing.
In Sullivan County Indiana the Sullivan Circuit Court notes the case John N. Paddock v Stephen Kirkham. Kirkham, a non resident, must answer by March term beginning March 8 1886 or risk hearing in absentia. filed January 9 1886 by Clerk Thomas J Mann.
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