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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1886
Page
3
Sullivan Illinois community notes list dozens of short visits and social calls, shipments of cattle and coal, a real estate tour, church services, and local business promotions. Residents from Terre Haute to Indianapolis travel, shop, and gather for Fourth of July events, while Troll & Burks push aggressive shoe sales.
M O Routh known as the hat hero appears in town. Distemper hits Merom horses with fatalities. Charles Hunt returns from Green Castle for vacation visiting Merom. Prof. Fairfield with Clara Huston and mother travels to Ohio. Mrs N G Buff of Tampa leaves Merom for the South. Miss Tusia Buff of class of 88 to give elocution readings in Ils. Merom’s Aesculapian youths Boone and Bobo plan to hang out shingles. A U S Army officer visited the Bluff stirring feminine interest. Uncle Dave Hubbs reports success selling the Life of Grant. Robt Thornton dies June 30 1886. Masons and G A R conduct rites. Sunday draws fifteen hundred visitors. locals condemn the meeting and crowd behavior. Sporting men and women attend, candy stands near preachers’ platform. a note on derisive jeers toward certain attendees.
The First Baptist church of Sullivan Indiana announces a season excursion to Chicago on Saturday July 17 1886. Round trip fares are 6.00 from Vincennes and points north on the E T H R and 6.00 from Worthington and north on the E I R R. Baggage checked tickets valid for return on any regular train within ten days full hotel arrangements and visits to Chicago landmarks included tickets available at all stations along the E T H R from Evansville and the E I R R from Worthington. Let everybody go.
About twelve to fifteen thousand people joined Sullivan's Fourth of July festivities centered on a Firemen’s parade at 9:30 am. A forenoon trotting race, afternoon bicycle and potato rack events, and a well attended musical program entertained a packed grounds. Mrs Ella Griffin’s class delivered a lively set of performances, and local civic pride highlighted the day with good order, minimal drinking, and about one hundred dollars net for the Firemen after expenses.
Miss Ida Crapo visited home last Sunday while Uncle Woodson Burks and wife traveled to Praireton last Monday. Miss Cora Thixton of Fairbanks spent part of last week in town. Nemo on the sick list last week shortened this issue. Rev. Mercer preached on training children last Sunday. Fairbanks men passed through town en route to Merom. Bro Straber sends best wishes and is urged to publish more often. Miss Francis Mason, in Terre Haute for a year, returned to Dr. Durham's where she will stay. Miss Kittie Cushman and Alpha Parsons show fine collections of house plants each morning. Nemo.
The town buzzed with visits and gatherings as families from Emmi gol to Parke county joined relatives and friends. Festivities featured a large parade by the Fire Company and remarks by local leaders while heat kept many from celebrating fully.
A local carriage shop offers repair and painting of buggies and carriages with a guarantee of top labor at the lowest cost. The shop sits one door west of South and Farley’s blacksmith shop.
Congress and New York plan a granite gneiss memorial at Newburg on the Hudson to mark the Revolution’s closing. The structure features a Washington statue by O Donvan, a belvedere, thirteen columns, bronze plaques, future bronzes, and planned medallions. The secretary of war will supervise construction with views of West Point and the river from the site.
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