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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1886
Page
3
Sullivan columns record visits by Dr. Denison and Mrs. Pierce, weddings, births, and travel to Terre Haute and Indianapolis. Court house improvements, new roofs, tiled yard, and a bridge project are noted along with shop sales and local church services.
Delayed report lists residents on sick list and at home repairs. Visits include Mrs Bayles from Pimento and Dan Welch from Pimento who came last Sunday. A Sunday school picnic is planned for the 22nd inst at this place. Railsback and Boatright from Sullivan were in town on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Payne plan a trip to Brazil to visit son H C Payne. A large attendance from locals at a Sullivan celebration reports a good time.
Albert Hopewell reports hog losses from cholera while Miss E Bottorff visits relatives near Graysville. Elder Engle met with the brethren at Corinth on the 4th. Wm Brackall plans a boot and shoe store at Sullivan soon. William Pitzer improves roads in district 8. Wheat harvests are good and corn thrives in hot moist weather. Mrs Daugherty and family of Paxton visit neighbors. Turman may win a second term as trustee.
Rev Hawes visits the village while S S Yager and others appear on sick lists. Beech Grove visitors gather at Nathan Weiss as a thunderstorm interrupts. The Concord Sabbath school schedules an ice cream supper for Saturday July 24. Residents urge action on midnight nuisance and dog noise with possible firearm concerns.
List of letters awaiting pickup including Jno Creager J M Cummins George A Claggett W S Dickey Chas Greshem D C Hubbs J C Neale J W Patten Henry Pifer and Mrs Melvina Smith. If not claimed within thirty days they will be sent to the Dead-letter office.
Locomotive Engineers on the O. and M. Railway announce the Eighth Annual Picnic at Price Hill Cincinnati on July 30. Special trains will run from Vincennes Jeffersonville Lawrenceburg Madison and intermediate stations at reduced rates. Posters and O. M. Agents provide rates and schedules.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railway runs a special Excursion Train to St Louis on Wednesday July 21 leaving Vincennes at 6 30 a m arriving at noon and departing for return at 7 45 p m Tickets valid for return on the St Louis train leaving at 6 25 a m the next day with a round trip fare from Vincennes of 1 75 Inquiries via advertisements or O M agents
The Sunday school reunion will be held in Jas B Manns grove on the last Saturday in August 1886. Exercises begin at 10 AM with school delegations arriving the day before to police and prepare the grounds by 8 AM. Refreshment stands arranged through Warren Watson, treasurer T K Cushman president C B Eno secretary.
A local advertisement from Troll and Burks proclaims boots shoes and slippers offered at the lowest prices. The note appears in a compact portion of the page as a promotional line about footwear.
Atlantic City pages describe the board walk throng, bathing costumes with black stockings and corsets, seaside photos for twenty five cents, and the sand box hot with spooning. The piece notes nine churches, 130 saloons, and 700 boarding houses as a growing resort from duck hunting to a year round destination.
Paul H. Hayne, famed southern poet, died after a sudden brain blood clot. Born in Charleston in 1830, he lived at Copse Hill near Augusta, wrote nature and war poems, served on General Pickens staff, and endured family losses before retirement to Pine Barrens where he produced his best work.
The First Baptist church of Sullivan Indiana announces a Chicago excursion for Saturday July 17 1886. Round trip fares 6.00 from Vincennes and points north on the E T H R R and 6.00 from Worthington and north on the BE I R R. Tickets good to return within ten days. Arrangements with first class Chicago hotels for low rates with visits to city sights. Tickets at all stations along the line. Sullivan June 22 1886. The notice also mentions an insurance claim.
May 15, 1986 notice invites residents to recommend THE SULLIVAN TILES to neighbors. The brief item emphasizes community outreach and local engagement.
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