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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1885
Page
3
A long reader page notes visitors, trips and social events in Sullivan and vicinity. Mentions Mrs I P Draper visiting Indianapolis, Rev Mercer in Buell grove, J J Gravemier’s horse team, Miss Nannie Brooks in Terre Haute, and weddings births and birthdays. Also advertisements for Goodman's clothing and Marlow Robbins drugs.
Misses Jennie and Lily Beifman return home Wednesday with Mrs. Sol Goodman and her son David. Mrs. Goodman to travel from Washington to French Lick Springs.
Mose Wilkey heads a booming boot and shoe business after receiving a large invoice of samples. He advertises the latest, high quality boots and shoes at prices below their manufacturing costs.
The Curry's Prairie Baptist Association will hold Sunday school conventions in Shelburn from August 28 to 30, 1885. A full program will be presented and all Sunday school workers are invited to attend. F C Semelroth, Secretary.
Mrs. D. C. Young and her daughter Miss Luna Bierce departed Wednesday for Indian Springs to spend the hot season there. It is hoped the climate will bring them relief and benefit.
When you buy glasses of Dr Crowley they are the same as if made for you. He ensures glasses are fitted in proper frames because a good glass is useless if the frame misaligns the lenses and fails to place them correctly.
Ex Sheriff Berry and family along with John F. Curry and family, Sol Wolfe and family, and Dr Geo W Higbee and family picnicked on the historic Caledonia battlefield Thursday and fished from the nearby Busgeron waters.
Mr. P. B. Blue travels to Indianapolis for business on the Wabash bridge matter. The contract for the bridge likely will be let soon and a right will be built within three months from the letting.
A clipped note from the weekly news indicates the county crop outlook is positive with corn expected to yield well if weather stays favorable. Officials report continuing growth and average yields, signaling a strong agricultural year ahead.
A local bakery run by Mr. J. T. Reid markets large snow white loaves for five cents. The advertisement notes widows and orphans receive bread at this price, claiming even bondholders cannot do better, with claims the loaf feeds a large family and leftovers serve as a between-meal lunch.
Mr Geo Callahan of Hutsonville visited town on a Wednesday and filled the sanc tum table with two nut megs. He boasted of a Fourth of July watermelon as big as a flour barrel and promised by mid August two melons larger than that pledge._neighbors thank him for nutmegs and promises.
Capt White demonstrated a May fifth potato crop claiming over two hundred bushels per acre from four varieties. He asserts the best garden on the poor farm and aims to win potato premiums and many others at the county fair.
On Tuesday at the McCamilion farm Mr A H Bailey assisted with a haystacker when a derrick coupling failed and the structure dropped about thirty five feet. Geo Gott was carried down fainting but survived though badly hurt and expected to recover.
Mr P R Jenkins and a companion in a river fishing trip dropped his glasses in about fifteen feet of water Monday night. Early Tuesday he sent for replacements in Terre Haute. Tuesday night a second line brought up the missing glasses instead of fish, the pair recovered from the river.
Local report warns of a scamming pair calling at homes as lamp inspectors appointed by the Governor. They require women to show all lamps, issue a safety certificate, and charge ten cents per lamp. The scheme yields 25 to 50 dollars daily per swindler, yet few pursue arrest due to its small individual impact.
Mrs. Carrie L. Edgar, wife of Col. Young's son in Dayton, woke to a masked intruder in her room Friday night. He demanded money at dagger point, warned against screaming, and fled after taking cash. she recalls a small, finely dressed man with a musical voice.
A lively note from the Normal School details a week of rising attendance about sixty students. Prof Creager teaches imagination while Prof Marlow and Nesbit guide the staff and a repair of the High School room progresses. A playful item on a student named Itemizer ends with Becky Sharp.
The Sullivan County Teachers Institute will convene August 17 1885 in the Sullivan High School room for a two week program. It aims to improve teaching methods and school management with both home and visiting instructors, featuring leaders from state normal and universities and evening lectures.
In Sullivan County Indiana 1885 the administrator of Rhoda Bledsoe deceased petitions to sell her real estate to satisfy debts. The petition will be heard at the October term of the Sullivan Circuit Court beginning October 12 1885 at the courthouse in Sullivan. Clerk Thomas J. Mann presiding. Briggs and Hutta petitioners attorneys.
The Hartman Acme Caster Rolling Coulter fits wood or iron beams and any plow make. It adjusts via a horizontal slot for land side or centre draft and works with two or three horse plows, chilled or steel. Easy 3 to 5 minute attachment for unskilled hands with hard wearing journals and bearings. Cast steel blade is strong and durable. Factory orders accepted if not in dealer stock.
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