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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1886
Page
3
The item lists multiple residents and visitors in Sullivan including Rev. Kaubb Carlisle W. E. Aydelotte and Miss Nellie Hoke with travels to Centerville Paxton Indiana and Ohio. Local businesses advertise coal seeds and furniture while church notices invite services and a Sunday address.
G E Treland announces two Friday night talks at the Christian church. July 30th the Story of the English Bible and August 1st Mohammed the False Prophet of the East. Lectures begin at 8 o clock with free admission and open invitation to all.
A large supply of tourist guides describes north and northwest summer resorts, hotel and boarding rates, and travel routes. Call 624 Main St in Terre Haute Indiana to procure copies from R. A. Campbell General Agent CC and BE 1 BR R.
R B McKissick a Dugger carpenter died after losing balance on a scaffold while repairing a coal shaft. He was born in Venango County Pennsylvania and lived in Dugger for years. He served as Justice of the Peace before resigning to take the post office. He was a Knight of Labor and expected to join Masonry soon. Funeral held in Worthington with Knights of Labor escort. Large crowd from Dugger Linton Worthington attended a special train procession. The community extends sympathy to the widow and family.
The town health is good with residents like Noah Scott feeble and Juo. F.Curry mending slowly. Capt. R. Clugage returns from the springs as locals note a rising number of watermelon wagons. Several townsfolk including Reuben Gilmore and Austin Sinclair are seen about town on Monday and Sunday.
Miss Fannie Payne was in Terre Haute on Monday. Miss Ida Wiley returned home from Terre Haute on Monday. The hay shed of Mr. Tom Crary burned Tuesday night, loss eight hundred dollars with no insurance. Misses Mattie Parish Lizzie Brunker and Minnie McClanahan will spend Sunday in the country. Mr Ryce MecClaine and wife leave Monday for French Lick Springs for four weeks. Died Mr Sam Wood July 19 1886 living half mile east of town after a long illness of spinal disease. GLADICE.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railway lists Springer Resorts such as Sailor Springs near Clay City Louis on the Springfield division Indian Springs near Shoals French Lick and West Baden Springs near Mitchell. The waters are promoted as cures for skin and kidney diseases dyspepsia scrofula alcoholic poison rheumatism and other ailments and touted as a brain and nerve tonic. Round trip tickets to these Springs are offered at low rates through railway offices and agents.
The narrator rides a large Ohio River steamboat from Pittsburgh toward Economy and Wheeling. He notes dense urban smokestacks, Mount Washington chimneys, and the Economites settlement with its doorless buildings and communal economy. Floating river villages and dramatic river scenery punctuate the journey.
Franck Z. Maguire notes in Harpers Weekly that Edison’s phonograph, once seen as a marvel, may be developed into a workable device. The Volta Laboratory in Washington aims to record and reproduce sound, and its inventors seek public introduction of their progress after years of work.
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