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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1885
Page
3
Local notices record visitors, travels, and returns. Business ads promote Goodman's summer goods Parks and Marlow Robbins while Nelse Wilkey buys surplus produce and pays top prices for hides eggs and poultry. Numerous visits by residents to Terre Haute Vincennes Bloomfield and Carlisle appear with brief social and service notices.
Mr John M Douthit a prominent Jefferson township farmer and his daughters Victoria and Gracie were in town last Saturday The daughters attended the Institute and accompanied their father on the trip.
Thos. J. Smedley, one of Jefferson township’s oldest residents, visited Sullivan this week as Commissioners’ Court began a new term. The piece notes local movements, upcoming court sessions, marriages, insurance ads, hay harvest talk, and several personal notices including injuries and property losses.
Gospel address at night with cordial welcome to all. Sunday school at 9 15 a m. Address to children by request in Scott s school house at 8 in the afternoon. G E Ireland.
Dr J N Young of Carlisle went to Sullivan on Tuesday to consult with Dr Crowder and Dr Higbee regarding the serious illness of Rev Joseph W Wolfe.
Davis, Engle & Davis offer the Porter hay carrier as a proven implement sold in thousands of units per year. It is the only carrier compatible with the Porter singletree sling at no extra cost.
An old frame building five doors west of the post office offers a vast stock of boots and shoes from Nelse Wilkey. The prices will astonish you with no shoddy goods and remarkably low prices.
An advertisement extols Stewart's Sons life policy for farmers with seven day accident and death benefits. It urges readers to inspect Mose Wilkey's boot shop in a frame building five doors west of the post office and to avoid buying before comparing prices.
New Lebanon June 2 1885 Easter Times reports Charles Abercrombie of Gill township has consented to run for County Commissioner second district. The notice urges voters to support his candidacy and notes his qualifications and anticipated credit to the county. Decoration Day observed in Sullivan with G A R commemoration and speeches by Simpson Lowe and Geo Callahan. Hamilton cultivator promoted with Davis Engle Davis ads highlighting tongue less design and Coulters improving soil work and loader innovations. Fourth Annual Sullivan High School commencement held at Opera House with speeches by Park Jenkins Marlow Coulson Lewis and impressions and gifts to graduates.
Health conditions are sound in the vicinity and corn crops look immense. A quarterly meeting at Kingsly Chapel is scheduled for next Sabbath. The steamer Ida Lee runs regular trips past the Narrows every Monday. Wheat prospects are favorable and Mr. John Ridgeway has a field yielding about forty bushels per acre. WABASH BILL.
The Sullivan county Township Trustees met in the Auditor's office to choose a county superintendent to succeed Prof. J A Marlow. After two ballots, Marlow was elected by a majority. A note praises Marlow’s ten years of service and public approval. Also advertised is Mose Wilkey’s sale of boots, shoes, clothing, and hats at wholesale prices with large discounts.
The Sentinel office has shifted to Harvey Reed with access available daily and Sunday mornings from nine to ten-thirty. The Sunday edition grows to eighteen pages and remains a nonpartisan family paper. Readers can place orders with Reed for Hugh Conway's last story A Family Affair and receive last Sunday’s issue free to complete the story.
The court summons many townsfolk, laborers clean the burned district, and a new fence appears at Dr Coffman s corner. Local scenes include a progressive Marchino, visits from Greene and Crawford counties, town crowds at decoration services, and eloquent remarks by Mr Lowe of Bedford. Floral offerings at the cemetery symbolize enduring memories.
Chas. Davis was in our burg on the Sabbath. A general program for the picnic will soon appear. Sim Yager has a duck pond in front of his residence. James Bland moves today to the suburbs. Mrs. Ernest and children of Fairbanks visit. New song books arrived and the choir will meet for the 4th of July. Showers make farm work favorable but continued rain may worsen conditions. Rev. Hawes preached Mrs. Burks funeral last Sunday with Sullivan relatives present. Fourth Quarterly meeting at Kingsley Chapel June 6 and 7 with Rev. Hobbs lecturing Friday and Saturday. Quarterly conference Saturday afternoon. Literary meeting opened by the president elect. duties unfinished, debate began. C. Sg. Phillips opened with strong points. Next Saturday's question: Washington did more for independence than La Fayette. Nemo.
Misses Lou Mackey and Anna Durbin announce they are now located in Mrs. Adylott's old stand in Carlisle and offer cutting fitting and fashionable dressmaking. They solicit the patronage of all needing work and invite visitors to call when in town.
The E. and T. H. R. R. will begin selling Sunday Excursion Tickets to all main line points on Sunday May 17 1885 at 2 cents per mile. Gi J Grammer G P A.
The sheriff of Sullivan County Indiana will on June 27 1885 at the court house door sell rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years for several described parcels totaling about 135 acres more or less. The sale includes multiple tracts in townships six north range nine ten and includes specific fractions and measurements. If the lands fail to realize the debt the entire judgment plus interest and costs may be sold free from valuation or appraisement laws. Maple and Rallsback Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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