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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1886
Page
3
Community notes list visits, clerks, sales, and local happenings from Sullivan Indiana. Residents travel, shop, marry licenses issued, churches and schools schedule events, and prominent locals appear in society notices and ads.
The marriage of William Dant of Vincennes to Katie Dudley of Sullivan occurred at the Cathedral with Rev. Father Pathieu officiating. The bride is known in Sullivan and the groom is praised as a fine young man. They will host a reception at the groom’s parents in Freelandsville, Igd.
High water in the Wabash makes the I. and I. 8. excursion planned for Sunday May 23 impossible. Management will announce a new excursion date as conditions of the river and weather permit.
I am prepared to loan money with the following terms: under $1,000 at 7 percent. from $1,000 to $2,000 at 6 1/4 percent. over $2,000 at 6 percent. Cons. E Barrett.
Partial OCR reads like a price list with fractions and cent amounts for lawns and brown muslin. Entries show 5 cent lawns, 614 and 437 cents, 8s cent, plus 4 cent brown muslin and 814 cents noted as heavy brown muslin.
Mr Wm Willis and family from Gill visited nearby last Sunday. Miss Myrtie Corner of Sullivan visited Miss Hattie Ayers early this week. John T McKinney a Gill merchant is accused of fraud by selling spanish needle weeds as tomato plants and planting them on his lot. The matter became public via a whispered tip.
The ladies church group advertises a strawberry and ice cream festival to be held next Thursday evening May 27 at Med Wilson's hall housed over the skating rink. Attendees are urged to a large turnout.
The following names remain unclaimed and will go to the Dead-letter office if not called for within thirty days: Jas T Allen Joe J Bragdon Titus Davis Wm Bens J W Elder W G Grant Elmer Hanah James Pyne Mary Story Harvey C Tipton Eva York Pleasant Moore. J Ernest Sullivan Ind May 17 1886.
Guides describe summer resorts, hotel and boarding house rates, routes, and fares. Copies available from R. A. Campbell, General Agent, at 624 Main St., Terre Haute, Indiana.
Members of Sullivan Lodge No. 147 I C O F Navillus Encampment and Uniform Cavaliers of Sullivan Canton are requested to meet Friday evening May 21 1886 at 7 o clock to arrange participation in the Decoration Day parade and exercises and to drill in new military tactics of the Order by order of John C Chaney Commander.
A local seller advertises a $3,000 stock of extra fine clothing priced at cost. The seller Mose Wilkey urges readers to visit the small frame building west of the post office to shop before the stock moves quickly.
Report details days in service four travel 110 miles visited 985 families 1825 without a Bible 275 supplied 27 tracts distributed 75 Bible sales 565 received for Bibles 279.01 in donations 49.41 given away cost 184.05 freight 18.10 traveling expenses 38.55
The Housekeeper in Minneapolis was burned out for the second time in six years on April 12, destroying part of its subscription list. Several ladies employed barely escaped with their lives. Readers missing the May issue should write to the publishers with full address and subscription details to have the May number forwarded and their name restored.
A Z Foster, a familiar Terre Haute dry goods and carpet figure from Sullivan County, opens a three story furniture showroom at 424 Main Street. The store offers bed room sets priced 25 to 148 dollars parlor sets 37.50 to 150 dollars book cases 15 to 75 dollars sideboards 15 to 100 dollars and chairs from 0.75 to 25 dollars. Visitors are invited to spend an hour browsing this new shop.
The carpenter team found about $80 worth of goods moved from upstairs of Hardy McClanahan’s house, sold to Silvester Baldridge. The house had been unoccupied before Baldridge purchased it, and investigators suspect an incendiary placed items there earlier. Peter Postal comments on the lack of sense and possible motive.
The article reviews the coming season in yachting highlighting Britain’s cutter Galatea under Lieut. Henn as a challenger to Americans. It notes New York Yacht Club contenders Atlantic and Mayflower, Puritan’s past triumph, and plans to improve American designs to defend the Cup.
Dr Thrail builds a handsome barn and Mary Hinkle grows in painting skill while Eva Hughes visits family. W H Sills gets a pension heading toward Cleveland. John T Beasley campaigns in Jackson as Pittsburg plans a summer normal by Railsback and Boatright. Local roads improve and hucksters resume weekly returns.
Gist and accommodating P M has placed in his store a handsome prescription case. T P Hughes moved his saw mill to Alain Cave for lumber sawing contracts for the new railroad. Robi Barnett returned from Tennessee and Arkansas to help his brother John assess the township. Decoration Day will be observed under G A R auspices. Prayer meetings are held nightly by local churches and families. Farmers begin planting corn with favorable weather. No 10 area receives clergy attention with three divines preaching regularly. STRABOR.
Description of Mr Goulds country residence at Irvington once owned by George Dawson Merritt. Gothic mansion set 3 000 feet from the Hudson with twenty rooms, art gallery, 95 acre lawn, 510 acre estate, extensive hothouse complex valued at 250 000, and monthly taxes of 250. Mangold the long time steward earns 2000 yearly.
Notice announces Spencer McGrew a male resident over 21 will apply to Sullivan County Commissioners at the June 1886 session for a one year license to sell and allow on premises spiritous vinous malt and other intoxicants in quantities under a quart with on site drinking. Premises described as a 20 by 44 foot frame building on lot 32 Shelburn. Bloomfield Railroad Co stockholders meeting set for July 11 1886 in Sullivan Indiana to ratify consolidation with Indiana and Mays Southern Railroad and related bond mortgage actions.
Tornado and flood devastation sweep Ohio and Missouri towns amid a nationwide storm. Xenia suffers twenty six deaths and many missing. Kansas City endures collapsed school wing, ruined courthouse, and a destroyed Missouri River bridge as telegraph and railroad lines fall.
Multiple Democratic filings announce candidacies for State Senator Prosecutor and Prosecuting Attorney in Sullivan and Greene counties subject to the Democratic convention. Real estate firm Riccs Berry offers sale of Life Insurance Co assets and purchase certificates in Sullivan Indiana.
J. T. H. Miller promotes stylish ready made and custom clothing at 522 Main. He invites customers to visit for quality garments and expert tailoring.
In this ad style line a retailer promotes a single low price for all customers inviting readers to visit and inquire for details. The fragment emphasizes a uniform discount strategy and customer appeal.
Local shop notes the largest millinery stock in Sullivan and Sullivan county offering prices to fit every shopper. The message highlights broad availability and accessibility to fashionable hats and related headwear for women.
Shop offers hats and bonnets in the latest styles from New York Chicago Indianapolis and Cincinnati. It stocks novelties in piece goods ribbons and trim mings and features a large line of children's lace caps and bonnets.
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