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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1886
Page
3
Sullivan brief highlights include store ads for Troll & Burks and Crawley firms, furniture and boots sales, new deliveries of rubber boots, arctics, and clothing. multiple visits by locals to Terre Haute, Shelburn, and Vincennes. a Christmas goods drive by The Chicago Trading Co.. church notices at M. E. and Christian churches. a stand pipe accident in Vincennes with two hurt workers recovering. marriage licenses issued and local social events noted.
The News reports stockholders of Equitable Telephone favor shifting funds to exploration for coal oil or natural gas with a meeting planned. If coal is found, rich stores lie underneath Vincennes. if not coal then natural gas or oil.
The court affirms the circuit court ruling for Treasurer Davis. It holds that delinquent 1868 taxes remain a valid charge on the appellant’s property despite removals and transfers to insolvent records, and may be collected by levy on personal property at any time under statute. A replevin case ends once property is seized for tax.
Having completed arrangements I offer abstracts of title to all parties at one half the former price and with money at the lowest interest rate W C Barrety
Judge Mack instructs Vigo county grand jurors to investigate arson and liquor sales to drunks, enforce penalties, curb pistol carrying and billiard-table loitering, and report on the county poor house. The letter from OLD SNUB recounts travel observations from New Pittsburg to Farmersburg with praise for workers, stores and housing while noting leadership figures like John Wiley and Mr. McClanahan.
The text chronicles local activity as builders rush to finish year work, a traveling Illinois man eyeing a one dollar a day hotel, and curious incidents including a steer chasing Will Smith near Thanksgiving. It notes residents like Ruth sewing, a spiritualist in the hall, and two men, Chranicki and Will Smith, wandering Indianapolis with mixed misdirection.
Friday night a new store opened while Mr John Kehoe visited Sullivan on Sunday. Rev Bruner spoke to a large audience that evening. R J Chilcote plans a recreation stay nearby this week. Armon Snyder of Knox county spent last week in the area. Charley Dailey returned from Illinois last week. Farmers no longer plead for rain as fair weather arrives. Homer Conan entered school on Monday. Supt Marlow visited schools Friday and stayed for the Literary that night. Miss Robbins of Louisville visited Mrs Abell late last week. Hunter Jos Ayers reports rabbit extermination in recent weeks. The pay car passed Monday lifting spirits among railroad workers. Prof F M Cunningham of Hamilton passed through town Monday morning en route to a southern Haddon school. James A Peyton of Salem, Oregon, with his mother Mrs Thos Peyton of Parke county, visiting relatives here. Around eight to nine Friday night the town felt a quake but it was Shel Reed rushing to catch the northbound train colliding with a stump.
Mr Fred Deal moves his family to town again. Ryce McClain moves to New Pittsburg Indiana. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Marshall Jennings on the 13th. Frank Graham dies on the 15th from typhoid fever. I O O F lodge plans a holiday festival. M E Sabbath school to hold a Christmas tree. Thomas Lowe of Danville Iowa visited last week. Mary Martha Payne and Chas Young visited Pimento Sunday. John Smock studies telegraphy under Tom Keho. MBH services held.
In Sullivan Indiana on November 20 1886 Frank Neft Post No 307 G A R announces a charity fair to start December 20 1886. Local business leaders urge firms and friends to donate goods and wares to aid needy comrades and widows and orphans of deceased soldiers with advertised displays and credit for contributors.
The following letters remain unclaimed in the Postoffice and will go to the Dead-letter office if not called for within thirty days. Hiram Bryant, A. F. Bickery, John Olmsted care of W. T. Bills, Will Copple, Frank Daniel, Mary Gordon, Ella Hendricks, McKee Bros., Alexander Race, John T. Rankin, Cora Stockland, L. F. Shepherd, J. ERNEST, P. M. Sullivan, Ind., Nov. 22, 1886. Notice to Stockholders. The December meeting of the Sullivan County Agricultural Society will be held at the courthouse in Sullivan, Saturday, December 4, 1888, at 1 o'clock p.m., officers to be elected. Each stock holder urged to attend. A. Coulson, Sec.
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