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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1885
Page
3
Local notices list Nelse Wilkey seeking poultry and onions and introducing new sorghum molasses. Community updates include illnesses and social visits across Sullivan, with multiple residents traveling, hosting, or buying goods.
Susaw resident Mr. Springer subscribes to the Times. Fairbanks visitor J C McKee calls at the office. Gancer cured without knife in six weeks. Real estate firm Riggs & Berry selling local farms. Davis Engle & Davis touts a light, fast grandest feed cutter. Mrs Belle Morgan travels via Sullivan to Tennessee. Fire chief orders a four o clock parade. For sale eighty acre Cass township farm, Abbey in Kan Kansas City. Building materials from Davis Engle & Co. W H Canary and Mollie visit. Church services at M E Church. Bishop Heavenridge and Chaplains confirm at Catholic church. Hosa King sues for 2000 dollars over slander. Drainage tile from Walls & Engle. estimates by Walls & Engle and Davis, Engle & Davis. Dan S Vail returns with grain samples from Kansas. Eye disease warning and Dr Crowley advertised.
The partnership between Messrs Bays and Coulson is dissolved. Coulson remains in law practice at the office over Sherman's store. Bays forms a new partnership with Judge Shelton of Terre Haute and will move to Sullivan around October first. Their office will be upstairs in the Col Young building.
Secretary Reiter expects at least 30,000 people to attend the forthcoming Vincennes fair on Thursday and Friday. Special excursion trains will run from eqitour Indiana Flora Spencer Carmi Evansville and Terre Haute on various lines, marking a first time effort by railroads to handle the crowds.
In a Sullivan town dispute, A. M. Murphy and numerous witnesses traveled to Broomfield on Monday for the case against the town. Dr. Murphy initially moved the venue to Greene, and the Town Board has now shifted the venue from Greene to Knox.
An excursion from Vincennes via the O M RY to Jacksonville Florida will depart Monday October 19 if headed by Mr F J Vogel of Florida. A special round trip rate will be made for this trip. For more information write to W B Halisted traveling passenger agent O M Ry Vincennes Indiana.
Dr Andrew N Weir M D of Sullivan Indiana died September 17 1885 after a brief illness congestion of the bowels He was a Mason and an Odd Fellow and his funeral was conducted by the Odd Fellows at ten o clock Tuesday His life included long medical service in Graysville Merom Sullivan and finally Sullivan He married twice and had five children The Sullivan M E Church Quarterly Conference issued a formal biographical sketch and a memorial resolution praising his quiet generous nature and church leadership.
The court adjourned Wednesday afternoon with little business aside from reporting next week on allowances. Licenses to retail liquors were granted to Ira Patten Carlisle and Charles Wernz near York, and I P Draper Geo Leach J Ridge Barth Koltinsky Ransom Bailey in Sullivan. The poor farm contract was renewed raising annual cost from 190 to 400. Road view appointments and damages were set for multiple petitions in Haddon Gill and Hamilton.
A narrow gauge passenger train derailed near Dugger on Tuesday after crossing a small bridge. Conductor Farnsworth suffered a scalp wound while W Brummet, Joe Boon, and a Terre Haute drummer sustained leg sprains and flesh wounds. Dr. Louder treated the injured as the wreck resembled a temporary hospital.
On Tuesday evening September 29 a lecture will be held in the Court House by G E Ireland on C H Spurgeon and his great work in London. The talk promises condensed accounts of his career with a device-laden syllabus and a 10 cent admission.
Dr James McDowell moves to town and his son Lon oversees the farm. The Mayfield Litton murder case continues with Bloomfield boys sharing what they know. N J McCammon leads local merchants. candidates visit townsfolk. Squire summons, Bedwell retires from dry goods, settling accounts. Ida Corbin weds Frank Fry at Baptist church September 20 1885. Saunders leaves after farewell sermon at Baptist Church.
Coal dealers report dull trade as Sam Vanarsdall moves from Terre Haute on Thursday and Noah Crawford Esq makes a business trip to Chicago last week. Mrs. Dr. Plew visits Shakerag.
Sunday guests join in hay pressing venture as Manwarring and Barnhart plan business. I O G T picnic at Ebenezer noted a fine time. Wheat sowing advances amid dry weather and fears of fly damage. Jacob Halberstadt estate sale drew crowds. Bill Moss acted as auctioneer. Several local weddings and visits, with illness and paralyzing stroke affecting Uncle John Ford. Mrs. Badders hosts a sumptuous dinner at home.
R Buck visited Sullivan on Tuesday while Sheriff Willis spent Sunday at Flora Illinois. Erastus French and Harry French moved through town with social calls and jokes. The town hall and Masonic Hall receive attention as the fair draws interest, with a deer picture by Ida Coffman pleasing sportsmen. The SullivanChicago Market Review reports wheat and corn holdings, exports, and price trends as the county fair and local commerce continue.
A lifelong friend writes of Dr A N Weir in September 1885, praising his good nature and constancy to right. The poem laments his early death, notes the widow's sorrow, and offers comfort that death begins Heaven's reward and hopeful reunion beyond pain.
A humorous survey of weekend street life including pigs in the sun a vegetable vendors herd cows and garden helpers. a social Sunday morning meeting by the Town Board discussing fights revolver calibers and religious seating. use of the Court House park as pasture and melon picnic ground. citizens lament fire apparatus while Jewish and Seventh Day Baptist crowds fill streets. youths ran dog fights brick throwing and window breaking as esthetic cowboy lore echoes through the neighborhood. MacGre TOPHOLLER.
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