The Union Editor J A Hays Proprietor
The Union notes J A Hays serves as editor and proprietor with offices above Sullivan County Bank.
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J. A. Hays
Sullivan County Bank
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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1882
Page
5
Easter memories and local notices mark county life
Dated April 12 1882 obituary notes Father J A Johnson a county pioneer and a livery yard reports nine dead dogs found in a rear stableWere told of Easter tides and blooming flowers Koltinskey Bros plan a confectionery bakery and restaurant at No 5 Southside Freelandsville correspondent reminded to give real names Grand jury discussions hint at indicting old Probs for cold snap Masonic hall gets carpet and a 27th dedication date Hotel Fuller to rename Grand praised for hospitality Reverend Hua Chin will lecture April 21 in native dress Ridgeway vs Weir malpractice suit dismissed with costs and payment to doctor full
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hua Chin
Lane Seminary
Cincinnati
Ridgeway
National Greenbackers Meet to Nominate Town Ticket
The National Greenbackers of Sullivan will meet next Saturday evening at the Lone Brick to nominate a town ticket. T. J. Ropprys, Chairman. GEO. CALLAIAN, Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Greenbackers of
Sullivan
T. J. Ropprys
Ch’m'u
Geo. Callaian
Sec
Merom College visitors and local arrivals prompt town chatter
Mrs Prof McHenry Prof Aldrich Miss Maggie Hays and Miss Mattie Wasson of Merom college called on the Union Saturday. J Jackson Rev L R Edmunds from Jefferson were in town last week. E Price read bailiff duties this week. Various locals and visitors including John S Moore of Chicago and Elias Denny of Shelburn were seen about town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McHenry
Aldrich
Maggie Hays
Mattie Wasson
Merom College
Wasson
Geo. C. Youngman
New Lebanon
John Jackson
L. R. Edmunds
Jefferson
A. B. Perkins
Hoopseton
Ill
Col
Ed Price
Reading
Wes Barnard
Jim Russel
Rockville
Bart Lusader
Anna M. Knotts
Indianapolis
Lillie Eaton
May Wolfe
Julia Eaton
Irvin Catlin
Byron Ferree
Charley Mayfield
E. Callahan
Robinson
Geo. Hughes
Terre Haute
Geo. Riley
Smiley N Chambers
Vincennes
Luna Bierce
Asbury University
John S. Moore
Chicago
Elias Denny
Shelburn
Temperature Drops Threaten Fruits After Warm Day
Monday night a swift temperature plunge followed a day of heat, dipping well below freezing. Farmers fear fruit crops may be damaged as buds stop forming.
Jolly Contributor Discusses Summer Plans and Town News
A whimsical review notes Bill Harper planning a summer abroad or boat trips with Capt. Will Van Fossen, plus local echoes on gardening, fish smells, and town happenings. It cites Clarksville civic matters, weather impacts, tax tags for dogs, sanitary concerns, and a quiet township election with few votes.
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Bill Harper
Scottsville
Will van Fossen
Russel McKinley
Times
Indianapolis
Billy Beck
Sally
Crowder
Thos. Burton
Esq. van Fossen
Cochran
Jim
Golly
Tayloring
Sullivan Merchants Form Mutual Protection Society
Merchants in Sullivan held Friday and Monday night meetings to organize a mutual protection society aimed at shielding members from deadbeats who refuse to pay for goods.
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Merchants of Sullivan
Gentleman Shoe Line Delights Town Shoppers At Hinkle's
Local ad proclaims a new Fixk Burrox Suors line with glove-kid top shoes and slippers. It touts an elegant Kid Toe Slipper for 1.00 and claims unmatched style and quality in a brief, period ad from Hinkles near the Post Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hinkle’s
Sweet Potato Plants For Sale Early Peabody Variety
Advertises 60 bushels of sweet potato plants including Early Peabody, offered for planting with readiness around May 5. Seeks agents to take orders in every neighborhood. Also notes cabbage tomato and celery plants available.location mile west of Sullivan. Crowder Reed and Wilkey Bros cited for school books and groceries.
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Peabody
Joan L. Surenos
Sullivan
Graysville News Mix Shifts From Roads To Local Notes
Graysville chatter turns from the gravel road company to farmers and merchants as mud dries. Wheat prices and market talk mix with social notes on Rebecca Chambers, Mary Cochran, and a Turman school music sendoff. Local figures like T. C. Lloyd and George Youngman campaign for McCormick harvesters while Bulletin Man forecasts editions for April and May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graysville
Sullivan
Bulletin
Bester
Rebecca Chambers
Mary Cochran
Turman
Shelburn
George Youngman
Turman Township
McCormick
Harvester
No. 11
South Side
Looker On
Meteor
Big Results from Little Causes
A Chestnut Street chat suggests Conkling and Platt resigned due to skin disease fears. The joke frames the resignation as eruptive and rash, proposing Swayne's Ointment as a cure for skin ailments to avert national trouble.
Merom Notes and Local Meetings Report
Rev James Maple completes lectures and heads home to Marion. Rev J T Phillips spoke on courtship and marriage. Scott Thompson builds a photograph gallery. Spann and Hunt visited Sullivan. Rev C L Jackson leads a successful meeting at New Bedford Mass. President Smith named first of twenty on Antioch college executive committee at Yellow Springs Ohio. News scarce this week. Spring poetry notices and seed prices hinted. annual boat excursion mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antioch College
Yellow Springs
Enra
General Stamplede for Free Trial of Dr King’s New Discovery
Crowder and Reed offer a free trial bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds to all with asthma bronchitis hoursnegs severe coughs or any throat lung ailment. Dr A E Bucher, dentist partner, advertises dental operations and artificial teeth at reasonable prices. F P Bonner of Meadville Pa sends praise for Brown’s Iron Bitters. Wilkey Bros marks down Queensware in response to market decline. ap12ti.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crowder & Reed’s
Dr. King’s
A. E. Bucher
J. A. Cottier
South Side
Sullivan
F. P. Bonner
Meadville, Pa
Brown
Wilkey Bros
Closing Exercises of ME ROM School
Reports detail the Me Rom School closing last Friday with a surprise for absent Mr. Benson. Pupils and 35 visitors dined at three tables, leaving twelve baskets for scraps as the event ends with literary exercises and a farewell address by Miss Rossel St. Clair, who had died two weeks earlier. Rossea St. Clair is noted as the donor of a hat and a poetry volume to Mr. Benson via the school.
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Rossel St. Clair
Earth
Bettie Hanchett
Bezson
Meredith
Rossea St. Clair
J. W. Joxas
Million NT volumes sold on first day with pile remedy sales
Over two million copies of the revised New Testament sold in one day. The piece compares these figures to Swayne's Ointment for Itching Piles, described as a standard nightly remedy. The text questions how long it would take to measure such sales and asks if readers will endure the piles longer.
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Swayne
Brown Iron Bitters Promises Quick Cure For Ailments
Nervous debility melancholy catarrh of the bladder leucorrhea and related conditions are claimed to be rapidly cured by the soothing and strengthening effects of Brown Iron Bitters.
Weir asks settlement of old accounts in Sullivan Indiana
All persons knowing themselves to be indebted to me on old acc counts will please call on S C Coulson, in whose hands I have placed the same with full power for settlement. Sam D Weir. Sullivan Indiana April 3.
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C. Coulson
Sam. D. Weir. Sullivan
Ind
Boys and youths spring suits at Sol Goodman's apartments
Young shoppers seek spring attire at Sol Goodman's apartment complex storefront. Sol Goodman offers boys and youths suits and related outfits as part of a seasonal sale.
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Sol Goodman
Temperance Convention and Local Notices At Indianapolis
T. A. Mason attended the Temperance Convention in Indianapolis last week. McLain the painter continues work for A. W. Springer. W. T. Daugherty reports a new barbed wire fence described as nice. The quarterly meeting was well attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Mason
Indianapolis
McLain
A. W. Springer
W. T. Daugherty
Parker's Ginger Tonic Praised by Living Witnesses
Hundreds of men women and children rescued from pain sickness and near death by Parker's Ginger Tonic are cited as evidence of its value and merit, with reports from many communities.
Curry Township Returns and Local News Mixed in Results
Republicans led at Farmersburg with a strong race while Democrats criticized the convention. Bill McCard made a late surge outrunning Wall and local cavalry. Also notes on Sunday school prosperity, sermons, ill health in families, deaths including Grandmother Curry and Ela Drake, store changes, and local politics including votes for Charley Bolinger over Governor Porter.
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Elvetson
Farmersburg
Bill McCard
Constable Wall
Shelburn Cavalry
Liberty
Hitler A. &. Loudermilk
Liberty Church
Smock Pitman
Terre Haute
Johnson Jewel
Clara Bennett
James Manwarring
James McClannahan
New Lebanon
Shields
Henry Shields
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Conkling
Platt
Oter
Queensware Tumbled
W. Kelly
Buick
LJ Silverware
Onin
Charlie
Lya
Commercial Row
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Merom School
Milans
Dye
Voltaie Belt Co
Marshall, Mic
Novaly
Mason & Hamlin
Tom Hughes
McKeneny’s
Southside Square
Sulliven
W. N. Hollenback
Youngman
Mason
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Sol Goodman’s
Apd
Weir's
Giles
John Giles & Son
Giles Cash Store
King Fortune
IndiAna Department
Preiss
Joseph Brown
Lafayette
Otic
Mary F. Batley
Sullivan County
Indiana
W.T. Murdock
Norce
Alexander ‘Thompson
George C. Youngman
Plate Wiskey Bros
M Lott
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