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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1922
Page
5
Graysville residents and visitors share updates on family, work, and church events. J D Ransford visits from Colorado while relatives discuss business, with several heading west in search of harvest work. Local ministers and lay leaders report a strong communion and solid financials as a coal strike nears settlement. Ross Ransford traveled to Terre Haute to see a Coleman last week.
Kingsley church Women’s Missionary Society met at the Drake church. Many Prairie Creek Baptist members visited Rev George Fuson at his home an annual gathering. Uncle Will Shields of Graysville vacationed here and fished with youths. Mrs M A Rose visits Terre Haute. Ian and Elmer Riggs made a business trip to West Union Illinois. Edgar Strain and wife drove to Terre Haute. A Ransford Durham sale drew attendees from north of Fairbanks. Carl Lester and wife visited Sullivan. Will Gaston visited Garrett Osburn. Edgar Strain and family plan a three week West trip visiting Kansas relatives. Dode Cochran of Bird Station visited Carl Lester. Old settlers reunion at York Indiana drew a community crowd. Merle Whitlock, State Normal student, spent Sunday at home. Frank Walton Farmersburg and C F Whitlock with son Frank visited Ira Drake for Sunday dinner. Charles Riggs and Hosea Drake visited Ben Adams. George Truitt of Shelburn visited Carl Lester. Jacob Foutz of Doddville attended church Sunday morning.
Pearl Nowlin returned home to Decatur Illinois on Tuesday. Several local families visited Sullivan and Lawrenceville while others attended a York Illinois reunion. Osie Hines and family traveled to Sullivan, and Emerson Watson’s group visited Lawrenceville. A. W. Hayes of New Orleans came on business, Robert Medsker recovered after a fall, and Miss Della Baker of Seattle visited Terre Haute with the Watsons and Hunt families.
Miss Lois Taft of Shelburn spends days with Mr and Mrs Olin Moore. Miss Blanche Marian McClanahan of Farmersburg visits Mrs Alice Hood. Numerous calls and dinners mark a busy week with local families including Jewell, Hood, Bennett and McKinney households.
The Home Makers Club of Turman township will meet at George Nowlin's home on Friday August 11. Fern Nowlin demonstrates canning friend chicken cold pack. Program includes piano solo The Joyful Peasant Lenore Irwin prayer rool call, cute sayings, vocal solo Daddy Longlegs Lois Bruner poems by Joe Reed Bill Herschel Eddie Guest read by readers, milk story Helen Cushman sketch Comin Thru the Rye club paper Fact and Fancy of Health Foibles Miss Anderson health nurse memory verse Tell Us sung to Bumoresque. Fern Nowlin talks on canning chicken. Interesting bit Chicory Taps with words.
Nick Keller and Arthur Risher of near Linton pleaded guilty before Mayor Walters to auto theft from Emil Nesbit here weeks ago and received six months each at the penal farm.
Edward G. Lowry surveys federal spending practices and the government’s handling of revenue. The piece outlines how Uncle Sam allocates funds across departments and programs, highlighting inefficiencies and the impact on national business.
A discussion on government personnel problems after WWI notes high turnover in supervisory and technical roles due to inadequate compensation and poor executive organization. It argues private gains lure talent, while salaries alone won’t attract or retain top experts, urging free field hiring and reward for public service.
In a Sullivan County inn Angeline Snow arrives with a book selling mission and draws admiration from guests including John Travers and Barrie West. A romantic triangle forms as Angeline reveals her true name and engagement to Travers, while Linda Wells’s letter hints at a family name and money behind her. Meanwhile a public notice invites bids for the Oscar Allen road improvement in Curry Township with specifics on bond, completion, and deadlines.
Mrs Jones complains to her husband that Willie won’t beat the carpets as he sits upstairs reading. He inquires what the boy is reading and learns it is a book titled How to Be Strong.
The fourth Houpt family reunion gathered at Merom Bluff on Sunday August 6 with 106 attendees and filled baskets. Members from Princeton Shelburn Terre Haute Sullivan Bedford and Bedford were listed among those present. the fifth reunion is set for the first Sunday in August 1928 at Merom Bluff.
Jerry Watson born April 30, 1862, in Dugger died August 5, 1922 at 60. He married Laura B. Neal in 1887. they had four children who died in infancy. A Christian since 1896, he suffered stomach cancer and faced death peacefully. Survived by wife and brother Albert Watson of Sullivan. Funeral at Church of Christ, burial in Paxton Cemetery.
The Merom Bluff Chautauqua starts a ten day session next Thursday with Ed ward K. Lewellyn returning as platform manager. Former Governor Ralston and Albert J. Beveridge, both senatorial candidates, are scheduled to speak Friday and Saturday respectively.
Miss Glenn Yeager, cooperative weather observer for the county, reports the week ending Feb 26 shows several clear days with high temperatures in the upper 80s and a low near 55, plus one partly cloudy day. Readings span February 1 to 6 with daily highs from 83 to 92 and lows from 55 to 91.
A historical notice announces a one year subscription to T. H. Star and Union priced at four dollars. The item implies a clerical sales pitch or newspaper classified offer for readers to subscribe.
Notice from Sullivan County Treasurer to sell 20 highway improvement bonds totaling 3000 dollars at not less than par. Bonds bear 5 percent interest from July 15 1922, payable semi annually May 15 and November 15 for 10 years. Auction at 12 M August 24 1922 in Sullivan Court House. Roy Osburn et al petitioned highway. One bid rejection right reserved.
J Harve Thompson serves as treasurer for Sullivan County Indiana handling county funds and fiscal responsibilities for the local government.
The document lists John Scott Percy Wolfe c. F. Springer as Board of County Commissioners with Frank M. Daniels as Auditor. Ist insertion August 9, 1922.
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