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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1921
Page
5
Clara Boone and Gladys Buff visit Indianapolis friends while many locals host relatives and attend events. The week includes chautauqua guests, family reunions, travels to Missouri and Franklin, and notes on hunting for an old coat and egg trading for Commodore Ransford. Distinguished visitors Charley Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle are noted in Graysville.
A. G. Apple and family of Palatine Illinois visited E. A. Borders and family Sunday. Miss Helen and Miles Pinkston spent the weekend with Miss Louise Setzer. Alfred Benson of Farmersburg spent Thursday evening and Friday with Andy Borders.
Arthur Harris made a business trip to Sullivan on Thursday. Families and residents attended a Jersey cattle show in Robinson on Wednesday. Threshing ended for James Brown and son Saturday. Quarterly conference in Graysville Thursday. Fun Sunday for a relative near Graysville with Alvin Bicknell family present. Dr C E Thomson and daughter joined Edgar Strain's family Sunday. Blanche Drake and Luther Whitlock visited here Sunday. Wible family visited Charles Riggs. North of Fairbanks residents visited church here Sunday. Terre Haute visitors included Mrs Reynolds. Dode Cochran and Carl Lester families stayed at nearby homes Friday to Monday. County officials surveyed roads Wednesday. Fairbanks attendee Mary Dickerson joined church Sunday. Local youth toured to Fairbanks and Graysville for ice cream sale Saturday afternoon. Mrs Patton and daughters visited Will Lester Monday. Many attended Terre Haute show. Sermon discussed farmer church relations and rural church decline with proposed solutions.
The Chicago municipal pier extends eight thousand feet into Lake Michigan and spans 292 feet wide, housing eight thousand five hundred feet of dockage and over four hundred fifty thousand square feet of freight storage. Built with twenty thousand piles and fifty thousand cubic feet of reinforced concrete, it also serves recreation with a hospital, restaurant, art room, auditorium, roof garden, and a second floor streetcar incline to the terminal.
Clarence E. Walters 23 a miner and Mamie M. Bond 18 of Sullivan obtain a marriage license. Herschel Taylor 26 a miner and Mamie Arthur 18 of Farmersburg also receive a license.
Quote attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds on how talent and directed labor drive industrial progress. It asserts that industry improves talents and that labor unlocks achievement, while nothing is denied to well directed effort.
A London Punch quip remarks that motorists cannot go around knocking people down and killing them every day, arguing that one death is enough for any cautious pedestrian to notice.
The article notes that in 2000 and 4000 B C Egypt held beliefs in life after death and resurrection, later passed to Christians by the Children of Israel. It argues scholars largely accept this, but Egyptian thought favored the body over the soul, explaining mummies and tomb statues.
If you are starting house plants indoors, harden them off gradually before placing them outside. Expose them to the outside air slowly or use a cold frame that can be covered at night. A lath frame can substitute for a glass frame, using prepared lath to protect plants.
An ad promises a 100 percent saving on pressing bills with a playful line about deducting the cost from pressing bits. The tone is promotional and humorous, reflecting a local advertisement.
In Toledo a local push highlights tax plans affecting pies and trade. Officials emphasize revenue use and public services while residents weigh costs and community needs.
The article recounts Sharpe Grover, famed for his knowledge of Sioux and Cheyenne tactics, his marriage to a Sioux woman, and his zero peer as a plains scout. He served with Custer and Forsyth, survived the Beecher's Island fight, guided Forsyth through Indian plans, and died after a drinking-induced end at Pond City near Fort Wallace.
Local Indiana ad features Rigg s Clay Product Company promoting drain tile tiles for farm and garden use. Read ads in this issue for details and contact information.
Eliza Jane Smith daughter of James and Mary Trinkle Smith was born March 5 1841 in Sullivan county and died August 3 1921 at her home north of Graysville. She married William Bell on December 14 1865 and had eight children five of whom survived with grandchildren and a sister Lucinda Chastain. She was a longtime member of Mt. Tabor M E Church respected as a christian woman.
Rev and Mrs W E Gray delay their Winona Lake trip due to Mrs Gray’s illness. Mr and Mrs Robert Campbell and daughters of St Louis return home after visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs H W Bennett traveled to Chicago after visiting Paris where they used the new concrete highway.
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