European War Forces Halt Local Oil Development
Oil firms led by the Kennedy and Ohio concerns announce no further local drilling until the European conflict eases. Export constraints and wartime shipping shortages drive the pause as producers report several wells in the county. notable activity occurs in the Jamison pool and nearby townships with mixed results and ongoing wildcat drilling in Haddon township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
The
Ohio
Kennedy Oil Company
E. H. Nesbit
the Ohio
Jamison
Hamilton Oil and Gas Company
Wernz
Riggs and Oliphant
Beard
Bays Brothers
J. W. Merrill
Merrill
Howard Campbell
John Dodd
Tom Dix
Kennedy
Jefferson Township
Pleasantville
Pittsburg
Frank Gambillwell
Eureka Oil and Gas Company
Indianapolis
Jamison Pool
Lucy Mason Place
New Lebanon
H. F. Bland
Dodd Pool
Malissa J. Beard
Arthur Hunt
Newton & Company
Higdon
Downes
J. R. Riggs & Company
Stratton
International Oil Company
John C. Chaney
Terre Haute
Tina Carey
Kennedy People
Dodd
Hymera
Jackson Township
Carlisle News
Haddon Township
Carlisle
Bickle & McArthur
Chattanooga, Tenn
Davidson
Collins
Town
John Whipps
Ne. Nw
Sullivan Field
Frank Breech
Sullivan
Pilmer
Haynes
Oliver P. Pifer
Weather of a Week Report from Farmersburg
Miss Carrie Yeager cooperative weather observer for the county provides the weekly summary for August 9. Dates show high temperatures from 87 to 96 and lows from 60 to 74 with mostly cloudy to clear days and a rainfall total of .30 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmersburg
Carrie Yeager
Co-Operative Weather Observer
Well Known Merom Woman Dies in Alabama
Harriet Minter Harper, longtime Merom resident, died Friday in Mobile Alabama after a long illness from Brights disease. She was born April 28, 1857 near Merom and married to Dr. Henry F. Harper. survived by daughter Bernice. Funeral held at Merom church with burial in Merom cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet Minter Harper
Merom
Bernice Brisbois
Mobile
Alabama
J. H. Brisbois
M. E
C. B. Hershey
DeLand
Florida
Town items reveal jokes and small stories from Sunday life
Quarantine on limburger cheese experiments. new Havana cigars on sale. local politics and campaigns. charity donations. tradesmen opening shops. church antics and gossip. a sermon about mountains of Hepsi dam. community mischief with fly paper and a cat and dog disturbance. Sunday school tales and sling shots among boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeke Billings
Havanna de Cuba
City Life
Bill Blithers
Chicago
Squire Hartsock
Missionary Society
Africa
Dick Bledsoe
Ed Bascombe
Salina Baker
Jerusha
Perkins
Hepsidam
Deacon Hartsock
Jim Spivins
Ebbersole
Betsy Billings
Betsy
Zeb Smithers
Arminta Jones
Zeb
Arminta
David
Goliath
Mrs Amanda Chastain Dies After Brights Disease at 61
Mrs Amanda Chastain of Canton Mississippi wife of Samuel Chastain died recently from Brights disease. A native of the county she was 61 years old. The family moved to Mississippi in 1902.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amanda Chastain
Samuel Chastain
Canton
Miss
Mississippi
William Thurber Arrested On Suspicion In Linton
William Thurber son of A B Thurber a mail carrier was arrested in Linton by Chief Beatty and Patrolman Coleman on information from Charles Laffoon. He faced no charge at arrest and suffered a nervous attack in jail. Authorities suspect mental instability after prior odd acts. Laffoon claimed Thurber hired him to help move cattle from Sullivan to Linton and to sell a mare with Thurber to receive a share of the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Thurber
A. B. Thurber
Linton
Beatty
Coleman
Charles Laffoon
Thurber
Paul Higbee
Young Thurber
Laffoon
Sullivan
1. C
Survivors of Armageddon Name County Ticket
The Progressive county convention at the courthouse named a full ticket with 23 of the survivors eight Democrats and six Republicans. List includes Ernest Chapman for Prosecuting Attorney and C. C. Stone for Recorder among others. If elected the ticket may move the county seat to Dugger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armegeddon
Court House
Bro. Freis
Committee On Applause
Ernest Chapman
Harry Alumbaugh
Carlisle
A. L. DeLashmutt
Shelburn
Pearl Elliott
Dugger
C. C. Stone
Charles Johnson
George T. Buck
Jefferson Township
O. E. Chowning
Joseph Bull Lacey
Edward Moose Corbin
A. D. Leach
Oscar Fertich
Indianapolis
Schools Ready to Open After September 7 Start
The city schools will open Monday September 7 under Superintendent Vance who is coordinating opening logistics. Construction on the north Court street departmental building by Routt Brothers proceeds rapidly after stone shipment delays. Walter E Hisey from Corydon is hired as mathematics teacher, a Indiana University graduate. Ed Lisman and J T Holcomb return as high school and Elm Park janitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vance
North Court Street
Routt Brothers
Walter E. Hisey
Corydon
Roberts Awarded National Scholarship to Catholic University
Louis L. Roberts of Carlisle has been notified by Cardinal Gibbons that he won one of 30 national Knights of Columbus scholarships to the Catholic University in Washington D C. The $600 yearly award funds a law course after competitive exams among about 400 entrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton, Ind
Roberts
Miss Gertrude Cain Visites St Petersburg Parents
Miss Gertrude Cain, employed as a bookkeeper on the St. Petersburg Times, is spending a month visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Cain, in St. Petersburg Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Cain
St. Petersburg
Fla
Times
Johin Cain
Democrats Attack Tariff and Hurt Home Industry
The Lewistown Argus argues the Democratic tariff bill worsened the U S home market by allowing free imports from Argentina and China of beef mutton pork eggs butter and livestock from Canada. It claims British mills captured steel ties and Texas bought streetcar equipment in Birmingham, reducing American mill usage and jobs while harming Montana producers. An unrelated notice follows appointing Virgil A Burks as administrator with will annexed for Anna M Faris, Sullivan County Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argentina
China
New Zealand
Pacific Coast
Montana
Canada
Texas
Birmingham
America
Lewistown
Mont
Argus
President Wilson mocks business with psychological depression
The Northwestern Agriculturist notes President Wilson ridicules business gloom as purely psychological and predicts prosperity would come with a jump if manufacturers believed it. It contrasts a fake adviser who claimed worldwide wind would halt revolution if everyone shouted Oh at once, and cites Babson’s reports that the country’s manufacturing output is only twenty five seventy sevenths of normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Babson
Northwestern Agriculturist
Sugar tariff push may trigger White House review
Washington reports say the commerce department considers a sugar import duty of one cent a pound. The Underwood Simmons tariff aided sugar interests by $40,000,000 yearly with little consumer benefit and harm to cane and beet growers. Income tax receipts miss targets by $23,000,000, and the tariff pressure strains the Wilson administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Commerce
Wilson
United States
Underwood-Simmons
Sugar Trust
Binghamton
Republican-Herald
Tariff Tangle and Foreign Folly headline a Wilson era roundup
A terse list of wartime era headlines highlights tariff tangle Mexican muddle shipping surrender revenue raid foreign folly and waning wages under Woodrow Wilson era critique. It notes missteps in policy and economy with brisk, alliterative phrasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow
Wilson
Unemployed Horde Overruns Missouri Wheat Fields
A big state newspaper last week blamed Democratic tariff tinkering for trainloads of harvest hands pouring into Kansas and Missouri. The piece links hard times and low business mood to widespread U.S. unemployment driven by Democratic policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Kansas
East
United States
Legis
Notice of Final Settlement in Ridgeway Estate
Charles H. Pearce administrator of Virginia H. Ridgeway’s estate files a final account with the Sullivan Circuit Court. The hearing is set for Monday September 7 1914 the first day of the September term. Creditors heirs and heirs at law must appear to show cause why the report should not be approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Pearce
Virginia H. Ridgeway
Sullivan Circuit Court
Unclear OCR Snippet on Securities and Health
Fragmentary text mentions securities and a medical condition about the bowels, with no clear event, names, or location readable.
Slippers and Shoes Sale With Fall Money Offer
A store advertises liquidation of slippers and white shoes with fall money savings. Slippers and assorted qualities priced at 2.98 and 1.98 for select lots.
Sunday School Convention Draws Crowds Despite Weather
The annual Sunday school convention at Manngrove drew a large attendance despite threats of rain. Rev. Phillip Freis spoke as the county organizer, with many schools from Turman Gill and Fairbanks townships and some from Illinois present. A second picnic is planned at Ellery Hayden's grove in Curry township on August 25, with numerous schools expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manngrove
Phillip Freis
Turman, Gill
Fairbanks Township
Illinois
Ellery Hayden's Grove
Curry Township
Summer Constipation Dangers Warned By Health Advice
Summer constipation warned as more dangerous due to contaminated foods and excess cold water. Po-Do-Lax advertised as a pleasant remedy boosting bile to purge congested waste. claims it prevents colic fever ptomaine poisoning and related ills with a nightly dose for 50 cents at the drugstore.
Public sale of school property in Turman township Indiana
Notice of sale by trustee W. B. Jewell on August 14 1914 at 10 am at the premises description district No 11 in Turman township Sullivan county Indiana. Sale at public outcry follows notice first insertion July 29 1914.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Turman Township
Sullivan County
Indiana
W. B. Jewell
Notice to Non-Residents in Sullivan Circuit Court
In Sullivan County Indiana a 1914 notice informs Ed North George Northrup and Barbara E North non residents must answer by September 21 1914 in Complaint No 16062 accusing them of an account and attachment. The filing dated July 7 1914 names Hays & Hays as plaintiffs attorneys and CHARLES R RAILSBACK as Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ED North
Hays
Sullivan County
State of Indiana
Charles R. Railsback
Sullivan Circuit Court
State of
Indiana
Sullivan
Goldie Burch
Burch Divorce ComplaintFiled In Sullivan County Court
Complaint No. 15933 in 1914 shows Goldie Burch vs Ellis Burch for divorce. Plaintiff through attorney Lee F Bays filed at Sullivan County Indiana court August 7 1914 with affidavit stating defendant nonresident. order to appear by October 8 1914 or default.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Ellis Burch
Lee F. Bays
Sullivan Circuit
Ellis Burch
Indiana
Sullivan County
Bachelor’s Savage Comment From Wealthy Gentleman
A wealthy country-seat owner narrowly saved his mother-in-law from a river on his estate and announced the escape to friends. An old bachelor guest quipped that the river was “too shallow,” revealing a sharp social moment.
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Ohio and Kennedy Company
Merom W
Harriet Harper
Daughter
Bloomington
Anna M. Faris
Virgil A. Burks
M. A. Haddon
Odd
Flatry S
DR. Trey
DR. Lindley
Interurban Station
Osa Reynolds
Charles R . Railsback
Plaintiff
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