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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1919
Page
1
Young men from Washington report thefts including the Briggs auto in a sequence of robberies. Authorities investigate the incidents as part of the ongoing case.
In Sullivan Indiana William R Willis and 20 freeholders petition for vacation and relocation of a road in Jackson township coordinated with earlier Hogatt petitions The dispute centers on the road being part of a mail route which cannot be changed and names all petitioning landowners and parties to the case
Mrs A G McNabb Mrs D R Fouteh and Mrs Charles Walston formed a committee to raise 1600 dollars for church redecoration. They have collected about 1240 dollars through voluntary subscriptions.
A north side merchant bought a dining room set from a Chicago mail order firm. The table failed to match the description and was returned, then delivered to a local furniture dealer by error. The episode highlights the trade at home movement and a merchant patronizing the same kind of business.
Contracts for eight miles of Sullivan County roads await State Board of Tax Commissioners approval after an August 22 meeting. Work targets include completion mostly by November with December deadlines. delays may make meeting contract terms unlikely. Roads listed include Lund-Beasley on Dixie Bee Line, Elmer Pifer, Elias Borders, Dan V. Howard, and P. D. Over gravel projects in Turman Gill townships and Jefferson township.
Two major events set for August 21 and 23 at Hayden's grove near Shelburn. Sunday school picnic features Indianapolis speaker H. L. Bonsib with Rev. L. L. Johnson as platform manager. Farmers gathering on August 23 will hear Charles S. Barrett of Union City Georgia, an official of the Farmers Alliance, deliver the principal address.
James M. Howard aged 79 died Friday at his home in Sandborn. Funeral services were held Sunday at Bethel church near Sandborn. Surviving relatives include his widow and six children two daughters and four sons plus three sons and three daughters named J F Douthitt and Ed Douthitt relatives, Mrs A C Owens and Charles Howard of this city.
The Union retracts an earlier notice about Mrs Lois Halcyon Brown dying of cancer. The corrected cause is acute gastroenteritis with other contributing factors.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Harris of Gary Indiana visit the city as guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Harris. Mr. Harris serves as city editor of the Gary Post.
News of Andrew Carnegie’s death from bronchial pneumonia at his Lenox Massachusetts summer home. The Scottish born industrialist, 84, built a vast iron fortune and funded libraries and universities nationwide. His philanthropy built three Sullivan County libraries: Sullivan, Merom, and Carlisle, and supported church organs including a donation of two thousand dollars for a new Christian church organ.
John R. Stewart of Sullivan displayed a Democratic ticket from the 1860 campaign. It lists Stephen A. Douglas as presidential candidate with Herschel W. Johnson as vice president. Also named are senatorial electors Cyrus L. Dunham John C. Walker and eleven district electors.
After six year old Bettina Boatman was injured when a Shelburn driven car struck her, Fred Thompson 19 was released on two $500 bonds for assault with intent to kill and liquor charges. Robert Hughes Logan Underhill Walter Siner and Clayton Snapp were fined $14 each for intoxication. The child was taken to Terre Haute hospital and reported much improved.
James L Hornbeck 22 oil worker near Graysville and Juanella Raines 18 near Shelburn. William Norton 50 miner and Lena Zummerman 49 both of Shelburn. William D Shoemaker 19 railroader and Bulah Borders 20 both of Farmersburg. Oscar Criss 26 carpenter and Grace Reedy 20 both of Hymera. Roy Cooper 45 painter Attica and Minnie Greene 48 Sullivan George. W Fields 35 miner and Laura Hart 21 both of Hymera. John Tipton 72 farmer Nymera and Katherine Joseph 438 Graysville. William A Woods 38 butcher and Emma M Alumbaugh 32 clerk both of Dugger.
Merle s concert band from Terre Haute under Merle M. Baker has been engaged to perform all day September 23 for the Sullivan County Victory Celebration honoring local veterans. The 60 member ensemble will wear army uniforms as returned soldiers and sailors who served in the war. The Sullivan Concert Band led by Frederick Sharp will also perform, with a courthouse park dance planned at night.
A Severe wind and rain storm along the Wabash river in Sullivan county and Illinois between Palestine and Hutsonville caused a fire at Morris Ward farm south of Merom destroying a barn and its contents including 350 bushels of wheat. The flood tore down a Riverton riverbank tree that held the ferry cable delaying ferry service. Eagle Island Club members lost transport home due to the out of service ferry. Rain fell widely with minimal wind damage elsewhere.
Thomas Nugent and George Gilliatt of Washington Indiana arrive in the city to inquire about bond for their sons held on grand larceny charges related to the theft of the Dr Co F Briggs automobile. They came to oversee bond arrangements and support their sons.
Deputy County Clerk Charles R Railsback issued ten hunting licenses on Saturday, bringing total licenses issued since July 31 to about fifty. The spike follows the squirrel hunting season opening on August 1, prompting the activity.
Fred Dunder of Dugger has applied in Sullivan Circuit Court for second naturalization papers. He was born in Lipinspen Germany and the war prevented full naturalization.
Mr and Mrs Mervin Engle and their Indianapolis family are visiting relatives here.
By September 1, all Sullivan county schools will hire teachers for 1919 1920, opening September 15. Resignations and hiring difficulties mark this season, but openings are filled with incumbents moving to new posts and new principals at Graysville Hymera Fairbanks Martinsville Pleasantville and other towns. The 76 district schools are apportioned across Cass Curry Fairbanks Gill Haddon Hamilton Jackson Jefferson Turman and other townships.
Mrs Orlando C Brewer filed with County Clerk David Giles a petition to take under the law her share of the Brewer estate instead of the will. Orlando C Brewer died at Sullivan County hospital about a month ago. The will named wife and two children and others as beneficiaries and provided for a nearly $20,000 hospital bequest. The estate is valued about $75,000.
Ed W. Akin president of the Peoples State Bank at Carlisle and brother of Joe T. Akin underwent two operations Saturday at the Mayo Brothers sanitarium in Rochester Minnesota. The procedures included a blood transfusion and spleen removal. He had been in failing health and spent last winter in Los Angeles California.
Carl M. Knotts buys from Dr. L A Stewart a 116 acre farm southwest of Sullivan for 150 dollars per acre. He holds a lease on the Mrs Sue M Reid farm west of the city and plans to move to the new property next spring.
James McConnell of near Carlisle sold 240 acres in Haddon township to John E. Isles of Lyons Indiana for 48000 dollars, about 200 per acre. It is the largest land transaction in Sullivan County in several years.
Lee Bays and R F Logan of the Bays Logan Coal Company have bought a coal mine near Coalmont from the Peoples Coal and Mining Company.
Prof. O F Hall of Purdue urges revival of farm life through local farmer gatherings. He envisions community-based discussions and cooperative efforts to strengthen rural economies and share practical farming knowledge.
Rural expert O F Hall told Graysville clubwomen that farm life could renew community spirit through old time parties and cooperative effort. He noted Purdue connections and a national push led by Prof G I Christie to revive neighborly cooperation via home demonstration and agricultural agents.
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