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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1880
Page
5
August items in Sullivan detail closeout sales at Troll & Burks and Tegarden. Campaign speeches by John C Briggs and local rallies with Garfield and Arthur club formation. Also notes on accidents, insurance man Fred Briggs and local farming reports.
Prof. Craig described as portly. Toney Dodds and family plan a Kansas visit for fall and winter. Mr. Curry's daughter from Atchison, Kansas visits local parents. Minnie and Mable Neal enjoying a trip down the St Lawrence. Hi McIntosh of Mason's grocery began a visit to Harden, Missouri.
Post notices describe torn Porter rally posters across Sullivan county with dates and names cut out. The piece notes wind could not account for damage and claims no Republican responsibility. Also covered are local events: Sullivan teachers institute session August 30 and teaching license exam August 28, Col. Young speech at New Lebanon, and a mounted escort guards unit being formed. A fire wreck left Mrs. Perrow insured, a 75 foot pole raised for a star spangled banner and Garfield Arthur streamer, and lists of uncalled letters at Sullivan post office with names and ladies list instructing advert posters to be cited.
Fall term offerings include normal department for teachers and a business book keeping course. Expenses capped at 25 dollars for twelve weeks. Catalogs available from President at Merom Indiana. Annual closing out sale on boots shoes to clear aging stock. bargains offered to trade.
Five cent and twenty five cent to one dollar excursion fares are published for Friday August twentieth from Robinson to Sullivan and nearby points including UVa tacspep, Palestine, Lebanon, Center and Buel City. The note promises unchanged rates during the current campaign. Chief engineer E Pratt Burger signs the memo.
Reuben Ronsford owns a new wheat drill and dry hard ground plows are praised. Erastus French sells his farm to Hamilton Ridgway. Buff and Massie schedule August 21 meeting at Graysville. Wm. Medsker sells Buck Ridge farm to Wm. Carl. A. C. Norman relocates to Merom. Town gains a justice of the peace amid a Democratic meeting at Sullivan. Andy Weir acquires a new three horse plow and both riders sing of better days.
Prosperity Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars announces a picnic on August 28 in the grove east of Cyrus Pierce's, 34 miles south of Fairbanks Indiana. A public installation of officers will be led by F A Friedler and speakers including Mrs Sallie C Jackson M E Shiel and more. Mrs Jackson will tour Carlisle Pleasantville Sunvay Robinson Illinois before returning.
A lyrical piece extols the red white and blue as symbols of liberty and unity. The verses celebrate Columbia and its armed forces, urging perseverance of freedom and nationhood with choruses praising the flag and its guardians.
The special election in Terre Haute's 6th ward produced a decisive Republican victory as Phil Lips won the council seat by an 82 vote majority. The ward, long Democratic, was cited by Democrat McNutt as a bellwether for county, state, and national trends.
Wilson, a cattle man from Illinois, shot George Ferree's bull dog on the highway when it attacked his shepherd dog near Ferree's residence. Ferree sued and won a judgment for 22 dollars plus costs. Community sympathy rests with Wilson who was seen as protecting his property.
In Knox county on August 11 1880 Oliver Road of the 14th Indiana Volunteers recounts events at Gettysburg detailing why his Medal of Honor was awarded to a fellow soldier who carried the rebel flag. He notes Rood did not capture prisoners and slept at camp while the fight continued. Ben Hill and Henry Slusser reportedly share the same statement.
A reader notes that poor health dulls work across professions and promotes Hop Bitters as a simple cure. The column hints at easy relief and advises removing misery to perform well. The remark underscores how ailment hampers preaching law cases medicine writing and suggests a straightforward fallback.
An exhortation urges readers to abandon expensive medical care and humbug remedies. It advocates nature’s simple Hop Bitters as the best remedy for all ailments, promising wisdom health and happiness and noting another column for details.
An appeal urges intelligent mothers to keep Dr. Crampton's Strawberry Balsam as a mild quick remedy for dysentery diarrhea griping pains cholera morbus summer complaints cholera colic flux and painful purging. Timely use in emergencies has saved many lives.
Inventors urged to seek careful preparation before the Patent Office. Attorney C. KE. Foster of Washington, D. C., with 19 years’ practice, offers guidance and pamphlets. References include officers of the Bureau and local banks. Mason & Hamlin and Woods organs advertised for sale by Geo. F. Hughes.
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