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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1903
Page
5
Mrs Mesha Eaton is ill and several residents travel for business and visits. The Indianapolis Southern Railway project progress, local marriages, property trades, and business changes are logged along with hospital and club activities. Notable items include Otto Call’s marriage and pension, and numerous springtime social moves.
Uncle Charley Turman died last Friday night after a six week illness. He is survived by his wife two sons and a daughter. Funeral held at the Presbyterian church with Rev. Montgomery officiating and burial in Mann cemetery amid a large crowd. Graysville reports corn husking nearly complete and mentions visits from E V Leach and Yager relatives. Dr E J Yager ill with la grippe.
Miss Henriette Berlingmier spent Thanksgiving with her sister Mrs. Barcus. Rev. T. K. Willis visited his son Charles east of town. Miss Daisy Walker from Oaktown attended the Ladson Bedell wedding.
A woman in the north of England dreams a wooded lane and hidden attackers the night before a surgeon named Stirling is murdered nearby. The crime occurs at the exact spot she described. The killer’s pawned watch leads to Cain and Rain who are later acquitted amid public belief of guilt.
Joseph Elmer Drake brings to the Auditorium a comedy sensation An American Hobo written by E. E. Kidder. The cast includes a tramp, a detective, an insurance agent, a wealthy rogue, a deceitful husband, a persecuted wife and mother, a daughter, and a village ne'er-do-well. Kidder's works Peaceful Valley and A Poor Relation helped Sol Smith Russell rise to fame and fortune.
John Boles of Sullivan awaits trial on assault and battery for allegedly striking Richard Whorton with a brick. William Strain Jr. of Turman township was found guilty of malicious trespass for breaking a gate lock on John Dodds property, with costs totaling 24.74 dollars.
A fragment notes a clothing store associated with Woods. The readable text mentions a shop named Its a Great Clothing Store and credits a Woods connection, but no further details on location ownership or date are visible.
The dialogue features Harry Blanche insisting on strong reasons to stay single and Horace admitting he knows them without hearing them from her. A quip about a woman's idea of anticipation notes she packs her trunk two weeks before a trip, reflecting social wit of the era.
Notice from the Sullivan town trustees proposing to incur a debt of 36000 dollars to build and equip two new Sullivan school buildings. One costs 38000 for a no story brick building to house about 200 students on a two acre site east of Mt Common street. The other costs 28000 for a two story brick building to house about 400 pupils at Court and Harris streets. Bond issue rate not exceeding five percent and repayable within ten years. Dated December 9, 1903.
The Sullivan Circuit Court issues a non resident notice in case 11021, Jacob Maret v Parif fom and Ida Osharn et al. The defendants widow Polly Sherman and other heirs are urged to appear on January 11, 1904, at the Sullivan Court House or answer by demur to the complaint for partition and quiet title.
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