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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1915
Page
8
Advertisement notes David L. Kaplan buys poultry hides old iron rubber and junk. Contact at 502 N Court St or phone 275 for prompt payment.
The Dix Lumber Company seeks baled hay and offers the highest market price.
John D. Shoop, noted lecturer at Merom chautauqua, was elected last week to lead Chicago schools as superintendent, succeeding Mrs. Ella Fiage Young.
A Friday night meeting of the Indian Prairie YMCA organized an agriculture class. Ivan T. Beck, agriculture instructor at Carlisle joint high school, will lead the course with weekly sessions.
Merom defeated Fairbanks on Saturday night with a decisive score as Fairbanks admitted Merom was their strongest high school foe. Eddie Morris returned home over the weekend.
Lorenz Brust of Lone Oak Arkansas visits his brother C Brust and family for two weeks north of the city. It has been twenty six years since their last meeting. Brust owns 400 acres of land near Lone Oak where rice is the chief product boosted by irrigation. He is 68 years old.
John Parrish, an E. P. Snapp farm hand, claims a Knox county corn husking record after pulling 161 bushels and ten pounds in eight hours and forty minutes. He husked clean with no ribbons and worked the down row alone for the feat.
The Sullivan Chamber of Commerce launches a Buy It In Sullivan drive with a Best Reason Contest. Five dollars awaits the winner for ten words or less explaining why to shop at Sullivan. Entries close December 18 with judges appointed by the board. The campaign urges residents to support local merchants and consider travel and freight costs when buying out of town.
Graysville High records mention Miss Georgia Ransford improving from typhoid fever and Clyde Daniels returning to school. Other updates include visits by Miss Martha York and Miss Cecil Patton, a junior girls basketball win over the 8th grade, a senior Carl Cushman sprain, a lit society program, a band concert, and a postponed basketball game with New Lebanon due to bad weather.
R. R. 1 Fairbanks reports the Osburns witnessing an oil well shooting on the Allen Osburn farm near Sullivan Monday evening. Farmers haul corn to West York Illinois. Sunday school secretary Rev Philip Freis visits for a forthcoming January institute. Various local visits and church services noted along with a high school dismissal due to Owen Kissner's funeral.
Mr and Mrs John Whitlock of Indianapolis came Friday to be the guests of Mr and Mrs David Whitlock for a few days.
Miss Martha York shopped in Terre Haute on Monday visiting friends. Jeems Phillips pitches a new buggy arrangement with hind wheels forward and front reversed, its advantage still unclear. Lem Harris visited Charles Thoma s Wednesday and Thursday. Miss Sylvia Stewart stayed Wednesday night with Miss Oma Monk. James Moore returned from Reelsville where he visited his son. Edith Thompson guest of friends Saturday. teachers institute met Saturday. Children discuss Christmas, hoping for $4 or $5 gifts, budget at $2.50. Rev O M Deal continues meetings through the week.
Carlisle Rose Camp No. 740 Royal Neighbors of America elected Lillian Whipps as oracle Susan Carrico as vice oracle Lucinda Dial as chancellor Eva Blevins as recorder Lena Schroeder as receiver Hattie Steffy as marshal Retta Ridgway as inner sentinel Emma Essex as outer sentinel C. O. Whipps as manager.
County commissioners appoint local option election officers in Jackson township for January 4. Precinct officers include Inspectors C C Nicholson John Barnett William D Kinsler John Wyman EB Marratta and W J Williams. Judges Fred Ashcraft S R Brown Charles Furry Jess Reynolds EB Marratta Carry Littlejohn. Clerks Walter Asbury William Strain Fred Prather Harry Woodrow John Evans J E Curry Ralph Phenis Wint Cummins Ross Waldrop.
Ray Hill 22 farmer of Palestine weds Lavina Smith 21 of Carlisle. Winfield L Payton 32 miner and Maude Staker 21 of near Hymera. Hezry Cutts 27 farmer of Terre Haute weds Mattie F Morgan 26 of Sullivan. Harris B Stuller 41 farmer and Dana M Cox 16 near Carlisle. Loyd W Sharpe 23 Terre Haute weds Victoria J Harriett 19 Sullivan.
Mr and Mrs John Cc Chaney traveled to Indianapolis yesterday morning for a several day stay, staying in the city for a short visit.
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