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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1902
Page
8
Numerous social notes from Merom Indiana report visits by Mr Manifold Dr Yager and others including Bennie Ward Emma Wright and Prof Ward. School, church and club activities span prayer day moving pictures concert and pie supper. Illness to Pearl Aldrich and Grace Aldrich noted along with a death in Merom and a Measles scare.
Several residents attended the ice harvest and a ball game in Shelburn. Jas Drake visited Sullivan on business. Jonathan Dilley went to Middletown. Miss Ethel Granby visited Alma Drake. Rev Daugherty preached. Ward Miles works for McCormick Machine Co. Ed Talley plans to move to Illinois. teachers expect one more institute in March.
Miss Ora Robbins visits sister Mrs Riggs this week. The Methodists hold a revival at the Marlow school house. Get your neighbor to subscribe for the Union. Mrs Low Crawford has been ill but is improving. Thomas Mitchell of Carlisle preached at Good Hope Saturday. Groundhog theory predicts seven weeks of bad weather.
Graysville updates report visitors Ed Springer from New Lebanon and Mrs Moser at the Car rithers. D B Fisher named superintendent at New Bedford. Bro Pinnick finishes Kingsley meeting and heads to Providence on the 9th. Charley Norris may seek wider roads. New Bedford gains workers. local scenery changing. Floyd Burton cites Andy Borders horse with Dr Lisman to exhibit. head 384 inches, shoe 20 inches, about 19 hands high. Elmer Thomas moves to the Station and Ora Sims fills his old place. W A Vail moves in with O P Badger. others unsettled. Drake relocates to Merom. John York to move into Drake’s former home.
Jon Wood, son of W L Wood, has been ill. Marie Hinkle of Sullivan visited Sunday. Dr Chas Wood and wife left for Chicago. Frank French transacted business in Sullivan. Mr Jackson Hinkle was sick part of last week. Rev Dorsey holds meetings at Fletcher's Chapel. Woods and family of Bicknell visited last week. Marie Asbury and Stella Branson visited. Mrs S H McMullen and S J Heap have been ill. James Branson and Mrs Sarah Kirkham went to Pensacola Florida Sunday.
Community updates from Shelburn featuring visits by Billy Mills and Charley Burnett, illnesses, a mule accident at the mine, and church league activities. Birthdays for J P Siner and P S Taylor. F and AM lodge social and a Master Mason raise. Basketball doubleheader results at Red Men’s hall and upcoming games for Farmersburg and Shelburn teams.
Community news covers public health updates with Mrs. Ellis improving Mrs. Booker ill with cancer and Uncle Beck very sick. Protracted M E Church meeting begins next Sunday. Social events include Miss Matson hosting friends and visits by Ike Douthitt family and Mr. Cade. State of health rumors and a spring Normal led by Prof. Riggins, plus the death of Mrs. Dide Land from consumption and burial at Indian Prairie.
A brief Harlem Life exchange tests love inequality with a suggested reversal of fortune. A fiancée asks if tender affection would persist if wealth were swapped, prompting a reflective challenge about enduring devotion beyond material status.
A Chicago News item accuses a man of buying beer with money his wife earned doing laundry, describing a moral lapse that provokes community outrage and scandal.
A quip contrasts aging with preference for quiet warmth over sleigh riding. Henry asks how to tell when a man grows old, John responds that aging begins when he would rather sit by the fire than go sleigh riding.
In a brief quoted exchange, Perdita questions a sudden moment while Constance notes a lack of nerve amid a stutter from a male speaker, reflecting on tension and hesitation reported by the Chicago Record-Herald.
Lord Kitchener reports ongoing Boers actions as news from the field. A gang halted a Southern train near Branceville South Carolina, with no crew harmed. A St. Louis delegation asks Ohio for 300600 dollars to fund a Pach Exposition exhibit. Two prospectors near Neihart Montana report a pure silver deposit.
Reports from the period note Judge Taft as civil Governor of the Philippines reaching Washington. Other items mention Hugo Mehr an anarchist death by his own hand in Paterson New Jersey and various political and violent incidents of the era.
A nationwide plan would unify major glucose producers under New Jersey law. The report notes the move aims to standardize operations across markets and regulatory environments.
The week reports 305 business failures in the United States, against 202 last week. Norfolk Virginia suffered a $500000 fire at the Atlantic Hotel among destroyed buildings while other grim notes include hangings in Corsicana Texas and Portland Oregon.
A judge denies a motion for a new trial and sentences Jim Howard to life imprisonment.
Reports detail a 40000 dollar blaze at the When Clothing house in Indianapolis, half Mentone Indiana's business district burned worth 50020 dollars, and extensive mar ine disasters from European gales. A Austrian race riot left two dead. The Ways and Means panel backs a war tax cut bill while McKinley's funeral expenses face 6415 dollars. A Ky bride age sixteen drowned. Gen. Wood urges Cuban sugar concessions. One thousand Maoris volunteer for garrison duty in the British Empire.
A ship ties to the New Orleans wharf and its bedding clothes and cushions are moved to a quarantine shed. Items enter three large steam cylinders fifty feet long eight feet wide where dry heat at 180 degrees and moist heat at 230 degrees disinfect fabrics under six to eight pounds of pressure. After thirty minutes to an hour racks emerge as rapid evaporation dries the items and preserves the fabrics.
A large barn owned by AHie Powell in northwest Wabash burned completely at dawn. Six fine horses died in the blaze, were burned to death, and the structure was destroyed. No injuries reported. Firefighters fought the flames through the morning.
O O Knoy a Big Four fireman fell from his engine at Earl Park and died instantly. He lived in Indianapolis and left a wife and two children.
Pueblo Mexico February 4 state government has banned bull fighting deeming it barbarous and demoralizing to the lower classes.
A neighbor opts to subscribe others to the Union, promising access to all local and regional news. The action highlights the paper as essential for keeping informed about community events, politics, and daily updates.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a product or label bearing a signature theme and brand phrase. Details are unclear but imply a marketing label or packaging note with references to "Chey" and bought items.
Wheat prices for No 2 red and longberry range around 8 sc per bushel with Corn No 2 white and mixed grades cited. Oats No 2 mixed and white quote around 49 to 61 cents. Cattle steady near 225.95 to 265.65, Hogs firm about 4 50 to 6 30, Sheep 2 to 3 75, Lambs 2 50 to 5 25.
Market notes show cattle active with feeder quotes around 7.25 dollars and 2.25 to 4.40 for feeders. Hog prices steady near 4.00 while sheep hold around 3.25 to 3.65 per hundredweight. Lambs remain steady near 3.0 up to 6.15.
Market brief notes cattle steady not at 3.60 and 6.20 for hogs quiet at 5 b.in. sheep slow at 2.50 to 4.40, lambs steady at 4.25 to 6.60. Reads as a livestock price roundup with multiple animal categories and quoted ranges.
The bulletin lists cattle and sheep pricing with steady to firm bids. Hog prices are quoted at 5.00 with a 0.50 move, lambs at 38.00 with 3.35 change, and sheep at 4.25 with 4.70, while Gattic-Steady holds at 3.60.
Wheat cash 83 cents May 87 cents per bushel. Corn No 2 cash 601? Oste No. Sough 453g. See details unclear. market tones indicate price quotes and active bids without clear context.
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