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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1913
Page
6
Physician and surgeon offering special attention to eye diseases. Glasses fitted at the Briggs Building with office and residence contact details. Office phone 263 and residence 146.
George Buff and W P Stratton Attorneys at Law offer careful handling of all legal business. Practice in all courts with special attention to collections. Located in the Citizens Trust building.
Advertisement for attorney Isaac T T Kalley offering prompt handling of legal business including collections and probate. Financing available on long or short terms. Office located on the ground floor in Sullivan State Bank building.
Attorney at law announces practice in all courts with prompt attention to business entrusted. Offices in Suites 4 and 5 Citizens Trust Blog.
Attorney W L Laurent based in Shelburn Indiana appears in this line of the legal notices section with old telephone listing 75 03. The entry identifies his profession and contact as part of professional directories.
A G McNabb announces his business will receive prompt and careful attention and that he will practice in all state courts and any other courts requesting his services. Office located in Citizens Trust Co Building.
A. Price is identified as a notary public located at Hunt's Drug Store on the West Side.
Jas R Brown J H Schroeder operate Brown and Schroeder Abstracters of Title owners of Sullivan County’s sole abstract books. They specialize in examining and perfecting titles with thorough care, noting their long history and unique position in local real estate services.
Chas. D. Hunt and Gilbert W. Gambill announce they will receive and promptly attend to all business entrusted to them. Offices located over National Bank at the corner of Washington and Main streets and on the north side square upstairs. They will practice in all courts where services are required.
J F Scherb operates an insurance real estate and rental agency in Sullivan Indiana with Hunt and Gambill. The listing notes services in property rental sales and insurance offerings under the partnership.
Local Carlisle police on night duty must carry six inch leather time clocks under their coats and strike them hourly at street posts using keys from boxes. Previously clocks sat at fixed posts. officers complain clocks are unwieldy spoil uniforms and hinder appearance while some officers slept on night duty.
The Department of Agriculture reports September 1 price comparisons show potatoes up 56 percent from a year earlier and barley hay oats rye and buckwheat all higher. Corn chickens flax butter eggs wheat and cotton mostly lower with cotton down 18.1 percent and eggs down 10.3 percent.
In Shreveport Louisiana James Donovan of booster parish died after following a friend's earache remedy using dynamite. He reportedly kneaded a lump of explosive and, as he raised a match to light it, an explosion blew his head from his shoulders.
An investigation at the Illinois Industrial School uncovered cruelty to girls kept in small dungeon-like cells with no ventilation. Detainees reportedly endured extreme heat up to 120 degrees, bread and water rations, and confinement for extended periods, prompting officials to call the treatment inhuman.
In Norwalk Connecticut William Lassen driver of a motor truck was instantly killed when his vehicle, a large steel truck, collided with a New York New Haven and Hartford passenger train from South Norwalk to Danbury. The truck was demolished and the locomotive pilot torn off. The top of Lassen’s head was cut off.
An infant named Willie Schultz carried a two ounce vial of carbolic acid to his mother, who swallowed it and died within thirty minutes. Authorities suspect the mother was mentally irresponsible due to prolonged hardship and invalid status.
Jackson Tennessee Mayor C. E. Griffin was indicted for public intoxication by the Grand Jury. Magistrate J. T. Rushing, based at the courthouse, was indicted on the same charge.
Horace Gibbs, a white farmer, was killed in a firefight between ten men near Caddo Oklahoma. Five white men claim they were fired on by five negroes, while the black group says the whites were the aggressors.
A fierce forest fire in Landsberg Germany causes $2 million in damage. An artillery captain and his horse died while battling the flames.
Advice on reception etiquette covers serving punch from a large bowl into small glasses. Handshakes are optional beyond the receiving party. A few intimate friends should introduce strangers to two or three guests to ease socializing. Self introductions are acceptable under conditions, and pleasant remarks should praise the event, written in a sober dining room setting.
Host an elegant outdoor style indoors with rustic pine and hunter green decor. Use antler motifs, tartan runners, lanterns, and muted charger plates. Serve a Dutch lunch themed menu with hearty meats, rye breads, pickled vegetables, cheese, stout or dark ale, and pale ale for contrast, plus root vegetables and fruit tarts for dessert.
A simple Dutch supper with plain food and a floral centerpiece is suggested. The menu includes camp fare like broiled bacon eggs baked potatoes flapjacks and coffee. Invitations request men in huntsman garb and ladies in shirtwaist suits for a casual yet novel gathering.
The junior class will host a February 14 reception for the seniors. Invitations should go out soon, and refreshments should be simple with about two courses. Suggestions include a pretty table decoration and easy decor ideas suitable for a school event.
The groom pays for the carriage to and from the church, the wedding ring, bouquet for the bride and attendants, the best man and usher favors, and the marriage license. The bride's family covers the wedding guests' entertainment and all other costs.
A reader asks if the groom’s parents should send cards to the bride’s parents when they do not know each other. The answer: yes they should send a note of welcome to the prospective daughter in law and it is a courteous gesture to invite her to visit.
Genevieve asks about proper refreshment for a two oclock June wedding and whether a bride should wear a veil. The guidance: chicken salad sandwiches coffee ice cream and wedding cake fit for day or evening weddings, and a bride should wear a veil as a special privilege. June is noted as the month of roses and brides.
Proposer suggests a white themed booth titled Handkerchief Booth. Attendants wear white handkerchief caps and aprons. Create center stringed balls from handkerchiefs to hang around the booth, cut off as sold. Background features white crepe paper dipped in mucilage and covered with diamond dust.
An article describes homemade fancy dress ideas for winter carnivals. It details a Folly dress with a yellow and blue palette, a demonized boys costume using pointed edges and two colored stockings, and a milkmaid outfit for a six year old upward. It emphasizes cheap materials and practical accessories.
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