Meeting of Citizens in Terre Haute Endorses Interurban Plan
Delegates from Terre Haute to Olney gathered at the Commercial Club to back a proposed interurban line. A committee was formed to study feasibility with a mass meeting set for February 27 at Robinson Illinois. Speakers from Merom Graysville and Robinson voiced strong local support and urged right of way agreements.
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Terre Haute
Olney
A. G. Morris
Vico County
Robinson, Ll
A. Herz
C. S. Jones
Robinson
Spencer F. Ball
Brazil
G. W. Nowlin
Graysville
M. H. Piety
Prairie Creek
Merom
Col
Lege
J. J. Parker
Ward
C. J. Jones
Union Christian College
Merom Bluffs
J. W. Daugherty
Professor Ward
Merom Bluff
Julius Hoseman
George McNabb
James Dodd
David L. Watson
Vincennes
Landis
Baker
Dr. Mountz
Chauncey
Alexander Britton
Amity
R. G. Smithwick
Paker
A. H. Joes
Ben Shively
Bradstreet
Haute de Egates
E. Oteysoon
Coun
Ellor Vo Reed
Crawford Councy Fort
Alestine
J. W. Leaverton
H. O. Smith
Palestine
J. O. Pogue
Fairbanks
Second Largest Mortgage Filed in County
The county records show the second largest mortgage filed last Wednesday with W. L. Hunt as recorder. The $5,000,000 instrument covers lands and coal mines held by the Dering Coal Company, securing formation of a major coal combination. The 87 page document will be entered into the public record.
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Robert R. Hammond
Chisago
Dairy Coal Company
J. Wooley, Jr
Evansville
Mildred
Major Colins
Boizil
OK Colony Trust Company
Central Anion Telephone Company
Central Union Teephone Company
Dianevialis
W. L Hust
W. L. Hunt
Central Union Telephone Co
Dering Coal Company
Big Coal Combination
Funeral for Sullivan county pioneer John Ridgeway
John Ridgeway longtime Sullivan county resident died of heart trouble at his Fairbanks township home Friday night. Funeral services were Sunday at Drake church with Rev. G F McNaughton. interment in Pogue cemetery. Survived by wife Jerusha Agnes Rose, children Carsa Adams, Lora, Hervey, Otho, Harold, three sisters and three brothers, plus his aged mother and niece Sadie Drake. He was born January 13 1851 in Gill township and joined the Methodist church in New Lebanon before later affiliating with Kingsley chapel. He was widely known and highly regarded in the county.
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John Ridgeway
Fairbanks Township
Ridgeway
Drake Church
G. F. McNaughton
Pogue
Mr. Ridgeway
Sullivan County
Gill Township
Otho
Emily Ridgeway
No saloons in resident district sparks Sullivan ordinance
Sullivan Indiana residents push to curb liquor sales with a new ordinance. The measure bars intoxicating liquor sales in housing areas and confines sales to business districts near the E. T. H. station and town square. A Commercial Club forms to promote civic growth, with a February 15 meeting planned to finalize by laws.
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Levi B. Laich
Bass Warrington Street
Indiana Sothern Station
Washington Street
W. T. Dowhitt
A. G McNabb
Vremonistred Ag
Commisoners’ Court
Witen Son
Sullivan
Indiana
Indiana 1904 Deeds and Mortgages Report Summary
County recorder W. L. Hunt filed 1710 warranty and quit claim deeds with total consideration 2 289 788 7 including executors administrators commissioners and guardians deeds. Sheriffs deeds totaled 3 010 with total deeds 1727 and 2 292 798 in consideration. Mortgages on farms outside towns 606 totaling 797 323 and on lots 459 totaling 209 161. Total mortgages recorded 1065 amount 986 484. Mortgages satisfied 1904 outside town 247 totaling 406 611 and lots 135 totaling 81 099. Total satisfactions 328 amount 487 710.
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W. L. Hunt
Indiana Bureau of Statistics
Sullivan Residents Seek Warmth in Sunny South Resort
A Sullivan town census would show a drop in population as many residents spend the cold months in New Smyrna Florida. Names listed include Hoke Reed Mattix Crowder and Stratton families alongside Akin Cooper Price Humphreys and others. A party also left for a week in Cuba aboard a trip from New Smyrna.
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Sullivan
New Smyrna
Florida
Jacob F. Hoke
Jennie Thornhill
Emma Cowan
French Long
C.L. Davis
J. S. Reed
Fern Reed
John A. Mattix
Minnie Mattix
Irene Mattix
R. H. Crowder
Grace Crowder
J. C. Hoagland
Joseph P. Stratton
C. H. Stratton
W. E. Woods
Levi Price
Stone
J. M. Humphreys
Cuba
J. F. Hoke
C. L. Davis
Joe S. Reed
Bosstick Turman Wed Near Graysville in January Ceremony
Leonard A Bosstick and Avarilla W Turman married at the bride’s home two miles southwest of Graysville on Sunday afternoon January twenty ninth by Rev G F McNaughton. Attending were R J Turman father of the bride Ed Ross Flora Wattie and Hattie siblings of the bride Guy Cushman and Paula O'Brien and Paula Kleer of Terre Haute. Supper by Flora Phillips and Mattie Cushman.
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Graysville
G. F. McNaughton
Leonard A. Bosstick
Avarilla W.turman
R. J. Turman
Ross
Flora
Wattie
Hattie
Guy Cushman
Paula
John O’brien
Paula Kleer
Terre Haute
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C. U. Telephone Co
Ness District
Isixs
J. Sherman
A. D. Scott
Milton A. Haddon
James R. Riges Treasurry
Commercial Club
Court House
Recorder’s Report
The
State Bureau of Statistics
Carlisle
Linton
Bosstick-Turman
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