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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1920
Page
1
The council last night approved a petition to erect a new filling station with a budget of sixty thousand dollars. The action clears the way for construction and local utility connections.
Tax Commissioners will grant permission for a 5000 bond for dive protection. City Council last night approved two building permits toward Sullivan improvements including a Standard Oil service station on Jackson and Main and a greenhouse on South Court Street adjacent to the Briggs building. The Murphy property at the corner is split into three lots. transfers involve Flora Cavins, Dr. L. A. Stewart, W. H. Eaton, John Mattix and J Turman. Standard Oil’s Roy Coffman spearheaded a 60000 investment for Sullivan this year, about 306000 for the service station and other upgrades yet unconfirmed. Richmond plans a 4800 greenhouse on the Briggs lot, with relocation once buildings finish. Council also directed a survey of Sroud Street improvements and ongoing cost estimates. state board bond approval for 5000 for dive protection is anticipated. A Mutual truck chassis with fire equipment will form the modern fire truck, heading to the factory.
Local lumber dealers forecast a strong 1920 with Sullivan and countywide building activity rising after March 1. Last year saw record repair and new construction, and 1920 is expected to top 1919’s 50 percent gain as builders start work on homes barns and other structures. Index Nation Co in Sullivan finishes a new front in the Long Warren building and prepares interior work as it moves into modern headquarters within two weeks.
Eli Hays of Shelburn, a coal miner, sustained a severe skull fracture when a jack pipe on a cutting machine flew off at the Mildred mine northeast of here. He was taken to County Hospital, regained consciousness before anesthesia, and doctors hoped the operation would save his life with a good chance of recovery. Hays is single and lives with his brothers in Shelburn.
A Sherman theater charity program screens the feature The Way Back plus two reels of war work by Salvation Army Red Cross and others. Admission is 50 cents Sunday afternoon with proceeds supporting the Elks Fund for training disabled American war heroes. The program highlights the McIntyre Sisters and other exclusive footage from the trenches.
Wheelamilton Township Mariners Institute will be held at Sherman Theatre Friday February 13 with instructors R A Oge and Mrs Carl Putile under Purdue University. Sessions will be held morning and afternoon and a general course on farming and women’s farm work will be covered. Ross Campbell president and Perry Trotetler secretary oversee arrangements.
At a South State Street gathering with Mrs. P. A. Barco yesterday the Armenian Relief Fund gathered 86 dollars 80 cents. Barco gave an exhaustive review of Undying Fire by H. G. Wells and spurred much discussion.
Fred F Bays wins six prizes at the Indianapolis Poultry Show held in Tomlinson Hall last week. Buff Rocks took first cock third hen and first cockerel while Rhode Island Reds earned second hen second cockerel and first pullet.
The Sullivan County Farmers Association announces a weeklong drive in Hamilton township. Meetings are planned at Mason school house on Monday and Tuesday, Benson school on Tuesday night, Bridge school on Wednesday, Bailey School on Thursday, all at the same locations.
The February term petit jury list includes Isaac J. Adams Haddon township Arthur Snavely Sullivan James A Forbus Jackson township Sylvan Davis Cass township Benjamin F McClanahan Farmersburg Lewis Eaton Hamilton township Ira E Fuller Fairbanks township Arthur M Kaufman Gill township Noble Badger Turman township John W Driver Jefferson township Thomas Stuck Curry township John W Brown Jefferson township The December term convenes February 23 with jurors to report February 24.
A large gas well near Pimento in Sullivan County yielded 1,100,000 cubic feet in 24 hours after an initial depth of 95 feet. Ohio Oil Company representatives visited the site as Brazil investors pooled leases near Farmersburg and Pimento. Additional wells are planned, with rumors of a second oil sand and deep tests hoped for this spring and summer.
Harry Conrad of Jasonville is in the county hospital receiving treatment for an infected hand.
Sullivan County Farmers Association launches a countywide membership drive through February 22 under Indiana Federation of Farmers Associations guidance. Wayne O Adams promotes benefits of joining, with meetings across townships and a $5 annual dues, allocating funds to county township and state bodies.
William Gerrard husband of Miss Laeile Rose died after influenza and pneumonia. Mrs Gerrard and two children were ill. Mrs Laura Close cared for the family in Peoria where relatives Miss Lora Roses and Mrs William Armstrong traveled to attend the funeral.
Mrs W L Mord learns her sister in law Ates Kuester Ashbury of Spokane Wash died Friday night after a short illness. She had attended the funeral of her father in law Col A P Asbury at Farmersburg earlier. Survived by husband two sons a baby a mother a brother and two sisters. Burial held in Spokane.
Lemuel A Barcus aged 61 died last Wednesday at his home in Dugger. Survived by widow and children Floyd Opal Garnet Lilie and brothers and sisters Nellie May Terre Tlaute Bert Barcus Greenleaf Idaho Jas Burriss Heber Springs Ark Geo Barcus Philippine Islands Anna Reed Dugger John Barcus.
Mrs. Lewis O. Chowning of Dugger died after a two week illness from pneumonia. She was the daughter of Mrs. Kittie Hedrick and the late J. W. Hedrick, a Dugger merchant. Survived by husband and two daughters Dolores and Debra, two brothers Eugene and Max Hedrick, and mother Kittie Hedrick. The couple planned to move to Sullivan where he would enter real estate.
Jack Gooth of the Meuhler Boothe Drug firm purchased the residence in which he lives from J F Douthitt.
Mrs. Ed Springer and widow Mary J. McClanahan are in Wichita for burial services after Mary J. McClanahan died at Mrs. Springer's Garden City home last week.
Mary J. McClanahan widow of James C. McClanahan lived in Sullivan county most of her life. She died in Garden City Kansas after a brief illness aged about 86. She left two children Andy McClanahan and Mrs Ed Springer with a sister Mrs Lansberry Riggs. Funeral services were held at the local Methodist church with burial in Center Ridge cemetery.
One hundred fourteen cases are on the docket for the February term of Sullivan Circuit Court which opens next Monday with docket calling and a hearing in the Sullivan Manufacturing Company versus Wilfred Coal Company. Sixteen state cases are scheduled, most for February 24 to 27, including disputes involving Terre Haute residents Chork and George Gosnell charged with stealing tires from W D Bolinger, a Greene county case accusing Lucien Jones of bribery related to a teacher he hired as township trustee, and multiple divorce hearings set for February 21 and late February through April.
The local Modern Woodmen lodge elected C. M. Wendersoon as head and listed members including Guy O. Wall Chas Crawford Catlin Wilbur Ruddell Milt Pinkston Perry Maxwell Marion Shade Cecil Nash A Lovelace Lex Walls Tom Kenneth Hinkle Graham Heady Chas Clark Arthur Hunt Roy Curtis Fred Carty Lawrence Ford Clyde Heady Charles Hartfelder with officers Court Nichols Counselor Marion Shade Banker Ed Wall Adviser James Hagg Clerk. Refreshments followed the work and activity is expected to rise in coming months.
James Jacob Mason and Geneva Josephine Nelson were married last Wednesday in Robinson Illinois by Squire Walter Bartlett with friends from Palestine. Dr Wayne Frakes and Dorothy Davis were wed Wednesday at the bride’s home with Effie Douthitt in attendance. Frakes had prior ties to Sullivan and Douthitt.
Mrs Gertrude Ross Kam of Wildwood New Jersey is visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Andy McClanahan following the death of her grandmother Mrs Mary McClanahan. She is presently ill with a severe cold.
Felix Jones, new Sullivan county road superintendent, named twenty district supervisors with all accepting except one. Fifteen former supervisors were reappointed, new appointees in districts 4 5 15 17 and 18. Each supervisor must post a 1000 bond with the county auditor. Majority of bonds received. sixty days to complete appointments. Jones plans spring survey and temporary repairs to tackle mud holes before outlining a full program.
The Sullivan Union lists the largest slate of public sales yet, with D R Newkirk, Karl Boles, I R Rooksberry, F R Robbins, Corwin Phillips, BE Deiss, T OA Eslinger, Mrs Emma Werner and unions at Union Christian College Farm among others. Sales start at 10 am and feature hogs cattle corn hay autos household goods and farm implements. The Big Duroc Jersey sale by A N L Burton & Sons is set under cover at Graysville on Feb 23.
John J. Brown of the Evansville district Indiana Federation of Farmers Associations will speak at the Haddon township farmers association membership drive meeting tonight and will attend the opening of the Haddon township farmers institute in Carlisle tomorrow. Brown will speak at the institute.
Papers for the commitment of Mike Buckner, a colored resident of this city, to the Southern Hospital for the insane at Evansville have been received by the county clerk and Buckner will be taken there this week.
Edsil Bostock spending winter in Phenix Arizona took a car trip to several parts of the state. He called on Will Burks manager of a hotel in Douglas. Bostock notes a brief visit to old Mexico during the journey.
The Sullivan County primary in May sees few Democratic aspirants for sheriff, treasurer, prosecuting attorney, surveyor, and coroner. Names floated include Roy Bannister, Walter Cunningham, Frank Wible, Ed Kelly, John S. Taylor, Bill Sisson, and Newt Botts amid questions about candidacy and economics shaping the race.
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