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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1919
Page
1
Private Harris delivers tales from the front proving the Yankee doughboy is hailed as a war hero. The column emphasizes courage and sacrifice amid battlefield reports and homefront reflections.
A World War I era postcard narrative from Lerouville France on Saturday January 11 1919 recounts Bucks at play with pay day bets and a humorous barbering miscommunication involving Kansas City officer Pat Flaherty in a French Frog barbershop as the writer notes tricks of cards and francs amid army debts and pay day rituals.
Andy McClanahan greets a stranger who claims to be Judge Johnson Cochran of Lincoln Nebraska. Cochran and McClanahan recall schooldays at the Farmersburg seminary and Sullivan in the early 1870s under Captain Crawford. Cochran, a lawyer with oil interests in Kansas and Wyoming, is a son of Civil War soldier Captain John H. Cochran.
Pat endures a comic shaving spree as a sly Frog barber slathers soap into his mouth nose and ears then presses him to finish the shave. A playful crowd watches while Pat dodges the lather and jokes about Bordeaux and a 1919 bath.
Thomas Pogue, longtime Turman township resident and ancestor of Pogue's Run namesake Jas. Pogue, died at noon aged 87 from age related illness. Funeral Friday at his home conducted by Rev. T. L. Jackson, with burial at Crown Hill Indianapolis. Survived by widow, son Frank Pogue of Xenia Illinois, and daughter Mrs T L Jackson.
J B Miller Walter Routt James M Sinclair Roy Anderson and J B Petrie of the Mutual Truck Company attended the Chicago truck show last week where one truck was exhibited. They returned home highly encouraged by expert praise of the machine's construction. Roy Anderson and James A Petrie of Chicago arrived Monday with the truck after a seventeen hour run from Chicago to Sullivan.
Henrietta Mann and daughter Mary F Mann sue Thomas H Mann in circuit court for partition of a large county farm. The will of Thomas J Mann directed division of personal property and real estate among the widow Henrietta Mann and the two children when the son came of age, with the estate managed by the widow.
M A Haddon acting for Monon Coal Co sold 636 acres in Cass township south of Caledonia to Ed P Snow and Joshua Beasley. The tracts include Perry Maxwell, Alexander Snow and Anderson Keene farms. Frank Starner sold his 120 acre Haddon township farm to Marion F Walters for $24 000 or 200 per acre and will give possession March 4. Walters had sold another farm southwest of the city months earlier as Starner retires to Indianapolis for health reasons.
John Laslie 23 a farmer and Grace Eskridge 21 both of Carlisle receive licenses. Lonnie Ritchie 22 a miner and Dora Lane 19 both of Sullivan obtain licenses. Ezra B. Kelley 42 a laborer and Lillie M. Wright 48 both of Dugger obtain licenses.
The sale of delinquent property at the court house Monday attracted few bidders. Of about 120 delinquent items, only forty were bid in.
Mrs. A. F. Wolfe formerly Lillie Parks of this city died last week at her Ogden Utah home. She was about thirty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Parks, born here, and moved west with her parents in childhood. Her father M O Parks ran a local dry goods business. mother was Florence Stansil. She was niece of Mrs. Sylvester Beasley of Terre Haute.
Elder Jesse M. Wilson, 85, a pioneer Church of Christ preacher in Vigo county, died Friday at his Riley area home. Funeral held Sunday at Liberty Church near Riley conducted by Rev. Mathias of Farmersburg. Survived by four children including John A. Wilson, a farmer northeast of the city.
A letter from Set W B Sturgeon reports W W Sturgeon’s son wounded near the Argon ne forest on October 16. He is recovering in hospital at Fort McHenry Maryland and says he is getting along nicely.
Mrs. Clyde O. Creager of Terre Haute says her husband Sgt Clyde O Creager has landed safely from France. He served in the 84th Division which sailed for France last September. He will be mustered out at Camp Taylor and expects to be home in a few weeks. He is a son of A B Creager of near Merom.
Arthur FE DeBaun appointed as special judge to try Indiana v Johnnie Myers of this city charged with keeping a house of ill fame. Case filed in city court and venue moved from Mayor Henry Smith. Myers operates a restaurant.
George A. Branson and Clarence M. Branson of Aberdeen file suit in Curry township to invalidate the will of Flossie E. Brownlee of New York City who died last October and was buried in Farmersburg. They accuse the will of fraud and duress, claiming she left only nominal sums to her brothers and a nephew while James M. Branson and Emma Branson receive the bulk of the estate. The case names James M. Branson executor Emma Branson and John Branson Atkinson as defendants.
The February circuit court term opens Monday February 17 with jurors to report Tuesday February 25. Drawn by Frank Conner and Joe K Smock, includes James N Weir Turman township John A Springer Gill Seth Hunt Fairbanks Gorse Lovelace Curry Chas Wonders Cass Howard Scott Hamilton Benjamin Willis Jefferson Frank Bolenbaugh Jackson George W Unger Haddon Alonzo K E Mitchell Cass Lexie O Robbins Hamilton Dick Dorothy Hymera Jackson township.
Sullivan County Masonic lodges plan a large gathering March 4 at the Masonic Hall to mark the blue lodge inspection by Herbert Graham grand instructor. Carlisle No 3 will exemplify the Entered Apprentice degree, Shelburn the Fellow Craft degree, and Sullivan lodge the Master Mason degree.
John Easter of Fairbanks township sues Paris Drake of Fairbanks township for $200 in circuit court over an August automobile crash at Wiley Payne crossing Curry township. Easter alleges Drake drove at about 40 miles per hour and collided with Easter’s machine.
Sullivan County soldiers from the 309th Ammunition Train, back in Camp Mills New York, report Roy Metcalf Edgar Bolinger and Frank Nitterhouse were moved to military police shortly before sailing and will stay in France.
Jesse McCracklin and Henry Ash of Shelburn arraigned on illegal liquor charges, fined 100 dollars each, and sentenced to six months at the penal farm. Both posted bond on appeal to the circuit court.
Members of Company B 309th Ammunition Train, Sullivan County boys who arrived from overseas duty in France, are at Camp Sherman Chillicothe Ohio and will be mustered out this week. A large number are expected home Friday.
Mrs. Mary Mathes reports a card from Corporal Fred Martin Battery F 327th field artillery saying he has landed in New York from Bordeaux France and will be home in two or three weeks
National chairman Will Hays delivered a lengthy eulogy at the Presbyterian church on Theodore Roosevelt. He traced Roosevelt life and achievements from early efforts to his presidential leadership, highlighting his preparedness and diplomacy milestones and quoting Roosevelt on living life to the hilt.
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