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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1919
Page
5
A crowded weekend in Sullivan and nearby areas features family visits church gatherings and social events. Residents like Mrs E J Yaeger travel to Oklahoma and Hampton Roads while O H Burke joins the Concrete Stave Silo Company in Bloomfield. Local sports prayer meetings and school institute activities are reported alongside numerous visits among the Marts Jewell Hood and Wyman families.
An advertisement extols internal remedies for catarrh, claiming local applications fail to reach the disease. The piece promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine and lists testimonials from Toledo makers. The page continues with social notes on flu outbreaks, travels, and local visits across Sullivan and nearby towns, with brief mentions of residents and a World War I poem excerpt.
Mrs. Jess Borders returned Saturday after a week with friends near Big Springs. O. H. Burke of Graysville was here on business earlier in the week. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. George Fuson went to Sullivan Friday. Drake church meetings closed Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Dickerson visited John Ramsen near Farmersburg Sunday. Rev. Mr. Huff was at Kingsley Sunday morning.
Sullivan R R 5 reports William Alsop returns to work at Whitset mine and Earl Alsop glad to be home after Camp eight months. Others, including Mr and Mrs C G French, Hiram Alsop, Ural Hayden, and Julian Powell, are busy with haying, carpentry, and farming tasks as neighbors visit and share news.
Mr and Mrs J G Brotaw plan to leave their farm near New Lebanon for Indianapolis while Paul Phillips and his family will live on the Brokaw farm Mrs Phillips is Brokaw's daughter John C French of Company B 308th Ammunition Train recently returned from overseas and was mustered out at Camp Sherman Rush Ridgeway of Carlisle a company mate arrived home Ivan Ridgeway remains overseas Miss Essie Wilson departed for Washington DC Elmer Thomas sold his South Court street home to Domby Mayfield and will move to Indianapolis where he takes a job with Vancamp Hardware Paul Phillips underwent hernia and appendicitis surgery at the county hospital and is recovering.
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