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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1903
Page
8
Our Correspondents report in Prosperity Daggers town news. Looming items include B and L capital rise to 50000, coal options north of town, a new K P hall, incomplete depot plans, school expansion debates, and a public question about who is the citizen behind recent scrutiny.
The Graysville column reports cold weather straining fuel, local visits by Virgil Penny and David Chastaine, a sick spell for Flora Sanford, and the dismissal of scarlet fever patients. It notes church meetings, a drowned boy near Hutsonville, new residences planned for spring, a rural telephone project, and upcoming weddings and events including a George Washington birthday program.
Miss Josie Ring returns from Terre Haute as Prairie Creek reports two mild smallpox cases. A strict quarantine is maintained to prevent a wider outbreak while Rev. Daughterty restarts Sunday meetings, planned to continue for a week.
Will Crary and sons from Terre Haute visited Sunday. Claud Johns and wife also from Terre Haute visited Mrs Johns parents here last week. Dora Smock, Curryville teacher, spent Sunday here. Mattie Evans and Minnie Manwaring visited in Shelburn Friday. Stark Neale of Terre Haute spent Sunday here. Otis Asbury stayed with Miss Rose of Sullivan Sunday evening. Maggie Kelley, visiting James Crawford and wife, remained here.
S M Patton spent part of last week in Indianapolis. W L McCord visited Rockville with family. J Cristof Spencer visits sister Mrs Lydia Spear. Benton Skinner returned from Oklahoma. Beulah Bennett of Shelburn visited grandparents W H Lyons and wife. Mrs Greene of Patoka staying with daughter Mrs F Bundy. Graves and Mrs Jane wed at bride home last Thursday. Rev Bundy officiated. Baptist meeting continues. Duckworth saloon removed. Wm Smith to open a restaurant in the building. W Ring of Farmersburg was in Hymera last week.
Next Saturday and Sunday are the regular meeting times at Good Hope. There will be preaching Friday night. Silas Hammond is quite sick at this writing. Harrison Hawkins attended church at Pleasantville last Sunday. Ciell Leach is making rapid progress on his new house. Frank McClanahan and wife visited in this neighborhood last week. Oscar Hawkins and wife spent last week at John Hawkins.
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