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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1908
Page
4
Local residents greet relatives from Chandler and Clay City. Ter exposed visitors from Terre Haute, Shelburn, Cass, Merom, and Blooming ton attend gatherings. A funeral, meetings, pancake supper, and a Christmas tour unfold as community members travel, host, and celebrate year end.
John Skinner, a horse trader, attacked Sullivan barber Hayworth after a dispute over hats during a film. Hayworth and friends beat Skinner, who then stabbed him with a knife. Marshal Botts detained Skinner but allowed him to escort the two ladies home. Skinner fled and remains at large. Hayworth escaped serious injury.
A Terre Haute dispatch reports John Snail 28 of Sullivan beaten by a street car company employee in Terre Haute last night. He lies in St. Anthony's hospital with a fractured skull and is not expected to live. Snail was intoxicated and resisted leaving the car at Terre Haute. the assailant street car man conducted the beating. No local knowledge of Snail bears the signature.
The readable fragments reference a phrase about a purchase or promise. No clear events, names, dates, or organizations are identifiable to form a complete news item.
Fannie Hughes and Messrs Batey and Abel plan extensive improvements to the Globe Theatre to launch a premier vaudeville show with moving pictures. They join the Lyric and Varieties circuit in Terre Haute and aim to attract a thriving local audience soon. W T Mellott and family spent holidays at their Me lott home and expect to return today.
Farmersburg on December 31 reports four new stockholders joining the private bank. Hartley Bennett Fred B Lash of Farmersburg and Addison Elihu Drake with Fairbanks acquired interests. Original founders included P L Combs O W Oliphant N R Bennett Pierce Moffat Charles Bennett and Charles Moffatt. Officers elected for the coming year are Addison Drake president Fred B Lash vice president P L Combs cashier and O W Oliphant assistant cashier.
The postmaster general disallowed claims of M. L. Seifert at Cummings for 6.65 and J. P. McBride at Caledonia for 7.95 for burglaries in the past year.
The young son of A. A. McGowan living two miles east of New Lebanon was kicked in the face by a horse yesterday evening and severely injured all his teeth were knocked out.
John A Stark to Fred E Norton lot 16 Glenns ist add Shelburn 600 Josiah Standley to Thos D Bowen land in Cass 50 Mary E Osborn to Clovis Racquet 20 acres in Cass 1464 Thos J Parks to Hugh Cuthbert 12 acre in Cass 30 Thos J Parks to Harry Mercer Lizzie Watson to Jno M Lemon 18 75 acres in Haddon 1400 Chas R Fairfield to C Guy Sparks pt lot 80 Merom 100 Abigail Tharpe to Sarah E Ridge way pt lot 6 W W Brenton s add Carlisle 1 Aliie J McCoy et al to Perley Johnson land in Curry 2321 J P Johnson to Jno V Rogers et al land in Curry 1260 Mary A Wolfe to Andrew J Fischer 10 acres in Haddon 300
Chronology notes a Farmersburg marshal facing murder trial and acquittal. Reunion plans for Union Christian College at Merom. Gill township approves 7000 dollar school improvements. county oil field activity includes Jamison and Harvey Gill drill sites. Frank Aydelotte named to Indiana State University faculty. Sullivan contracts Harris Pump for water wells in Busseron bottoms. Roy Wilson sought for wire desertion. Local church buys 2000 dollar pipe organ. William Spillman addresses county farmers at court house. Cass township man badly injured on a colt. Dr James Billman injured alighting from interurban car. Edward Lemen dies in Nebraska from a staircase accident. Claude McKissick mine subsidence damages. Fairbanks township remonstrance puts area on dry list. Frank Mahan awarded 2000 dollars damages against Hymera Coal. Body of Charles Clark found in Wabash near Brightlight. Lex Cavins appointed deputy in Indiana attorney general office. Perry Botts and Otho Springer buy north half of Hunt building. Sarah Webster sues for breach of promise. Mrs Effie Nesbit dies suddenly. William Trigg forgery charge dismissed. Property dispute in Gill township settled. (Continued next week)
Shelburn notes the old year skates out and the new one skates in at the Colliseum tonight. Local residents return from holidays in Elizabethtown Terre Haute Jasonville and Texas while new kitchen staff joins Laurent's restaurant. Delegates named for Hamilton township Democrats to district convention at Linton with discussion on Sullivan banks and a prosecutor race expected.
Mrs Elizabeth Jane Lester celebrated her 78th birthday on Christmas day at the residence of John F Patton one mile south of Staffordshire. About 35 relatives and friends gathered at noon with baskets and a bountiful dinner. She received many nice and useful presents. She is the wife of John F Lester Sr and they were married 58 years on October 11 1907.
Local notes report a protracted meeting beginning at Walker's Chapel next Sunday night. Several residents, including Miss Laughead and sister, hold rooms in the Old Springer property and John Webb's baby remains ill for several days. Dr Gill and John McNaughton shared dinner, Prof Arthur Allen of Kansas, longago a teacher here, is visiting friends. Capt Springer marks 97 guests at his Golden wedding on the 23rd with three attendees from 50 years ago. Dr Lisman and wife contemplate a trip Southland around January 14. Rev McNaughton and wife attended Graysville Mason Eastern Star installation and dinner last Friday. Joe Banghaman serves as second man at the I B depot. Wendell Cotton of De Pauw, Sheridan Col., will visit John McNaughton. Dan Prose has been confined to the...
Mrs Eno hosted a family dinner with five children and thirteen grandchildren on Christmas Day. Mary Manning visited Mrs Claire Asbury in Sullivan. J W Watson and family shared turkey at Dave Watsons. Bertha Haines visited her parents over the weekend. Keann Medsker and family spent Sunday at Tom Carruthers. Dr Durham was in Terre Haute. Warren Watson visited his brother in law George Pickard in Switz City. Mrs Durham and son James were in Sullivan on Monday.
Francis E. Walters, former Sullivan County assessor, died in Brownsville Texas from heart trouble after a period of ill health. He had left for Texas about ten days earlier for his health. His remains will arrive Friday for burial, with Sullivan lodge of Masons in charge of the funeral. He was well known throughout the county.
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