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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1916
Page
5
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture the article notes rabbits breed rapidly and can seriously harm nurseries and orchards by gnawing bark. It endorses fencing with woven wire netting and warns about poison baits tree washes and other methods while briefly outlining twig blight control through pruning and removing diseased wood.
Beekeeping guidance on winter stores stresses safety margins and insulations to reduce losses. Recommends at least thirty pounds of stores, prefer honey, warns against honeydew and proposes sugar sirup with tartaric acid as needed. Explains how better stores reduce dysentery and heat loss, noting 7 percent loss goal and practical feeding timing after first frost. Also includes fence stretching tip from Ohio Farmer about splicing different fence heights.
The Carlisle area notes a county board reshuffle with John W. Walters Sr. as successor to the late James W. Bishop, plus renewed terms for Ed Dailey and other officials. A Sullivan County Loan and Trust Co. reorganization elects Hix W. Davis as president, Fred F. Bays as VP, with plans for new security features. A Carlisle history sketch marks founding around 1815, block houses, Indian hostilities, railroad impact, incorporation in 1856, and enduring churches and schools.
The University of Wisconsin agricultural experiment station unveils Bulletin 249 describing a soil acidity test using zinc sulfide and acid to release hydrogen sulfide. Lead acetate paper measures color against a chart to gauge acidity, claimed to be more positive, detect active acidity, unaffected by carbonic acid, and quick and cheap to perform.
A local option vote was held in Jackson township across five precincts with dry and wet factions active. Ten licensed saloons were listed including four in Hymera and others at Wilfred Blue Goose Jackson Hill Don't Worry and near Coalmont.
Turman township plans a Friday evening open house for the new Graysville high and Middletown high gym floor, a 6 30 basketball curtain raiser, and a Better Farming Club meeting. Purdue backed lecture by Oakes F Hall on Rural Church and Country Life follows the game with no admission fee.
Robert Carrithers of Cincinnati Ohio visits his parents Mr and Mrs E G Carrithers and has gone to New York in the interest of the Trade Journals Company where he is employed.
Frank Gray, who traveled to Florida recently, is now visiting Cuba. Mrs. Harry Kelly and her son Harry Jr returned from Erie Kansas following the death of Mrs. Kellys father Major H L Harbaugh.
The town history notes a church founded in 1866 and rebuilt recently, the Holiness church established in 1900, and Catholic families using the Roberts property across from the Presbyterian church with a priest from Sullivan. It praises Carlisle as a good town in a good country filled with good people and urges residents to contribute to the community.
County records show full disbursements across multiple towns and boards. Names listed include Gilbert Beckett Hymera clerk, Thomas Jefferson Shelburn school, S H Montgomery Shelburn clerk, Oliphant Farmersburg treasurer, Berlingmier Farmersburg clerk, W W Harbaugh Sullivan school board, Robert Gracoasil Sullivan city treasurer, K H Dagger Dagger town, Tad Gat Dagger clerk, O E Purcell Carlisle school, O V Angel Carlisle town, Earl Coyner Mero clerk.
Five couples received marriage licenses. Earl Frederick, 23, miner, and Mary Jane Beemis, 24, of Carlisle. William R. Lund, 28, farmer, and Ruby J. St.Clair, 22, of Sullivan. Francie A. VanGilder, 29, farmer, and Roxie E. Stevens, 29, of Fairbanks. Oscar A. McClure, 24, barber, and Viola I. Bensinger, 20, of Carlisle. Thomas McKinney, 36, farmer, and Goldie M. Nash, 24, of Paxton.
Mrs Irvin Scott and her daughter Bertha have left for Riverside California to spend the remainder of the winter there.
Announcement that Oscar R. Rich runs for Sheriff of Sullivan County on the Democratic ticket in the upcoming March 7, 1916 primary.
Fred F Bays gave notice of appeal to the supreme court from a circuit court ruling in Curry township. The pending case challenges application of the Corrupt Practices Act to local option elections. Indictments target the Torre Hunte Brewing Company and The Cook Brewing Company among others.
Proclamations of mortgage and divorce actions filed. Julia May Mahan vs Louis O Ma Lin court for divorce. Ida Tuell sues George Homann and Bessie Homann over tax payments. Multiple complaints indicate civil actions and property interests in dispute.
The Rev. John Houpt aged 76, a Civil War veteran and retired Methodist minister, died Friday at his daughter Mrs. Jesse Daniels home near Merom after a period of illness due to old age. He had been in poor health for some time.
Gault Pleasant of Sioux City Iowa visited his parents Mr and Mrs G W Pleasant at Merom last week. He returned to Sioux City Friday and was accompanied as far as Terre Haute by his mother who will visit her daughter Mrs Fred Boyer there.
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