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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1918
Page
5
Fairbanks locals share visits and illness notes as neighbors call on families across the area. Reports include trips to Terre Haute and Greencastle, a new horse purchase, school events, and a tightened college calendar with a revised end of term.
Carrier Walton assisted during heavy snows and invited substitutes before good weather returns. Essie Welch shopped in Terre Haute and visited relatives. The Bowen child suffers la grippe pneumonia and throat trouble with Dr Payne attending. Paris Drake and Emerson Thomson fished the old river bed by ice. Roy Ransford visited Farmersburg on business. Aunt Sarah Johnson turned 92 on January 25 and remains in fair health. Two years ago Armsy Peacher found and addressed an egg. a Columbus, Ohio letter confirms it arrived.
Advertises a remedy for catarrhal deafness stating local applications fail and a constitutional treatment can restore the Eustachian tube function. Claims all cases cured by Cheney's Catarrhal Medicine with a $100 reward for any uncured case and offers free circulars from T P Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
Sullivan Indiana reports a local note list of social visits and daily life events. Families such as the French, Alsop, Harlow, and Jackson are seen visiting relatives around Carlisle Merom Station Paxton Pleasant and nearby areas. Moonlight details include Miss Bernice Jackson visiting grandparents and sleigh riding by James Alsop.
Antiseptic powder relieves pain from tender feet and bunions. Used by American French and British troops at the front. Sold everywhere for 25 cents. Over 100000 packages in use.
Bethany hosts a meeting next Saturday night through Sunday and Sunday night. Fred Dove, a Kennedy mine worker near Pleasantville, sustained a possible slate fall injury last week. Betsy Trimble, her baby, and Miss Iva Walters visited Effie Hilderbrand’s family on Wednesday. James Boone and wife traveled to Sullivan Friday on business. Mrs. Moore of Pleasantville died Sunday morning after a brief illness. Corda Dunbar visits aunt Mary Shake. John and Mary Plummer host Mr. and Mrs. Joe Trimble Thursday. Kate Walters and daughter Iva, Effie Hilderbrand and daughter Josie visited Elmer Carrico. Thursday.
Louis Story notes a sick horse while Oscar Robbins recovers from illness and Viola Morgan suffers whooping cough. Carlisle shoppers and Sullivan visitors engage in cattle buying, hog butchering, coal hauling, and telephones. Weather reports of cold in Missouri accompany visits from Harris Wheaton and others.
A vintage drug advertisement claims the product breaks up colds in 24 hours and relieves feverishness constipation teething disorders and worms. Promises 30 years of maternal use and free samples with a 25 cent price. A. S. Olmsted Le Bar NL.
Mrs Clem Hoggatt and Effie Mahan traveled to Farmersburg and Terre Haute State Normal respectively for weekend visits. Ruth Prather stayed with relatives in Hymera while Mr and Mrs John Brown visited Hymera with their daughter Maxine. Ethel Willis and Neele Brown also visited Hymera. Will Self spent Saturday in Lewis. F Prather and James W Brown were in Brazil last Saturday.
Sickness runs through the community while local tasks continue. The report notes butchering as common, visits among Whitlocks and neighbors, trips to Sullivan, a near Narrows crossing, a Middletown doctor’s presence, a surprise Middletown dinner, and a Saturday marriage of Lex Trueblood and Ossie Welch with future residence on the Pogue farm near the Drake church.
Sickness in the pastor's family postponed services at Kingsley. Will Thomas did business in Sullivan on Friday. Maurice DeBaun and family visited their father Al DeBaun by Turmans Creek. Elsie Peacher stayed with Fleeta Jewell Sunday. Rev. George Fuson leads meetings at York. Hi. Ray Trueblood and wife visited Sullivan Saturday. Charles Bostick and wife spent Sunday with Millard Bostick at Mrs. William Fuson’s home.
Ray Watson visits cousin Gertrude and Will Philips in Bement with Mrs. James Durham visiting relatives in Oxford and Oberlin. On the sick list are O Ross Rockwell Paul Adams and Mother Ingersoll. Charles Bradgen and wife spent Friday at Warren Watson's. Nellie and Cecil Phillips were sick last week. C B E Watson Fr is real sick. Claude Campbell and family spent Sunday at Steve Anderson's. Will Watson and family visited his parents Friday. The piece recalls heavy snows and big drifts of January 1918.
Jas Monk returned from Gordon Nebraska reporting cold weather with little snow. A son was born to Rev and Mrs O M Deal last Saturday. Another lecture will be held next Friday if weather allows. Mrs Badger remains ill. Profs Shanner and Scully were in Terre Haute last weekend. Deal walked to appointments due to bad roads.
Francis Marion Riggs born Aug 25 1846 in Turman township near Harris mill. He died Jan 20 1918 aged 71 years 4 months 20 days. He married Samantha Jane Wilson Feb 25 1869 and they had six children, three sons and three daughters. Effie Lillian died at 7 months.
The obituary notes the death of Mr. Riggs after a three year battle with diabetes. Survived by wife Grace Wuheady of Riverside Indiana and children James, Clinton, Clarence and Emma with the mother at Prairie Creek. Thirteen grandchildren and a Coffeyville family group mourn his loss. Funeral services led by Rev. Minter at the home, with interment at Prairie Creek Cemetery.
We thank our neighbor and friends for untiring assistance and sympathy through the illness and death of our beloved husband and father Francis M Riggs.
We thank neighbors and friends for kindness during the illness and in the death of our wife and mother, J. L. Goodwin and children.
A notice board at the Union office displays no hunting or trespassing signs. The heavy tie board emphasizes restrictions for the property and informs readers of prohibited activities.
The Sullivan County Mine Mining Board will meet on the first Wednesday of each month at ten o clock. Readiness and agenda details to be announced. Local officials urge affected parties to attend the proceedings.
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