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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1913
Page
5
Miss Kate Beagle leaves Merom for Rockville hospital care. Irving Eastman departs for New York to start a piano tuning business. The Sullivan lodge Elks host a chicken supper in his honor. Numerous locals host, visit, and travel between Merom, Carlisle, Hymera, Rockville, and Terre Haute as births, moves, and trips are reported.
Big Springs residents report visitors and travels including Monk Morris of Hymera passing through on a fishing expedition to Clear Pond. Hutsonville brief mentions include Tom Hare and Thelma Shores visiting relatives in Terre Haute and Hutsonville respectively. Other short items note farm activity, family visits in Homer and Me Tom, Kentucky visitors to R. J. Turman, and a few local names including Maude Watson and Fern Medsker returning home from I N.
Paul Mathulka of Buffalo New York calls Dr King s New Life Pills the king of all laxatives a blessing to his family and he keeps a box at home Joe K Smock Son druggists recommend them Price 25c Get a box and get well.
Mrs. Nettie Rockenfield visits her mother in Martinsville Ill Elias Moore is very poorly George Hubble from Paxton was home Sunday Mr and Mrs Stratton of Pierce Ill visit with Frank Buffs family Mrs Maggie Colvin of Carlisle visits her mother Mrs Rachel Daugherty Chnnie Moore of Sullivan here Sunday Mrs Alice Boone scalded her foot last week Mrs John Hammond visited relatives in Louisville Ky Linn Root of Robinson visits sister Mrs Mabel Thompson Sunday Mrs Charles Fairfield visited Illinois recently Mrs Nettie Hubbie visiting Terre Haute Mrs Louise Pinkston ill for some time Mrs Draper and daughter of Komomo visit Mrs John Setzer Friday Mrs Glenn Adams visiting her parents Mr and Mrs C S Setzer Mrs Joe McNabb visited her parents here Sunday
An oil well on the Tom Dix farm in northern Hamilton township proved a good producer after drilling yesterday. Located about 400 feet south of a nearby producing well, the new bore is expected to outperform it. Drilled by W. C. Kennedy Oil Company, this well will be shot this afternoon, signaling a continuing oil boom with up to ten drilling outfits expected in the field and a St. Clair Oil Company project on Hayden land.
Miss Eliza Wheaton of Paxton and Andrew Jackson Rich formerly of Sullivan now of Robinson Ills were married yesterday morning at the M E parsonage by Rev P C Lisman. They will reside in Robinson where Mr Rich works as janitor at the high school building.
Frank Harmon president of the county miners examining board suffered a paralytic attack Sunday at Trinity Springs. He has been taken to his Hymera home and is in a very serious condition.
Street commissioner Horace Burnham is seriously ill at his East Jackson Street home after a stroke on Monday while supervising work on West Washington Street. His entire right side is paralyzed.
W P O Haver, 65, died at 5 30 yesterday morning at his home in Farmersburg. He leaves wife Mary Louise and three daughters Mrs Geo McCrocklin of Farmersburg, Mrs Charles Stevens and Mrs Stark Neal of Terre Haute, and two sons Will of Lawrenceburg Illinois and Arthur of Farmersburg. The funeral will be at 10 o clock tomorrow morning. He formerly resided in this city.
Andy Alsman trades his runabout for a five passenger touring car and they go riding Sunday. Maggie Thomas is out again. Ella Kenady dined with cousin Nellie Walters. Hol Sevier visited Sullivan. Emma Davis family moves to Terre Haute. Lucinda Walters to son John Stark’s bedside west of Sullivan. appendicitis serious. Dan Walters loses new cow. sick only days. Nesbits visit Melissa Smith in Sullivan Sunday evening. Alsman Harlow family trip to river. Stella Walters visits mother Deckard. Ethel McCammon and Cora Buck pass through. Will Thurman visits Caledonia mother. Dan Brown to move family to Gilmour for work. Marratta children visit Sullivan recently. Coquella Walters visits Buena McCammon. John Wilson and Russell from Sullivan seen on roads. Edna McCammon visits home folks.
Hay fever and asthma discomfort may be eased by Foley's Honey and Tar Compound which soothes mucus linings and relieves throat and bronchial irritation. For sale by Joe K Smock and Son.
Knotts & Scott shipped eight car loads of sheep totaling about one thousand head from the city to Chicago via the C. and E. I. Railway on Saturday morning marking a record shipment for the period.
The Island Levee Association filed a condemnation petition in the circuit court against John Wisener of Farmersburg to appropriate land belonging to Wisener for rebuilding a damaged Turman township levee after recent floods. The complaint notes the levee requires repairs and the land is needed for this purpose.
Graysville updates report visits by Guy Phillips family and T K Cushman. Miss Mary Croucher visits relatives in Illinois. Thomas on vacation, ill in Terre Haute seeks Graysville doctor. Frank Badger improving. Local gatherings involve Zack Swanagan J F Ward Spencer Ward and families. Rain showers noted and Barn view praised on Main Street.
The circuit court adjourned Saturday and will not convene again until the first Monday in September, marking an end to the current term. The pause alters schedules for filings and hearings expected in the coming weeks.
The tradition speaks of Chinese women baking moon cakes for the man in the moon during an annual festival. The ritual imagines him leaving his celestial seat to wander Earth and nibble the moon faced pastries baked in his honor.
It Cares While You Walk promotes Allen's Foot-Hase an antiseptic powder shaken into shoes. It allegedly relieves sting from corns itching feet ingrown nails bunions and sweating and swelling. Claims shoes feel easy and a trial package is free with address in Le Roy New York.
A man had his wife's cremated ashes processed by a chemist to extract iron and set the metal into a ring. He now wears the ring as a jewelry keepsake.
A humorous 1910s style scene where an elderly woman waves an umbrella and shouts for a tram to stop, but a passing hearse driver coolly responds that it is not her turn yet. The exchange captures light local color and everyday city life.
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