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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1904
Page
7
Cass residents share Sunday visits and dinners with family and friends. Notable items include Quiet marriage of Cleve Lewellyn and Pearl Alumbaugh, plus illnesses, church attendance, and various trips to Dugger and Antioch. Weather reports mention steady rain and new home construction by Thomas Patrick.
fragmented entry notes events in Shiloh region including a burial, a marriage, a building project, a celebration, and visits. Names mentioned include Austin Graham, Avid Beck, Anna Fuquay, Ames Gray, Martin Pirtle, William Wyatt, and drivers visiting Pleasantville. text is messy and partially illegible.
Local residents report travel for health and work. Names include Purcell Nash Hollingsworth Klingman Boone Sloop Over Combs Pirtle Nesbit Castle Hoover and others visiting Evansville Carlisle Sullivan Merom and Terre Haute. Church events and anniversaries noted with several social gatherings and a July ice cream social at the M E church.
Ira Pifer of Palestine Illinois was in town Friday Roy Duffer of Terre Haute visited a few days and spent the Fourth with Merom friends C Albert Atkinson attends the St Louis exposition for a week Prof Hatten leaves Thursday for Terre Haute friends Miss Cooper Carlisle and Miss Jess ie Arnold Kentucky were callers here Thursday Mrs Sue Larr and Miss M F Penrod left Saturday for Hot Springs Ark F Howard McHenry is in St Louis for an indefinite time Messrs I Larr and Atsumi attend the World's Fair and Democratic convention
Elmer Thomson and Maude MacKinney married Sunday at the bride’s home with few attendees. Locals extend best wishes for a long, happy life. Other notes mention gatherings, visits, auctions, and daily life around Staffordshire including July Fourth trips to Sullivan.
Sugar Creek summary notes show Joe Wambaugh and family of Coalmont visiting H. H. Hawkins and wife on Thursday. Thomas Coulson was in Terre Haute last week. Harvest is almost here. Elbert Stout and wife of Clay County visited Monday. Eld. Mattox filled his appointment at Good Hope Saturday and Sunday. Oscar Hawkins and wife of Sullivan attended church at Good Hope Sunday.
Mrs John Patton of Terre Haute visits relatives in Hymera. Wm McCord spent Sunday at Rockville. Drs Plew and Asbury form a new partnership. Wm Pipher of Sullivan visits relatives here. Philip Walters of Terre Haute was in Hymera last week. Mrs Chas Cummins visits Mrs Joseph Norman at Rosedale. Work begins on the U I depot. Mrs J Coley of one visits sister Mrs G. Mrs A Burns of Le Haute visits Miss Margaret McGrew. Robert Barnett to St Louis then Washington. Hoffer reunion held at Washington. Mr Frank Raley and Mrs Edna Colman wed last Saturday. Best wishes to the couple. Charles Wardell took Elias Cook to Terre Haute. Cook proceeds to Los Angeles for health reasons.
Arthur Clark and Alma Wood went to Quaker Sunday night. Thomas Morin and Kate Monroe were here Sunday. Corwin Sparks has the measles. May Sparks attended the St. Louis fair and returned home Tuesday. Chas Walters and family and Chas Huff and wife with Miss Fay Conner attended Children's exercise at Graysville Sunday night. Lara Harris visited Minnie Clark Sunday. James Woodard and wife attended church here Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs German Wood visited Mrs Wood's mother near Mt. Tabor. Golden Drake and Zelma Ransford attended services here Sunday evening. Harve Monroe and Easter Parr were at Quaker Sunday night. Miss Ethel Ransford visited home folks Sunday. Orlando Thornberry and Lee Burnett were in our midst Sunday evening. Ed Meyer and Emma Bird attended the ice cream festival at Graysville. Elmer Parr was the guest of Elsie Kennett Sunday night. Joel Barnes and family visited Albert Hopewell's Sunday.
W A Blevins of Vincennes plans relocation after a visit here. Charles Willis of Princeton also here Wednesday. Miss Myrtle Parnell accepts Vincennes position. Carl Watson and family return to Terre Haute after ten days visiting. Heirs of L M Walker sell inherited property of 150 acres to Herman W Dickman for 9000 dollars. Yanke family returns to San Francisco after visit with Mrs Akin. Frank Davidson, inmate at Evansville insane hospital, reported in poor health. Edgar W Akin Jr becomes cashier of People's Bank. Louis J Kixmiller named assistant cashier. Rev W D Woods returns from Chicago Thursday.
The clay roads are very muddy at present. Many young people attended the ice cream supper at Graysville on Saturday. Charles Hardin of Turtle Creek attended church here Sunday evening. Jesse Harris and Roy Ransford went to Graysville Saturday evening. John Joseph and Flora Jewell of Mt. Tabor passed through Sunday evening. Abrahamey has bought a new buggy horse.
Winfield Jewell joins the army heading to Columbus barracks for drilling. Locals report weddings, visits, farming activity, and music efforts. Several residents marry or relocate while others attend fairs, celebrate Independence Day in Sullivan, and plan band organization.
A brief sales note advertises cheaper buys at the Index Cheap Store offering screen wire, screen doors, fruit cans, dishes and hosiery to attract shoppers.
The Eclectic Medical Society of Sullivan and Vigo counties met here Tuesday of last week to discuss papers on medical subjects. Attendees included out of town doctors Hauck Speers Stock Kennedy Billman Nellans Douglas from Terre Haute Sullivan Shelburn. Wm E Johnson and Wm Patten bought James Crosson's butcher shop and Charles Jacobs interest in the Lash and Jacobs meat market. Jacobs will cut for the new firm.
Middletown beat Hutton 16 to 15 Sunday with Frakes and Elliott excelling in pitching and catching. Fielding from both sides was praised as Clarence Pinkston works with Bert Lloyd on painting and several locals attend social gatherings around Sullivan and Early Rings.
Promoters secure a 44 foot lot of Charles Mason west of his drug store for a bank building with Dugger and Linton investors each owning half the capital. Knights of Pythias plan a cement block hall starting the 15th. Reed Bros purchase 20 feet of Mason’s lot for a store, Ira Abrams moves in to manufacture cement blocks. Two hundred tickets were sold from here to Sullivan on the Fourth.
Mrs. J. B. Durham and daughter Laura visited Sullivan. Grace Moore clerks for her uncle in Farmersburg. Dr. Durhan family attended Graysville church services. Hallie Turman stayed with May Thomas. Ralph Griffith of Merom met Ray Watson. Eno and Cushman relatives held a July 4 reunion at A. G. Cushman. Rev. Charles B. Hershey to preach at Big Springs. Corwin Phillips and wife visited J. W. Watson. Mrs. Clara Phillips and children visited Merom Station. Providence and Big Springs folk spent the Fourth at the clear pond.
Mrs Jessie Shuck and kin visited J M Oldham family and returned to Paxton Ills. Rev W A Ryan J W Kemp Dr I J Gill Myrtle Eaton and Mabel Allen went to Farmersburg for the Margaret Dorsey marriage. Monnie Russell and Bessie Trease wed in Robinson then headed to Indianapolis for their future home. R H Johnson and family from Chicago Heights visiting Oldham family. M W A to hold ice cream supper next Saturday.
Those treated by injections knife ligature or cautery often relapse because the cause is not removed. Dr Crowley cures by a method that removes the cause so patients stay healed. Consult Dr Crowley at once to avoid serious complications. Sheet music 10c at Stratton Co.
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