Plans for Homecoming Progressing
Rev John McD Horne serves as general chairman and Mrs H C Steel as secretary as preparations advance for the upcoming homecoming event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McD. Horne
H. C. Steel
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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1919
Page
1
Sullivan to Host County Wide Welcome Home Day
Sullivan plans a Sept 23 welcome home celebration for World War I veterans. A Terre Haute Military Band will provide music. organizers envision aerial displays and a soldiers drill. A public wedding and county barbecue are planned with wide participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan
Sullivan County
John McD. Horne
Christian Church of
H. C. Steel
Gilbert W. Gambill
James J. Durham
David N. Curry
Arthur D. Cutler
Richard Park
Charles van Arsdall
E. A. Billman
Robert Gouchenour
Homer Wiltse
W. T. Mellett
Ward Hawkins
Jess Bolinger
E. Ss. Crowder
O. B. Harris
James M. Lang
Terre Haute
Eivery
Pe County
City Funds Report Shows June Receipts and Disbursements
City Treasurer Ed P. Snow presented the June funds report to the city council. Beginning balance was 10,253.46, receipts totaled 13,387.94, and disbursements of 5,831.13 left a month end balance of 17,810.27 across General, library, road, city building, and bond improvement accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed P. Snow
Pipe Organ Installation Progress at Local Church
Work on installing a $4,000 pipe organ in the Christian church is advancing rapidly. A factory expert is in the city to complete the instrument, with completion expected in late August. The organ dedication is set for early September with Miss Tressa Wolfe as organist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Church
Tressa Wolfe
Wilkesbarre visitors return home after stay
Mr and Mrs Niles Foster of Wilkes Barre Pa who had been visiting relatives here returned home Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niles Foster
Wilkesharre, Pa
National Bank of Sullivan Undergoing Major Improvements
The National Bank of Sullivan is mid renovation costing about twenty five thousand dollars. Chicago architect F W Julian supervises re furnishing and re equipment featuring mosaic tile floors mottled marble sills mahogany fixtures and a new vault with three hundred safety deposit boxes. The project spans sixty days and aims to produce a top tier banking room with marble features lamps and private offices for staff and directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bank of Sullivan
F. W. Julian
Chicago
Bank
County Harvests Record Blackberry Crop in Sullivan County
Sullivan County and surrounding areas see a record blackberry harvest this week as berries ripen. Demand is high with prices peaking early then dropping to 50 cents a gallon. many families join mobile harvest parties while hundreds of gallons may go to waste in the western part of the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan County
Sullivan
Aged Jackson Township Woman Passes Away
Long life of Mary B Crawford widow of David Crawford is remembered in Hymera funeral with Methodist ministering and choir led by Rev Williams. Born 1828 in Kentucky she raised seven children, joined Old Bethel then Shiloh church, valued nature, patriotism, and Christian service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hymera
Mary B. Crawford
David Crawford
Landman Asbury
Methodist Church
Pioneer Church of Methodism
Indiana
Peter Cartwright
Asbury
Colonel Asbury
Farmersburg
DePauw University
Sullivan County
Mary
Kentucky
James M. Mahan
Samuel G. Mahon
Alice Susband
Thesedele
Ind
Josie Liston
Taewis
Tillitha
Martha
Laura
Ciltha
Samuel
David
Old Bethel Church Yard
James Blair Mahan
Vacation Bible School Closes After Four Week Run
The Baptist church program conducted by Effie Douthitt and Viola Long ended Friday night with commencement exercises. Abbie Hutchison led the music as forty five children completed Sullivan’s first such course. The four week event proved beneficial and well received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bible School of the Baptist Church
Effie Douthitt
Viola Long
Abbie Hutchison
Sullivan
Sullivan county wheat crop 55 per cent short this year
Sullivan county 1919 wheat yield far below expectations despite 25 percent more acreage than 1918. Smut scab and worms blamed for shrinkage. Red Wave Blue Stem Poole and Fultz were common varieties with Marquis spring wheat almost a total loss. Ten elevators handle grain at farms and towns across the county as threshing winds down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan County
Poole
Fultz
United States Department of Agriculture
Sullivan
Farmersburg
Carlisle
Shelburn
New Lebanon
Merom Station
Captain Higbee Home From Ten Month France Service
Captain Paul Higbee son of Detective George Higbee arrived in Brooklyn after a ten day furlough from Camp Taylor Kentucky. He served ten months in France heading medical staff at bases 66 and 78 in the Bordeaux sector and visited Paris during furloughs. He expects discharge soon and plans to resume medical practice in Sullivan. He will dine at the Eagle Island club this evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Higbee
George Higbee
Camp Taylor
Entucky
Brooklyn
France
Higbee
Bordeaux
Paris
Fort Harrison
Army of Occupation
Sullivan
Eagle Island Club
County's First War Hero Arrives Home
Sgt. Louis Keifer, the first Sullivan County boy wounded overseas, has arrived home and visits his mother near Hymera. He served in France from August 1917 until March 1919, among the first Americans injured during the Germans trench raid in November 1917, struck in the shoulder by a shell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Keifer
Sullivan County
Hymera
France
Bland's Pension Bill Proposes Monthly Payments
Representative Oscar E. Bland of Indiana introduces a bill to switch pension payments from quarterly to monthly. He says quarterly handing is hard on most pensioners and cites numerous requests for monthly payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar E. Bland
Indiana
Bland
Stolen Car Returned by Detroit Detectives
Detectives R. E. Rettroff and John Rettroff of the Detroit police brought home a touring car stolen in Detroit months ago by Harold Beckett formerly of Hymera. Beckett was captured by Sullivan authorities and taken to Detroit, where he admitted the theft after initial denial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E
John Rettroff
Detroit
Mich
Harold Beckett
Hymera
Sullivan
Beckett
Well Known Turman Township Woman Dead
Mrs Hallie Brown wife of Isaac Brown dies after extended illness at home two and a half miles north of Graysville Funeral set for tomorrow at 2 pm at the family residence with Rev Will Yager of Graysville officiating Burial at Johnson cemetery She was daughter of O P Badger of Graysville and one of Turman townships long time residents Survived by husband four children and several siblings from Graysville Des Moines Terre Haute and Turman Township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallie Brown
Turman Township
Isaac Brown
Graysville
Eancer
Will Yager
Johnson Cemetery
Methodist Church
Frank Badger
Bruce Badger
Des Moines
Government official to recommend railway switch in Sullivan
E C Manson connected with the director general of railroads spent Thursday in Sullivan assessing a proposed switch at the C T H and S E railroad station to connect Sullivan terminal with the C and E I line He plans to recommend the switch when he returns to Washington no date given Advocates claim substantial freight savings for Sullivan by avoiding routing via Terre Haute and the C I Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Director General of Railroads
E. C. Manson
Sullivan
East
Washington Street
Manson
Merchants Ice and Coal Company
Draper Coal and Ice Company
J. R.riggs
Riggs
J. L. Bowman
J. 8
Draper
Washington
Terre Haute
Suit for damages by 16 year old against Shelburn Co operative
Porest Butter through next friend Ralph Butter of Shelburn sues Shelburn Co operative Society for 1000 dollars claiming injuries as a delivery boy when an automobile furnished by defendants, in bad repair, kicked a crank and injured his arm. He lost ten weeks work and incurred medical bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porest
Ralph Butter
Shelburn
Shelburn Co-operative Society
Local Sheriff Franks Wible Injured in Hayfield Accident
Frank Wible, noted horseman and former sheriff, sustained very serious injuries Saturday when a hay rake ran away on Ben Battix’s farm north west of the city. He was thrown, the rake pulled apart, and a prong pierced his hip while another horse crushed him. He will be confined to his home for some time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Wible
Ben Battix
Mr. Wible
Wible
Merom Bluff Chautauqua Opens With Soprano Bertha Farner
Miss Bertha Farner, renowned American soprano, leads a strong company including English cellist Miss Ethel Murray and Chicago violinist Ralph Michaelis at Merom Bluff Chautauqua on August 26 with both afternoon and evening programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fortune Gallo
San Carl Grand Opera Co
Metropolitan Grand Opera Co
Farner
Merom Bluff Chautauqua
Chaplain Scull Recalls War Zone Travel and Verdun Visits
Chaplain J. T. Scull, recently discharged from the army, told of fourteen days on leave visiting France Belgium and Luxembourg. He described Vimyridge Verdun the Crown Prince tunnel Rheims Cathedral and Belgian gratitude to Americans. The talk ended with his Leviathan voyage home and a prayerful return to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
J. T. Scull
Camp Grant
Ill
France
Belgium
Holland
Scull
Camp Taylor
S. I. Long
91St
Montreal
Quebec
Canada
Alsace-Lorraine
Luxenburg
Vimyridge
Crown Prince’s
Verdun
Rheims
Chaplain Scull
Germany
U. S
A. W. Youngblood
Seull
Denney Brokaw Weds Katherine Runs in July Ceremony
Denney Brokaw son of Mr and Mrs William Brokaw of west of Sullivan married Katherine Runs daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Runs of St Louis Mo on July 5. The couple returned to Sullivan and will not reside there permanently until September when Mr Brokaw will work on a farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denney Brokaw
William Brokaw
West of Sullivan
Katherine Runs
Michael Runs
St. Louis
Sullivan
Mr. Brokaw
Six Shelburn Men Enlist in Navy
Six Shelburn men enlisted in the navy when an officer visited from Terre Haute. Hugh B. Thomas and Arthur H. Duncan entered as seamen second class, while Ellsworth A. Hall George W. Anderson Neal Gravel and Walter Lesnick enlisted as apprentice seamen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelburn
Navy
Terre Haute
Hugh B. Thomas
Arthur H. Duncan
Ellsworth A. Hall
George W. Anderson
Neal Gravel
Walter Lesnick
Red Bird mine sold near Dugger to Mike Yung
Mike Yung of Dugger purchased the Red Bird coal mine near Dugger from Sam Bradshaw. The deal closed Thursday as Bradshaw plans to move to Terre Haute to join Phil Penna coal interests and set up the new headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Yung
Dugger
Red Bird
Sam Bradshaw
Bradshaw
Phil Penna
Terre Haute
Sullivan Concern Buys Large Building
The Sullivan Concern purchases a large building from C. L. Davis and Ben Davis. The deal marks a significant expansion for the company and secures a long term asset in the city. Local observers note the move could shift the area's commercial footprint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan Concern
Eighteenthousand Price Paid For Sullivan Store Move
The Index Nation Company of Sullivan buys the three story brick building on Court street from Charles L. Davis and Benjamin Davis for eighteen thousand dollars. Black Brothers hardware will occupy the wareroom and 40 by 130 foot section on Section street and the company will move there after constructing a new front and electric elevator. The Index Company plans extensive improvements before relocating from the south square site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan
Index Nation Company
Charles L. Davis
Benjamin Davis
North Court Street
Black Brothers Hardware Store
Court Street
James M. Sinclair
Paul L. Reid
Black Bros
Section Street
Index Company
Index
James B. Mullane
Indianapolis
Charles D. Hunt
Charles Foust
Brazil
Mt. Carmel
Ill
Shelbyville
Ind
Manns Grove Picnic Called Off This Year
The annual Sunday school gathering at Manns Grove west of Graysville is canceled for this year after decades of attendance. Once organized 36 years ago by the late Rev. John T. Phillips, the event drew hundreds annually. During the war Dr. J L Durham sold walnut timber to the government for gun stocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annua
Asrove
Graysville
Oiears
Eelatics
West Walk
John T. Phillips
J. L. Durham
Petition for New City Park Presented to Council
A petition with more than four hundred taxpayers’ names asks the city to buy a tract opposite the county hospital for a city park. Charles H. Bedwell presented it. W T Mellutt was to present but was absent. The council took the petition under advisement and debated the recently granted city water rate increase, deciding to oppose the proposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New City Park
County Hospital
Charles H. Bedwell
W. T. Mellutt
Ecouncil
Se Council
Public Service Commission
Dance at Country Home Honors Miss Crawley of Indianapolis
Mr and Mrs Fred F Bays hosted over 100 guests at a country home north of the city for a dance honoring Miss Jeanette Crawley of Indianapolis daughter of Mrs Kate Crawley formerly of Sullivan Miss Crawley visits several days with the Bays Lawn lanterns and electric fans cooled the ballroom Music by the Wooslow orchestra of Sullivan Max Russell sax Walter Botts sax Howard Wyne piano Vern Ross drums
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred F. Bays
Jeanette Crawley
Indianapolis
Kate Crawley
Sullivan
Crawley
Bays
Wooslow Orchestra
Max Russell
Walter Botts
Howard Wyne
Vern Ross
Marriage Licenses for Dugger and Shelby Towns
Myrl Hadley 22 a mechanic and Eva Alumbaugh 20 both of Dugger. George W. Williams 23 a miner and Zella Hawkins 18 both of Dugger. Chauncy B. Hayes 31 a miner and Anna M. Lawhorn 19 both of Shelburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrl Hadley
Mechanic
Eva Alumbaugh
Dugger
George W. Williams
Miner
Zella Hawkins
Chauncy B. Hayes
Anna M. Lawhorn
Shelburn
Gouckenour Buys Home From Lucinda Lucas on North State
Robert Gouckenour purchased the residence of Mrs. Lucinda Lucas on North State Street. Mrs. Lucas lives at Culver and is visiting relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gouckenour
Robert Gouckenour
Lucinda Lucas
North State Street
Mrs. Lucas
Culver
Also Mentioned on This Page
City Funds Report
Jackson Township
M. E
Children’s School
Paul Higben Hom
County
S. E
BK. I Ry
Community Club
Lee Ladd
Curry
Louis
Weeks
Clevy Lloyd
Fairbanks
William Thomas
Turman
E Emerson Watson
Hamilton
J. W. Tindley
Cass
Ernest Dugger
Haddon
Cecil Johnson
Gill
Louis Brooks
Jefferson
Index Notion Company
C.L. Davis
Ben Davis
Black Brothers
Manns Grove
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