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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1921
Page
4
Following a directive from Postmaster General Will H. Hays the Sullivan postoffice received two forty five caliber Colt revolvers of the army style with holsters and sixty rounds of ammunition on Friday.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul system has acquired the Chicago Terre Haute and Southeastern Railroad also known as the Wash road. This merger means much for the region in coal haulage as 14000 coal cars owned by the CMStP system will be used to move coal from Indiana fields served by the Walsh road.
The Fifth Corps Area invites boys ages 16 to 35 across Kentucky Indiana Ohio and West Virginia to a month long camp at Camp Knox Ft Benjamin Harrison. Free uniforms equipment shelter meals and recreation along with drill field maneuvers and band concerts are provided under Army supervision. Applications via county chairman or M T A H Q Louisville or Ft Benjamin Harrison.
Washington reports the effort to name new postmasters is slowed by the need for more examiners and inspectors. The Civil Service Commission warns current staff cannot handle the flood of vacancies from the Wilson and Harding eras without Congress funds for additional personnel.
C T McCartey argues in The Martin County Tribune that robbing a community of its birthright harms children and nations. Parents must invest in talents through modern schools funded over many years, benefiting future generations even if current payers bear the burden.
The Terre Haute Tribune notes Prof Vick Trolla’s improved Edison style questions testing graduates. It lists playful queries about language history science and culture, ending with the remark that one installment is ample.
A delay gap exists between postoffice department vacancy certification and civil service commission eligibility certification. The old system sent the highest eligible to the President, but the new allows a choice among three, prompting delays as postmaster general negotiates with Republican lawmakers before sending to the White House and then the Senate.
Senator New speaks at Plymouth American Legion meeting praising Washington and the fallen, urging loyalty to law and country. He recounts accompanying President Harding to Hoboken to honor six thousand American dead and warns against foreign influence and slackers.
Announcement of the birth of a daughter Sunday to Mr and Mrs John Harbaugh of Washington Court House Ohio. Various local real estate sales and moves include Alfred Mankedick selling a Giles addition residence to Charles Price for 4800 dollars and Johnson Baker family relocating to Vincennes. A Vulcanizer accident injures Dr George Billman. Thieves take tires from Sullivan County Motor Company garage. Lois Evelyn born Sunday to Mr and Mrs Laurence Ford at the county hospital.
British critics described a brotherhood of poets linked to the Cumberland lakes as the Lake Poets or Lake School. Wordsworth Southey and Coleridge were viewed as leaders, with Lamb Lloyd and Wilson also included in the designation.
The text notes there is no old maid in China and explains concubine roles. Concubines arise when there is no issue from the wife, and their children are legitimate. A man risks social backlash if he takes a concubine against his wife, while parents are revered though indulgent to children.
In a military tale from the American Legion Weekly, Private Binks is sentenced to whistle in a corner for an hour but the captain shortens the punishment to five minutes after Binks begins whistling The Star Spangled Banner, reflecting a playful twist on discipline.
Mother House Mouse instructs seven blind pups on life in the cellar. they will soon venture into houses and pantries, learning to seek cheese and sing softly, while remaining small, gray, and tailful. The tale frames a hopeful, mischievous universe of mice and their world.
A student recounts a farm summer memory of seeing a cat kill a chicken while a sophomoric remark contrasts with a later line about sewing the Catskill mountains. The piece blends school year voices and rural imagery without clear events or dates.
A Washington paper reprints USDA home making recipes for hot biscuits. The Plain Baking Powder Biscuit uses flour salt baking powder shortening and a liquid. bake 10 to 15 minutes in a hot oven. A sour milk variation adds baking soda and sour milk or butter milk, baked 10 to 12 minutes.
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