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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1902
Page
2
J R Riggs seller markets Hart Shagner Marx Varsity sack for young men with updated cut this season. Emphasizes quality and the H S M label as a guarantee of satisfaction priced at 60c 40c.
A nine year old horse weighing about 1200 pounds with a white forehead spot and about 16 hands high strayed from a pasture one mile east of New Lebanon. Notify T. B. Springer Jr The Foot Fitter Sullivan Ind.
The Vandalia Line asks those seeking information on rates and train times to write to D. B. Sreze Traveling Passenger Agent Terre Haute Indiana for prompt attention.
Memorial Day services were held at the Methodist church with G A R W R C and D of R bodies in attendance. Mrs. Etta Hughes sang, Ruth Boyd delivered a school recitation, and Hon. Will Hays gave the day’s address. Cemetery rites followed at Fred Kneff’s grave.
John Sebastian G P A of the Great Rock Island Route Chicago offers free information about Colorado travel. Learn about Colorado hotels boarding houses and cheap summer rates. A mailed request to the provided address secures the literature and details for the inexperienced traveler.
A Kirkman Iowa note says a gasoline stove burn caused a severe sore, treated by Bucklen’s Arnica Salve which cured it. The ad claims the salve is infallible for data, corns, sores, boils, bruises, skin diseases and piles and sells for 25 cents at Joe K Smocks.
Persons calling for any of the above letters will please say advertised. A A Holmes postmaster in charge lists names including Brandenburg B F Bower Mrs C N Boslian Miss Latin Blakman Miss Ivy Borders David two Bowers E A Bareken J W Chpter Mille Clark Myrtle Clifford Mary Creager Win Crawford Mr C Dickerson W T Darby W W Duncan W A Errand Lether Fulty Mrs T B Griffith F A Goodrich Ida Goswold W J Greeve Miella Joseph J W Lankford Annie Levi Walter Monroe Doda Maxey A J McClanahan Minnie McDaniel G Milam H W Merisers H McLellan M Marrs A A Patterson John Plew Charles Parke Nellie McReynolds C B Riggs Salie Rooksberry John Richards E D Sullivan Bertha Smith Pleas Smith Nellie Stampeler J F Sherwood Bill Sherman Miss Sankey Jesse Wells John Wilson H C
The district schools of Hamilton township will hold the commencement at Little Flock church north of Sullivan on Tuesday evening June 10, 1902. Eleven graduates named are Roberta Zike Roxia Bilyew Agnes Boone Alva C Wyman Cora B Graham C Don Ford Nettie Dudley Myrtle Murdock Jesse Wright Kathryn Goodwin Effie Bicknell.
A reader from CuHas, WIBLE, touts the Balanced Frame Dandy as the best cultivator seen, claiming it is easier to operate and can plow more corn per day than any walking cultivator. The sender names John A. Mattix as the seller and notes season prior purchase.
Sullivan county supporters are urged to raise $20,000 to unlock a $330,000 gift from F. A. Palmer of New York City. About $13,000 more is needed. Names of local $100 donors include Geo W Buff A A Holmes W H Crowder George McNabb Geo W Stanley and others. Thomas Pogue and wife gave a memorial gift. Solicitors Arthur M Ward and Daniel B Atkinson request additional contributors.
A Boston man who wed a sickly rich young woman is now happy after using Dr King's New Life Pills to restore her health. The ad promotes the pills as infallible for jaundice biliousness malaria fever and all liver and stomach troubles. One 25c at Joe K Smock. Also notices a W R C ice cream supper at New Lebanon hall on Saturday evening June 7 1902 with vocal and instrumental music.
Mrs Henry Hawkins lost a pocket book containing $19 and papers at the cemetery. The loss was announced at Friday’s commencement exercises and Saturday morning the pocket book was returned. It was found by Mrs Roy Houpt and returned to the owner by an honest person.
A feature on Uncle Thomas Osburn of the Shelburn area recounts his long life on the home farm six miles northwest of Sullivan, his Kentucky birth in 1825, and kin scattered across Indiana. It notes his debts to the UNION, his late relatives, and plans for relatives B. R. Nesbit and wife returning from Chicago University with a newborn.
Insomnia stemmed from nerve derangement, Lichty’s Celery Nerve Compound blends celery extract with other efficacious ingredients as a nerve medicine. It is promoted as rare virtue and prompt soothing cure, claimed to induce sleep, sold by E. E. Mnebler.
J A Mattix receives a car load of Blue Ribbon Buggies with Rubber and Steel tires and Seed Rye at Crowder Milling Co within a single notice.
The E and T H R R lists round trip rates from Peoria Marion Culver and Indianapolis for Saengerbund gatherings and the Indiana Music Teachers Association. Includes Fourth of July and Sunday excursion options with various sale dates and return limits, plus Tacoma and Lafayette trips and contact details for agents F P Jeffries W W Casto and D H Hinlman.
The Home Life Insurance Company of New York, one of America's oldest and strongest, is represented in Sullivan and Green counties by W S Kirkham. Offices are in Sullivan Indiana Liston Indiana and Bloomfield Indiana.
The notice states trains Nos 1 and 2 run daily except Sunday and that trains do not stop where a time is not listed.
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