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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1917
Page
5
A crowded column lists visitors and events across Farmersburg and nearby towns. Social calls involve Mrs. Jessie Harrison, Mrs. Edgar Strain, and the Strain family. A Children’s Day program is planned for June 17 at the Sunday school.
A long list of weekend visits and social calls across Sullivan and surrounding towns includes Edimon Jewell and relatives in Middeleton, the Wyman Harris and Jewell clans, and numerous outings to Fort Harrison and Indianapolis. Notable notes: deaths of Elza Hyatt and several residents visiting kin in Linton, Bloomington, and St Petersburg.
Numerous residents visit relatives and friends in Sullivan and surrounding towns. Persons mentioned include Sam Sandusky, Mrs. Will Lee, Reva Lee, Hazel Brown, Lucile Austin who travels back to Indianapolis, Mary Dodds, Mrs. Alice Anson, H. EB. St. Clair, Shelburn, Mrs. J. M. Oldham, Mrs. Davis Arnett and children, Mrse Witt Lee, Chas. Prose and wife, Merom, Mazel Brown, Lucy Adams, Irene and Bessie Schlichter, M. J. Russell and family, Lin ton friends, Children’s Day services announced for June 10 at the M E church, W. G. Schlichter, Rose C chapel, Terre Haute visits, Mrs. Will Lee on sick list, Mrs. Will Corder and Barline Ceyner of Merom Station, Mrs. Osborn Irvin, Bernice Brown, Jake Prose, Willie Meng and wife at Terre Haute.
The County Board of Review met Monday in the County Recorder office for a thirty day session to revise and hear all complaints on assessments and taxation. Members include Auditor Frank Daniels secretary Frank Hiatt county assessor chairman County Treasurer Gambill Walter J Cooper of Merom and Jacob Billman of this city, appointed by Judge Bridwell.
The Graysville Parent-Teachers Association schedules a program on June 8 featuring piano solos by Martha York and Hazel Ogle, a prayer by Mr. Watson, vocal solo by Mrs. Bostick, Scout tidings by J. J. Durham, violin solo by Hamilton Burton, reading by Edgar Harris and Sylvia Medsker, questions, and a Star Spangled Banner finale.
A judge quotes a rustic proverb about social change and respectability. The saying compares a misfit to a wet dog admitted into the parlor after rain as a metaphor for conversion.
A Rochester Times exchange questions what a woman truly needs for happiness. One speaker asserts she has all she needs while the other counters that happiness lies in what she does not need.
List of undelivered letters remaining in Sullivan Indiana postoffice as of June 6 1917 with two weeks to claim before sending to Dead Letter Office. Names include Mrs Emma Higgins Mrs Bessie Sanders Miss Julia Winters Mr Harley Bledsoe Dr Freedman Mr Jack Hyatt Addie Lantz H Pickering H D Stull Mr H Walker and others. Also promotion for Terre Haute Star and Sullivan Won one year for 3 dollars.
The piece notes March as the start of spring and lists signs of the season such as wild geese, crocus, robins, and onion sets. It humorously profiles the robin as a unreliable harbinger, pondering its role in farmers, politicians, and newspapers, ending with a wink at its editorial fame.
The state Supreme Court affirmed Judge W H Bridwell of Sullican circuit court in fourteen Corrupt Practices Act cases tied to a focal option election in Curry township two years ago. Bridwell ruled the act did not apply to local election. the decision aligns with earlier similar rulings from this county. The panel also rejected claims in the Advance Oil Company lease dispute, upholding Pennsyl vania landowners against a dry hole on the Hunt lease after years of investigation.
Mrs. Dave Nicoson and her daughter Rebecca from Indianapolis are visiting relatives in the area.
Turman township farmer Cammodore Monk and neighbors in the Wabash bottoms receive a flood warning from the Weather Bureau in Terre Haute on Monday urging immediate removal of all available property from the bottomlands.
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