Local notes on visits and events in Nineveh and surroundings
Miss Marguerite Hubble visits relatives at Ninevah Indiana. Miss Hatten travels to Terre Haute. Miss Gussie Pleasant leaves for Terre Haute to stay with Mrs. Fred Boyer. George Hubble returns home. Delegates attend convention at New Lebanon. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Coyner return from Mt. Carmel Illinois. Observation school closed, college commencement well attended. Julius Hoesman buys a new six cylinder Marion car. Normal school in session. G Lane attends Lake Geneva Y M C A conference. William Houpt makes a business trip to Palestine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Hoesman
G. Lane
Lake Geneva
William Houpt
Palestine
Wheat harvest at hand in Big Springs community
Big Springs residents note a promising wheat crop. Local social updates include visits and dinners among James Durham family, Warren Watson, Guy Cushman, Elmer Harrison, R J Turman, and others. A Children’s Day program raised twelve dollars for home missions and guests from Sullivan and Indianapolis attended events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Springs
Johnson
Indianapolis
James Durham
Charles Bragdon
Paul Wible
Mervin Beard
Hallie Ladd
Warren Watson
Allie Watson
Mary Manning
Sullivan
Tom Durham
Ridgeway
Merom
George Haines
Joe Bilyew
S. Co
E. Phillips
Mary
W. H. Pounds
Charles Beasley
Lou Williamson
Will Watson
Corwin Phillips Family Sunday Visit to Mr Neese
Corwin Phillips and family spent Sunday at Mr. Neese's. Remember Sunday school each Sunday morning at 9 30 o'clock.
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Corwin Phillips
New Lebanon Route 1 Social Notes
Miss Dora and Hdna Stivers met Miss Ruth and Ruby West Tuesday evening. Several locals attended church events and dinners with neighbors. Wheat cutting is underway as residents report a lively community scene on Route 1.
Douglas Chapel Sunday Service and Local News
Douglas Chapel held a well attended service Sunday night. Children day will be observed. Mrs John Douglas and Mrs Eugene Ransford visited Mrs Chas Woodsmall Sunday afternoon. Mrs Rebecca Hazelrigg lost a valuable cow struck by lightning. Kenneth Russell of Niagara Ranch called on Miss Inez Douglas weekend. Mrs C R Douglas and daughter Inez visited Terre Haute last week. Oral Owens and wife visited Willis Farrands Sunday. Stephen Clark and wife visited Sarah O Neal Sunday. Commodore Hauger and family visited Wm O Neals Sunday. Virgil Bushell and Paul Dix left for Kansas for harvest fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Douglas
Eugene Ransford
Chas. Woodsmall
Rebecca Hazelrigg
Kenneth Russell
Niagara Ranch
Inez Douglas
C. R. Douglas
Inez
Terre Haute
Oral Owens
Willis Farrands
Stephen Clark
Sarah O’neal
Commodore Hauger
Hymera Mines Open After Idle Period
Mine 32 resumes operations after idle period from April 1 with three days of work this week. Mine 33 reports two full days of activity, signaling renewed activity at the Hymera site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hymera
One Big Hat Selling Event At June Clearance
A merged June sale and Midsummer Clearance announces a large hat selling event. Patrons are urged to arrive early to view fresh trimmed stock and avoid shop worn goods, with quality and prices touted to justify immediate consideration.
Local notices and social notes from week in Coalmont area
David Orr improves from lung fever after weeks of illness. Families visit, including Truebloods and Williams clan. Memorial services held by K of P Red Men and Odd Fellows at M E church with Hymera band. Mrs Sparks of Columbus visits J R Sharp. Colts baseball lost 10 to 6 at Coalmont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Orr
James Orr
Walter Trueblood
Grandma Thompson
Farmersburg
O. W. Turner
W. J
H. M
Thos E
Wesley Williams
Lloyd Williams
J. A. Ward
W. J. Willians
Coalmont
James Smithson
Sullivan Hospital
K. of P
Red Men
Odd Fellows
M. E. Church
F. M. Nead
Henry Pirtle
Dairy Littlejohn
Hymera Band
W. J. Williams
Steve Klinger
Lewis
Shiloh Meeting News Amid Rain and Visits
A pleasant rain blessed Sunday at Shiloh where a large crowd attended services and a grand sermon by Bro. McBride. Martin Pirtle lost a fine horse. Mrs. Etta Bennett drove to Dugger Saturday. Laura Driver of Colorado visited relatives. Silas Parks and family visited John Chambers and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shiloh
Martin Pirtle
Bro
McBride
Etta Bennett
Dugger
Laura Driver
Colorado
Silas Parks
John Chambers
Harvest Drags as Wheat Fields Suffer from Fly and Drought
Fairbanks area reports wheat harvest active but light yields in many fields due to fly and drought. Local social notes include visits by Will Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Cal Harmon and Opal, Mrs. Mary Dickerson’s Oklahoma trip with son Guy, and various Sunday gatherings around Fairbanks, Sullivan, and Kingsley. Childrens day program set for June 21 at Kingsley with extensive planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbanks
Will Thomas
Cal Harmon
Opal
John Johnson
Mary Dickerson
Oklahoma
Guy
Claude Byers
Graysville notes refreshing rains and local visits
Rev. W. H. Thompson and wife will represent the Methodist Sunday school at the Indianapolis convention this week. Ralph Pennington was discharged from the U S Navy last week and came home Wednesday. Mrs. Joseph Grimes of Decatur Ind is visiting with her parents. Our lady students at the state normal are at home for vacation. The children day services at Christian and Methodist churches were well attended and delightful. Mina Moore and brother Earl of Brazil are visiting. There are no tango in our midst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Thompson
Methodist
Indianapolis
Ralph Pennington
United States Navy
Joseph Grimes
Decatur
Ind
S. S. Yager
Our Lady
State Normal
Mina Moore
Earl
Brazil
Social Notes From Clay City and Nearby Towns
Mrs. Sarah Props of Clay City visited relatives here last week. Miss Ethel Shumart was in Jasonville Friday. Miss Dorothy Story visited in Linton last week with her grandmother Mrs. Mary Story. Miss Pearl Green of Shelburn visited relatives here last Miss Catherine Lyons visited in Linton last week with her aunt Mrs. Estel Maddox. Misses Elsie Dugger and Lucy Bishop returned Thursday from Terre Haute where they attended ISNS.
Mrs. Ellen McGuire Dies After Short Illness at 58
Mrs. Ellen Graham McGuire wife of Ulysses M. McGuire pastor of the First Baptist church died yesterday at the family home on South State Street after a brief pneumonia and heart complication. She was born in Jackson County Indiana and married in 1879. Survived by husband, one brother John E. Graham, and children Rev Clive McGuire Arthur G McGuire Paul McGuire Fern McGuire Vane McGuire Ella Randolph and Mrs Walter F Wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. M. McGuire
Ellen Graham McGuire
Ulysses M. McGuire
First Baptist Church
South State Street
Sullivan Daily Times
Paul McGuire
the Times
Fern McGuire
City
Vane McGuire
Detroit
Ella Randolph
Walter F. Wood
Badger Hancock Wedding At M E Parsonage
O B Badger son of O P Badger of Turman township and Miss Bessie Hancock daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Hancock of this city wed at the M E parsonage Tuesday morning at 9 Rev J H Carnes of Linton officiating Badger formerly an instructor in Columbus Indiana schools and the couple left for Madison Wisconsin where Badger will head the manual training department at Wisconsin University
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Badger-Hancock
O. B. Badger
O. P. Badger
Turman Township
Bessie Hancock
Ed Hancock
M. E. Parsonage
J. H. Carnes
Linton
Badger
Columbus
Ind
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin University
Sullivan Boy Graduates From Butler University
Dan Mullane son of Mr and Mrs John B Mullane formerly of this city graduates from Butler University this year He is a grandson of George Price of this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan
Butler University
Dan Mullane
John B. Mullane
George Price
Weather of a Week in Farmersburg June report
Miss Carrie Yeager, cooperative weather observer, lists daily highs and lows for June 8 to June 14 in Farmersburg. Days were mostly clear or partly cloudy with traces of rain on the 10th and 12th to 14th amounting to 0.40 on the 13th and 0.02 on the 14th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmersburg
Carrie KE. Yeager
Co-Operative Weather
Advertised Letters in Sullivan Postoffice June 17 1914
List of unclaimed letters in Sullivan Indiana with two week deadline for pickup. Badies Alpine Mrs Wm Dudley Mrs Mary L Hickman Elisabeth Gents Mr E G Camter Mr W S Dugan Mr W Evans Mr John George Mr J A Higgins Mr William Hill Mr Claude Jackson Mr Henry Maruis Mr John Poulter Mr Doug Sharp Mr Vault foreign Ramon Dora Cassary Horacio. Add note to say advertised and one cent due. Also selling Carlisle residence property by G I Blowers Carlisle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan, Ind
Alpine
Wm. Dudley
Mary L. Hickman
Elisabeth Gents
Camter
E. G. Dugan
W. S. Evans
John George
J. A. Higgins
William Hill
Claude Jackson
Henry Maruis
John Poulter
Doug Sharp
Vault Foreign
Real Estate Transfers Compiled by W H Hill Jr Abstracter
Real estate transfers list various parcels in Hymera Sullivan and Gill with buyers and prices from 1 to 3000 dollars. Notable entries include Carrie Peters to Consolidated Indiana Coal Co for blocks 42 48 and 44 in Dixons Sullivan for 2500 dollars and James M Hummell to John W Sevier for Mullane add Sullivan for 3000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Hill, Jr
Homer Meredith
Cecil Meredith
van Coal Co
Hymera
Margaret E. Creager
Augustus B. Creager
Gili
Carrie A. Peters
Con. Ind. Coal Co
Dixons
Sullivan
W. G. Scott
Jas. R. Brown
George O. Wilson
John T. Graves
Claude W. Norris
Frank
Zimmerman
Becketts
Mekena E. Stoops
Elmer Harding
Jackson
Wm. G. Borders
Verna Adams
Luke Squires
Salathiel Boone
Haddon
Fletie S
F. M. Goldman
Deputy
Chas. Farrill
Mary C. McCrory
Gill
Jas. M. Hummell
John W. Sevier
Property Transfers and Election Note From Merom Area
A series of property transfers across Mapleton Sullivan Farmersburg Hamilton Cass and Hymera totals include deeds from Wah to Truebloog Jennings Merrill Davis Deputy Wasmer Worth and others with values shown. The Merom Herald reports President Daniel Albright Long re elected unanimously at UCC trustees meeting and notes a SPECIAL DELIVERY POST CARD proposal with added telephone numbers and altered postage and delivery rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass
Benjamin Davis
Ed P. Reed
Hamilton
Daniel Albright Long
U.C.C
Long
Leng
Merom Herald
Post Office Department
Washington order grants Saturday half holiday for federal workers
Dispatches from Washington report President Wilson has signed an executive order giving federal employees a Saturday half holiday. The rule requires four hours of work on Saturdays from June 15 to September 15 of the current year. Local federal staff await confirmation and details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan
Sullivan Post Office
Washington City
Wilson
Motorcycle Collision Injures Paxton Man
Paul Cox 25 of near Paxton sustains cuts and bruises after his motorcycle collides with an unknown driver’s car at a road turn with high weeds reducing visibility. The bike was dragged 40 feet under the car, Cox was thrown clear. car number 57 044 noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Cox
Paxton
Cox
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Royal Baking Powder Co
New York
New Lebanon
Dora
Hdna Stivers
Ruth
Ruby West
Frank Hanley
Charlotte Poppino
Ruth West
Bledsoe
Nellie Cochran
Millard Stivers
Nell McNabb
Ima
Turia Dungan
Edna Stivers
John Springer
Walker’s Chapel
Hazel Rogers
Rose
Lenox
John Thompson
Houck
Jessie Stanley
Bethel
Gerald Norris
Carl Rogers
Sam Hopper
Douglas Chapel
Fannie Hughes
West State Bank
Sam Riggs
John Harrison
Ben Munroe
Daweher
Carl Lester
West York
Illinois
Elmer Trueblood
the Narrows
Ransford
Union Chapel
Maurice DeBaun
Will Gaston
Kingsley
Claude Harmon
Graysville
Carlisle
G. I. Blowers
Oosier Bargain Store
Lyman Brown
Murray St
New York City
Maxwell-Cowles Shoe Co
Fucot-Fitters
F.A. Billman
Fmbalmer
Hasebestz
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