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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1919
Page
1
Reports from Sullivan county indicate overall good crop potential despite reduced corn acreage and wet springs. Wheat yields vary with conditions, oats and timothy are average, fruit outlook remains strong with plentiful apples and peaches, while pests like smut and rust challenge some fields.
The Sullivan County Board of Review works through a shift to true cash value under a new tax law. Officials tour townships to compare land values while preparing a fair reassessment. State official N. K. Todd revisits to discuss corporate taxation as the board finalizes returns and sets a revised county schedule.
The berry crop is exceptionally strong this year with blackberries at the forefront, followed by raspberries and other berries that often surpass their averages. Farmers are in good spirits as crop conditions improve and the county again leads in farm production.
Steve Hollo an Austrian former Cass coal miner from Sullivan county pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the murder of his 16 year old wife in Terre Haute. He received a prison term of 2 to 14 years in Michigan City prison. sentence pronounced by Judge Bridwell with an interpreter present.
County Demonstrator Daisy Deane Williamson will attend the Four Corners Club meeting at Mrs. Mattie McClanahan’s home in northwest Hamilton township and then join the Fairbanks Junior Community Club on Friday. She will travel to Dugger Saturday afternoon to organize a home makers club at Mrs. Ernest Dugger’s home. Saturday night the Graysville Home makers Club hosts an ice cream social to raise funds to send township girls to Purdue University next spring.
An enjoyable party was given at the home of Mrs Mary Medsker Saturday night in honor of the seventeenth birthdays of Archie Nowlin and Robert Medsker. Games and contests entertained guests while refreshments of ice cream cake and lemonade were served. The home was decorated with flowers and Japanese lanterns. Attendees included the Graysville High School Junior and Sophomore classes and a few others.
Mr and Mrs Harve Thompson left Thursday for Rochester Minnesota where their young daughter Iva May will undergo throat surgery at the Mayo sanitarium.
The May term of the Sullivan circuit court will close Saturday after a busy session with many cases tried. The September term will run from September 1 to October 25, and Daniel Berry versus Wabash Valley Distilling Company for alleged malicious prosecution began today in a Knox county denied trial location.
Miss Daisy Deane Williamson will keep her county demonstration agent post after a Monday conference. Purdue official Miss Geraldine Hadley and local leaders discussed sustaining the Home Demonstration program, with $1,200 federal funds this year and $600 locally funded, Montgomery and Hendricks also retaining agents.
Lettie Harding and Fred Harding divorce suit dismissed Ettie McQuary granted divorce from Oliver McQuary Beach & Fuller Company versus Leven Arnett note settled and dismissed Frank Mach estate awarded $1000 against Vincennes Traction Company Nellie Booker custody of Beulah May Booker awarded to father and mother granted visitation Maude Harris administratrix of Perry Harris estate awarded $1350 against Busseram Coal Company James H Black guardian appointed for inmate at southern insane hospital Thomas Collins petition for admission to Indiana Home for Epileptics examined by Dr James Billman and J H Neff Lyde Price divorce against Aud Price dismissed at plaintiff costs Bennie Gummere estate damages $673.60 against Hymera Coal Company
The jury awarded Alva A. Knight $5,000 after 18 hours deliberation in the Sullivan circuit court. Knight claimed loss of his right eye from a flint piece at a Bicknell area coal mine on Sept 27, 1918, while employed by American Coal Mining Company. the case moved from Knox county to Sullivan.
A high producing oil well was drilled late Saturday afternoon on the Dimery Smith farm near Little Flock church. The sand was reached at over six hundred feet. The well was drilled by Oliver Steel, Gilbert Gambill and others and will be shot tomorrow.
In Fairbanks Indiana Jane Fuller reports Mr. and Mrs. George Fuller hosted a Sunday family reunion the first time in fourteen years the entire family gathered. Attendees included daughter Effie Piety and children Harold Catherine Porter Mildred Pauline from Knox Indiana and Elwood Ira Fuller Malcolm Scott Fuller and Keith Fuller with VA Army service noted for Elwood.
James Livingston of this city, arrested with George W. Leach when liquor was found in Livingston’s car, was indicted last week by the federal grand jury on a charge of illegal liquor possession. He is out on bond.
Fred C. Ford son of Mrs. John C. Ford was badly burned on the back Saturday afternoon when a steam pipe burst at the Mil dred mine. He is hospitalized at the county hospital.
Sullivan County to gain 25 miles of Dixie Bee Line improvements as part of a statewide plan to connect county seats and cities with 3 000 plus population. Work funded by state and federal aid begins next spring with gravel roads lined up for several county petitions and a concrete segment completing the Dixie Bee Line south of Sullivan.
A Friday night fire struck the barn of A W Morrisy near Providence church six miles west of Sullivan, destroying hay grain and farm implements valued over $1000. Livestock were saved. Insurance partly covers the loss. A similar blaze razed a barn on the same site three years ago and last year the previous barn burned after a lightning strike.
Sheriff Orville Hale plans drastic action after two rabies cases in Sullivan County. A Buck family dog bit his daughter in Jefferson Township, while a calf and a dog in Fairbanks Township were also attacked. Indianapolis tests confirmed rabies, prompting a county wide muzzle or confinement order for dogs within four miles of the Buck farm and surrounding areas.
Judge Bridwell heard a motion for a new trial in the damage suit filed by Bonnie Gummere of Shelburn against the C&E I rail road. A circuit court jury awarded 8509 to Gummere for her husband Howard Gummere's death from a railroad accident. The estate matters note inheritance taxes for Charles Cooper and Lucy Patton.
The twenty fourth annual old settlers meeting will be held at Bennett's Grove near Farmersburg on August 7 and 8. A P Asbury named chairman of the session. The Hurst Airplane Company of Terre Haute has been contracted to provide flights during the two day session.
Mrs Harriet Tressler, 73, died early this morning at her daughter Mrs Chris Newcome’s home just west of the city. The body will be sent to Columbus Ohio for burial.
The Community Club opens a series of band concerts with the city band at the park Sunday afternoon directed by Frederick Sharpe.
Judge W H Bridwell overruled a motion for a new trial in the state against John Borders who was convicted by a circuit court jury for shooting Harry Haut near the Wilfred mine in September 1917. A petition signed by ten jurors and many others seeking a new trial was discussed, but the court ruled evidence found since the trial did not warrant reopening and the jurors had time to consider the case.
The New Lebanon Epworth League will meet Sunday evening June 29 at 7:00. The subject is Loyalty to our Church and Country. Donald Lemons will lead. special music has been arranged. All soldiers and sailors in the community are invited.
Sullivan Negro must stand trial for the killing of Milton Walker. Whitfield faces a 20 degree murder indictment as the case proceeds in court.
Grand jury session in Sullivan county resulted in five indictments and one ignoramus after four days of testimony. George W. Leach faces two city and two circuit liquor charges, with prior release on bond from Terre Haute. Charles Anders pleaded guilty to petit larceny and received a Michigan City prison sentence. County jail and infirmary reports praised but urged improvements including safe insane care and better food storage. Deputy sheriffs and police arrested Leach after liquor raid. federal indictments also filed in Indianapolis.
Mary Briggs is the guest of Mrs. Helen Mahley after the death of Mes.
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