Residents Move and Social Life in Big Springs
James Durham and wife moved to a new home last week. Mrs. Manning and daughter relocated to Terre Haute. Ray Harris visited his sister in Farmersburg, and Josie Eno spent Sunday with the Durhams. Emerson Watson's family visited Charles Badger, and Dr. Durham with son Tom were in Merom. Most farmers are finishing wheat cutting as Ross Turman to operate the Big Springs Company threshing crew this season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Durham
Allie Watson
Constance Pleasant
Merom
A. G. Cushman
S. E. Hatten
Ural Watson
Ross Turman
Big Springs Company
Ben Pogue
Will Coppage
Robert Crow
Tom Medsker
Union Chapel
Mattie Cruzan
Wayne
Racine
Wis
Don Johnson
John Pittman
Ray Scott
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Advertisement Claim
One hundred dollar reward offer for catarrh cures with Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Claim describes 35 years of use and blood flow action to mucous surfaces. Promotes improved health after short use and invites testimonials. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Hail
F. J. Cheney & Coo
Ohio
Graysville Notes Highlight Local Red Cross Efforts And Visits
Blanche Claypool spends summer with her mother. Helen Phillips visits Leanore Irvin. A box of material is sent to the Red Cross workshop for garments and appliances. Thirty three ladies attended last Friday with much work done. more help is urged to aid the war effort. Several families visit Harry Knox. dining guests include Mr. and Mrs. A N L Burton and others from Lake City Florida. Knox moves drilling outfit to Bicknell farm north of town. Trustees plan a day to clean church lots as weeds overrun the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Claypool
Helen Phillips
Leanore Irvin
Red Cross
Florence Riggs Cameron
Byron
Archibald
Opal Woodard
Marie
Della Riggs
Fairbanks
Harry Knox
Nannie Bicknell
Goldie
Lou Patton
A. N. L. Burton
Joseph Gray
Mary Roberts
Lake City
Florida
Bicknell Farm
Parker
Local Harvest Notes and Social News From Merom Area
Reports on wheat harvests and good yields in the locality with many small acreages. Visits and social news include Kellys of Merom at Will Gastons, Empey film in Terre Haute, pig prize at Sullivan, family gatherings across Farmersburg Hutsonville and Plat Rock. Births noted for Ray Scott and Orph Kigen. Reflective poem ends the column.
Local social notes note visits and resignations
Last week and weekend engagements include Mr and Mrs Roy Myers hosting guests, Miss Zylpha Jackson declining a teaching post and seeking civil service work, and numerous visits among families such as the Morins Parrotts and Badgers. A dissenting group of horse traders faces possible action to halt use of school grounds for camping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Myers
J. F. Burton
Farmersburg
James M. Moore
Sullivan
Zylpha Jackson
Myrtle Conley
Monta Helen
Seymour
Will Yager
C. O. Morin
Prairieton
Ind
O. M. Deal
Odon
James Morin
Thomas Morin
Paxton
Ed Alsop
Mr. Ross
Joseph Gray
Erasmus Parrott
Terre Haute
Fairbanks News Local Socials and Incidents
Fairbanks reports visitors from Clinton and Park County relatives with social visits. John C. Gross fell from a barn loft but escaped with minor injuries. Noah Scott collided with a boy on a bicycle, injuring only a mangled foot. A gasoline stove explosion at Dr. Bland’s caused little damage and no injuries. Bert DeHart arrived in town. Regular services held at Fairbanks Baptist Church led by Rev. Oliphant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lulu Pound
Smyra Johnson
Ralph Johnson
Clinton
Olen Russell
John C. Gross
Noah Scott
Terre Haute
Scott
H. E. Bland
Advertised Letters in Sullivan Postoffice June 26 1918
List of letters remaining unclaimed in Sullivan Indiana Postoffice as of June 26 1918 including Miss Edna Adams Mrs L Frye Miss Nancy Mayes and Messrs J S Henderson Geo Hunt Emil Krause Mathew Jenkins and Wm Neal. Unclaimed letters will be sent to the Dead Letter Office if not called for within two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan, Ind
Adams
Edna Brickey
L. Frye
Ralph Jenkins
Matt. Neal
Wm. Mayes
Nancy Patterson
Mary Gents
Weather of a Week in Farmersburg
Miss Glenn Yeager records the week ending June 23 with sunny days on the 17th 18th 21st 22nd and 23rd, partly cloudy on the 19th, cloudy on the 20th, and 15 inches of rainfall on the 20th. Temperatures ranged from 57 to 84 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmersburg
Glenn Yeager
Co-Operative Weather Observer
Crowning Glory in a Moonlit Reunion
Constance, aging with silvery hair, revisits a past love from a Staunton party. He recalls their colonial night and the white hair that astonished him, and in moonlit garden they meet again. He tells her her hair is her crowning glory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constance
Della
Constance Gail
Stauntons
Fragmented Note on Knowledge and Relations
A compact musing on how understanding reduces hostility and improves relations. It argues that more intimate knowledge calms bias and helps motions and individuals form better ties.
Eyes Need Regular Care to Prevent Suffering
A public note stresses neglect of eye health leads to many woes. It urges systematic checks and timely relief to reduce unnecessary suffering, urging awareness and action to protect vision.
Posthumous Growth in Art Works Cited
Louisville Courier Journal notes that good work endures after death, citing Rubens who left about 2006 pictures but 10000 circulate now proving enduring artistic value. The piece emphasizes lasting impact of creative output beyond the creator’s lifetime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rubens
Louisville Courier-Journal
The Proverb of Success
A proverb about wealth contrasts earning by effort with earning from others work. The millionaire boasts of making hay while the sun shone and taking grass that grew under others feet. The quote implies success through opportunistic advantage.
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Fixer
Big Springs
Graysville
Riggs Clay Product Company
Indiana
Kingsley
John Kelly
Lois
Will Gaston’s
Edgar Strain
Rufus DeHart
the Grand
Thurman McDonald
C. F. Whitlock
Jessie Harrison
John Wisner
Elsie Peacher
County Pig Club
Kerr Coulson
Murray DeBaun
Will Gaston
Gaston
Francis
Martin Harris
Hosea Drake
Riggs
Ira Drake
Co. F. Whitlock
Hutsonville
Carl Lester
Plat Rock
Will Burton
Robert Johnson
Appel Pittman
James Pittman
Warren Dickerson
John Ramsen
Orville Taylor
Illinois
Charles Riggs
Ruth
Hervey Ridgeway
Will Thomas
Rosedale
Will Lester
Herman van Vieck
the Narrows
Tan
Aun
Oue
Silk Flags
Index Nation Co
Miller’s
Goodyear-Akron Lawn
Goodyear-Ashton
Akronawn Hose
Goodyear Akron
Gornegtions
Zed
Sullivan, Indiana
Western Newspaper Union
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