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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1917
Page
4
The ad lists price rises for footwear: sizes 9 to 13 1-2 at $1.18 and up, sizes 1 to 5 1-2 at $1.48 and up, indicating a regional sale or catalog pricing strategy.
A historical Sullivan Indiana paper discusses wartime governance and political leadership. It cites President Wilson, Secretary Daniels, Theodore Roosevelt, and Congress while defending a bipartisan approach and critiquing current war management and congressional oversight.
Busy lawmakers in Washington endure constant chatter from individuals with personal fads. A couple of suffragists press Congressman Bland about woman suffrage, and he states his support for the amendment and for voting for it when the time arrives.
A quirky collection reports Dick Bledsoe seeking war exemption citing livestock dependency, Jim Slivers’s garden boasts but neighbors doubt, Aunt Sally Hawkins trades eggs for molasses and underwear, and a preacher’s absence leads to no services yet a horse shoe game draws a crowd. Court action looms as a farmer suit over apple sales to agents advances through Shoals and Sullivan counties.
James W. Bedwell sues Dr. August Pielmier of Vincennes for payment of automobile hire in fall 1915. The lawsuit seeks damages and settlement of alleged auto usage costs. Proceedings detail the claim and parties involved in this civil action.
The Shaker Prairie Christian church will be dedicated the first Sunday in July with all day and evening services and a basket lunch at noon. Bro. C. W. Cauble of Indianapolis delivers the dedication sermon at 10:30 a.m. and Bro. John McD. Horne of Sullivan speaks at 2:30 p.m. Special music accompanies the day and night services.
Assistant County Road Superintendents J. W. Cox and Roscoe Carruthers began oiling the state road south from Carlisle to the Knox county line and north from Carlisle along the Sullivan road to Paxton. A tank car of road oil was shipped for the work. The state road oiling will extend from the Knox to the Vigo county line, and County Supt Daily will oil an east west section from Merom through Sullivan and Dugger to the Greene county line.
Mrs. Dave Giles of this city became the first woman to register with the registration board at the courthouse Friday while County Auditor Frank M. Daniels was the first man to register.
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