Graysville News Sketches and Local Visits
Graysville people report visits to Terre Haute by H J Ridgeway and relatives from Staunton Virginia. The evangelist Bro Bradley held services and crowds have been good. The Yager family reunion is planned at Merom bluff on July 1. Local students attend the State Normal while heat waves affect outdoor activity. A playful note about ice cream cones and post office delivery appears in local humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bro. Bradley
Thomas H. Moore
Yager
Merom Bluff
Earl Monk
Golden Monk
Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims four decades of relief
For over 40 years Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been used to treat catarrh. The product combines a local ointment that relieves inflammation with an internal tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. Sold by all druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Pleasantville Sunday School Notes and Local Visits
The M. F E Sunday school drew 95 attendees. Brother Peel attended the Indianapolis Sunday school convention. Mr. and Mrs. D R Newkirk dined with Mrs. Booker. The young men’s class held an ice cream social to fund the new piano. Mrs. Jake Adams and her son from Hammond Ind visited relatives. Ellis Page, home for the summer from Terre Haute, spent the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. R. Newkirk
Booker
M. E
Jake Adams
Hammond
Ind
Ellis Page
Terre Haute
Banquet in Township Honors Resigning County Agent H S Berison
Farm Bureau hosts a Monday banquet at the school house honoring H S Berison who has resigned as county agent. Community members attend and many local families are mentioned in visits and gatherings across Farmersburg Sullivan and Clay City areas. The week includes funerals and family visits with notes on wheat cutting and welcome rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
H. S. Berison
Wanda Hood
Grandma Allen
Farmersburg
Levi Hall
Liberty
Dudley Hayworth
Fain Miller
Otto Jewell
Roy Jewell
Nema
Levi Jewell
Barnett Jr
Dora Taylor
Marie
Sullivan
Charles Dawson
Albert Harris
William Pittman
Lysle Mitchell
Harold Pittman
Olin Moore
Charles Cochran
Sam Engle
Blue Hole
Elza Harris
Floyd Taylor
Arthur Banfield
Clay City
Robert Wilkinson
N. E. Harding
Elmer Taylor
James Miller
Leslie Holmes
Fairbanks
Malcolm Harris
Grandma Harris
Oscar Phillips
David Dawson
Alvin Hood
Miners’ Brotherhood
Hymera
Chester Woodard
Sam Denny
Barnett Jewell Sr
Will Ferree
Sullivan Visitors Socialize Amid Hot Weather
Big Springs guests Emmett Nowlin and Sylvia Medsker, Mary Mann and mother, Warren and Minnie Watson, visited Saturday. Lee Pinkston and family visited Terre Haute Sunday. James Durham and wife hosted Indianapolis relatives last week. Warren Watson and grandchildren Josephine and Robert spent Sunday at B. W. Beard's. A heavy rain fell Tuesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmett Nowlin
Sylvia Medsker
Mary Mann
Warren Watson
Minnie Watson
Sullivan
Lee Pinkston
Terre Haute
James Durham
Indianapolis
Josephine
Robert
B. W. Beard’s
D A R Meeting At Walnut Wood Honors Ancestors
The June meeting of the Nathan Hinkle chapter of the D A R was held at Walnut Wood the home of Mrs Elizabeth Pirtle. The program included singing America flag salute history of Flag by Mrs Pirtle biography of Nathan Hinkle by Mrs Marion Willis and the initiation of Mrs James R Riggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Hinkle
Hymera
Mesdames Elizabeth, McClellan
Elizabeth Pirtle
S. E. Lindley
Garland Scott
Marion Willis
J. E. M. Purcell
James R. Riggs
Orion B. Harris
Edna Calvert
J. H. Miller
Louise Riggs
National
National Board
Look Up Ward Quotation Echoes in Boston Transcript
A reflective line notes the burden of regret when past and future offer little solace and frames hope in a higher regard. The Boston Transcript attributes the insight as a measured golden doorway from memory to aspiration.
Vision and Civic Duty in Town Welfare
A call to overcome selfishness and see beyond personal gain. The author likens self centeredness to a Chinese wall of ignorance that blocks understanding of others needs and hinders the town’s progress and communal development.
Branded Buffalo Mystery From Ute Legend
Buckskin Charley tells how the Gosiute hunting party found branded buffalo in southern Colorado near the Twin Peaks. The brands, unreadable to all, sparked fear that the beasts belonged to hidden gods of the Twin Peaks, leaving the meat uneaten.
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White Mountain
Twin Peaks
Southlands
Manitou
Ignacio
Complet Sign and Paris Street Car Joke
A Youth's Companion remark describes Paris street cars when full. The driver hangs a Complet sign so no one else boards. Tourists hear tales of the wonders of Complet and seek a car to go abroad, waiting and later enjoying the joke.
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Paris
The Show Girl Confesses Skipper Role in Sailor Chorus
The Show Girl recalls performing as a skipper in the chorus of sailors aboard the Bad Ship Rollingstone, while her admirer wonders if she was among the crew. She corrects him with a playful denial and a boastful claim about skipping.
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Rollingstone
Opium Gift to Famine Sufferers Reported in Moscow
A Russian paper says Prince Dava, envoy of Mongolia, arrived in Moscow with two chests of opium as a gift for famine victims. The report frames the act as relief but notes the controversial nature of distributing opium.
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Prince Dava
Moscow
Airship Hangar Could House Large Office Building
Scott Field Illinois hosts a steel glass airship hangar costing over 2 million dollars. The 825 by 225 foot structure could shelter a 10 story office building with a 50 foot roof tower and operates with electric rail guided doors.
Advertised Letters in Sullivan Postoffice June 27 1923
List of letters remaining unclaimed in the Sullivan Indiana post office on June 27 1923. If not called for within two weeks they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office. Ladies list includes Miss Anavy Davis Mrs S Hults Mrs Zora Lucas Shaw Mrs Flossie. Gents list includes B C Fishe Clyde Maddox Andrew McKinney Tom Rogers O D Sutphin W M. When calling for these letters say Advertised and give date.
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Sullivan, Ind
Postoffice
Davis
Anavy. Hults
S. H. Lucas
Zora, Shaw
Flossie
Former U C C President Joins Colorado College
Dr. C. B. Hershey once led Union Christian College Merom earned an E.D. from Harvard last month and teaches at Defiance College. He will move to Colorado Springs this fall to serve as dean of men and education professor at Colorado College.
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C. B. Hershey
Union Christian College
Merom
Harvard University
Defiance College
Defiance
Ohio
Dudley sells residence on South Court to Dr Corbin
Clell Dudley has sold his house on South Court Street to Dr. E M Corbin. The property was formerly the R A Plunkett residence and studio.
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Clell Dudley
South Court Street
E. M. Corbin
R. A. Plunkett
Seventeen Year Locusts Seen in Indiana This Year
Indiana faces a rare emergence as seventeen year locusts likely appear in Brown County and nearby counties including Tippecanoe and Clark. Entomologists Dietz and Marlat explain the lifecycle with subterranean larvae lasting seventeen years and above ground singing and mating for a brief period.
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Indiana
Harry D. Dietz
Charles Lester Marlat
Washington, D. C
Brown County
Dietz
Derborn
Floyd
Fountain
Grant
Herrison
Johnson
Lake
Monroe
Morgan
Orange
Perry
Putnam
Ripley
Scott
Sullivan
Tippecanoe
Warrick
Washington
Wayne
Mr. Dietz
Church Stairs Cause Injury to Mrs Price
Mrs C E Price sustained painful injuries Sunday evening after a fall on the Methodist church stairway to the basement.
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C. E. Price
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R. H. Richard
Peerless
Graysville
H. J. Ridgeway
Inlaw
Elizabeth Conner
Staunton
Feller
Max Billman
Pleasantville
M. FE
Brother Peel
South Main St
I. C
Tall Majar
J. A. Hash
Dougherty & Walters
Township
Big Springs
Boston Transcript
Ford C. Frick
Buffalo
Scott Field
Army Air Service
Popular Mechanics
MAGA
Western University
Jove
Atlantic Ocean
New York
London
Atlantic
United States
Europe
Hompson le Hoosier Bargain Stores
Colorado College
Illnoois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
K. Dietz
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