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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1904
Page
8
Pleasantville residents report visitors from Carlisle and Vincennes. Dr. Alsman bought the B. McConnel brick house and is now settled there. Local deaths, church society talks, and social gatherings fill the week with Roberta Shake funeral and Mrs. McGyumpie of Vincennes attending the Ladies Foreign Missionary Society event.
Frances Kelly and daughter from Sullivan visited Dr. J. B. Maple and wife. Weal Lament arrived. Little Miss Nobody played to a fair audience at the Dugger opera house. Viela Riggs opened an ice cream parlor.
Merom notes include Atsumi returning from St Louis on Saturday and Prof Hatten with Mrs Harper visiting at Mrs Harper's Saturday. Miss Lina Woodworth returned from Terre Haute after commencement at State Normal. Mrs Miles, Dr Miles, and Prof Pleasant among recent visitors and guests in area. J H Brenneman took a new post at the World’s Fair Grounds. There will be a Linton picnic on the Fourth at the Bluff. Prof Ward traveled to Darlington and Anderson last week. Miss Ruby Litton visiting near Farmersburg with Miss VanCreave and Miss Nelle Springer in Merom Sunday afternoon. Chas Lilley and family of New Lebanon were guests here. Mr Roberts preached at Concord Friday night and at Phelps Ridge Sunday.
Douthitt the Clothier hosts a removal sale with fireworks sales at the Index Cheap Store and a free Kimball piano performance on July 4th. Reed & Batey promote the events and South Side Square hosts the celebration.
Members of Jerusalem Chapter R A M traveled to Brazil this afternoon at a special invitation from the Brazil lodge to confer the Royal Arch degree. Sullivan lodge is praised for its strong exemplification of the degree. The new Odd Fellows hall at Hymera will be dedicated next Friday evening. Attending Sullivan Lodge meeting were Shideler and Mercer of Bedford lodge, Malcolm H McColm of Columbus Ohio lodge, and Otto Gumberts of Evansville lodge.
Auction note states a Whitman Belt Power Press is available for sale with advertising of hay season profits. The terse listing mentions Matix, Turman & Riggs as contacts or sellers amid casual talk of making money from hay production.
Rain persists as harvest nears with community events including an ice cream supper in Graysville and a children's night. Local farmers report sick horses while James Huffis remains in serious condition and visitors travel between Doddville Merum and Big Springs areas.
A list of multiple proceedings including divorces, matters of guardianship, real estate sales, receiver appointments, and note actions involving parties such as Wiley Gambill, Charles Bryan, Samuel Bryan, J Frank Alumbaugh, Ella Parker, Lincoln Parker, Frank Wheeler, Fred Newton, William Johns, Henry Becker, Enterprise Store Co, Vincennes, Gertrude Marlow, Harve Marlow, Anton Heitz, Willard Huffman, Jordan, Susan McLure, James Bell, Bertha Anderson, Wiley A. Anders, Edward Baker, and others. Document covers petitions, damages, and conveyance actions across various cases.
Miss Estella Settle hosted a dinner Sunday in Carlisle Rural Route No 1. Guests included Hosea Snow of Hamilton and Ella Marshall of Cass township. Estella Settle will visit Ella Marshall during the first week of August.
A list shows multiple marriage licenses issued to couples including Mike Sievk and Elizabeth Mes Sanas, Andrew Mrack and Annie Sherb, Solon L. Treadway and Nancy J. Crawford, C. E. Thompson and Maude McKinney, Oba Bean and Lena Pinkston, John L. Robertson and Ada F. Davis, Merrill W. Neal and Myrtle M. Russell, Gus J. Bradbury and Mary Wimbly, David J. Beck and Anna Fu quay, Harvey Keneipp and Margar et May Dorsey, F. E. Norton and Elizabeth Anna Jefferson, Fred Kiest and Clara Critchlow. Reed & Batey advertise a free concert on July 4.
The Reed couple thank the fire company and townspeople for their interest in trying to save their property. Many thanks from Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Reed.
Notice to the public states exhibits on Monday the 4th will be hung on the public square and be prohibited. All stores will close from 12 to 5 p m.
Fragmentary notice requests inquiry about a Kimball piano reportedly lost near a fire location three miles south of a double breasted something. Details are unclear.
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