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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1920
Page
8
A garbled column recalls anecdotes about George Washington and the cherry tree, a banker with risky earnings, and various oddities. Slips of memory mix with jumbled names, local rumors, and scattered old-time references to deaths, funerals, and travelers.
Ad urges immediate wallpapering before spring rush. Promotes wide patterns and grades and stresses best values in Sullivan. Offers flooring makeover to refresh old rooms with new looks.
The text mixes retail mentions with a prohibition theme and nursery rhyme style. It references a Rexall store on the south side and a bootstrap liquor trade. A humorous verse notes a bootlegger laughing at his price for wood alcohol.
A collage of satirical observations on voting rules and gender norms, March weather, and political jabs. Notes hint at ballot security, beer tax figures, Elks, Kaiser, Woodrow Wilson, lumber prices, and county candidates, framed as wry country column chatter.
The statement portrays Carrie Chapman Catt as honest and non partisan, expressing agreement with every act and word of President Wilson. It parodies old sayings about discernment and notes frustration with the President's cabinet having too many outlets.
A Grube Smith Company wagon moves a load of Mrs. Leach Sullivan belongings to Oxford New York. Embargo on eastern freight blocks rail, forcing the overland trek through snow across Indiana and Ohio with a late Friday departure from Terre Haute.
A pre press market sheet from union dealers lists current figures for hay wheat flour corn oats beef cattle calves hogs sheep eggs hens roosters and other commodities. Included are per ton and per bushel rates for hay and wheat and retail barrel and sack prices for flour. Prices cover livestock by weight and state typical ranges for hides feathers and iron per hundred pounds.
A list of marriage licenses shows Ruel Pigg 25 and Eliza Broshears 19 of Shirley Till and Jericho. Percy Brown 22 and Nelle Wall 19 of Pleasantville and Carlisle. Gilbert Bilzegaio 25 and Dera Burns 18 near Hymera and Coalmont. Joy Tomes 23 and Helen Grable 19 of Shelburn. Ora Phillips 26 and Zarah Moore 20 of Dugger. Millard Noel 27 and Lela Trueblood 19 near Fairbanks. Claude Dix 31 and Anna Skaggs 19 of Hutsonville Merom.
Friends gathered at the home of Mrs. Wilber Downer on Tuesday February 24, 1892 with well filled baskets to celebrate her fifty first birthday. Attendees included Mrs Roe Nell Mrs Edna Kaufman Mrs Bowen Ella Curtis Grace Webb Hazel Kaufman Kathryn Goins and Faye Bowen. The group enjoyed Edison music and reported a delightful afternoon with best wishes for many more birthdays.
Fairbanks defeats Sullivan Mutuals 30 to 16 in game three of a three game series at the YMCA in Terre Haute, securing the 1919 county championship. The contest was a hot, competitive basketball battle, and the victory establishes Fairbanks as the county champions.
Mrs Arthur Chapman and children of Mankato Minnesota are visiting the former’s parents Mr and Mrs D A Bedwell northeast of the city.
The Rev. A A Cohn, pastor of the Princeton Baptist church, has resigned and will become pastor at the Sullivan Baptist church. He and his family will occupy the newly purchased parsonage at Harris and South Section streets in Sullivan.
Dave Scot and wife and children moved from the Burkholder farm southeast of Shelburn to a newly established farm near Dugger, marking a rural relocation within the county.
Card of thanks to friends and neighbors for kindness during the illness and death of our wife and mother. Signed Mort Pogue and children.
Miss Glenn Yeager reports a week of weather for the county ending February 24 with clear and cloudy days. James R. Riggs visits Washington on agriculture business. Miss Louise Riggs arrives to visit. Advertised letters listed for Sullivan post office. Bainbridge Colby named secretary of state, succeeding Robert Lansing, in Wilson administration surprise move.
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