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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1903
Page
7
A testimonial focused on women’s health during menopause praising Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. The letter from Mrs. Lizzie Bowman claims the medicine cured pain and weakness, enabling daily work, and urges others to use it along with Pleasant Pellets to keep bowels healthy.
A misc edition lists Dr. P. A. Barco dentistry, furniture arrivals, and Evansville business notices. Otto Voss named general manager at Green Hill Coal. Mr Burnett joins Otto Krug as head salesman. Local deaths include Mrs. Malinda Kalley. street sidewalk needs cited near Central depot. mentions Miss Stewart and Miss Lucas visiting in Terre Haute.
The Sullivan public schools marked Washington's Birthday with patriotic songs and decorations in several rooms. Classes focused on the life of the Father of His Country with pictures of Washington, Lincoln and McKinley, while high school demonstrations occurred earlier.
Washington correspondent reports Indiana gains about five hundred new rural free delivery routes in the next fiscal year starting July 1. Total routes exceed one thousand now, rising to over fifteen hundred carriers statewide by year end, covering roughly three quarters of Indiana. Approximate annual appropriation is twelve million dollars, enabling eight hundred to one thousand new routes monthly. Indiana gets about one twentieth of new routes. counties may be covered wholly rather than scattered routes.
A local advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a universal cure for overwork sleeplessness nervous tension and collapse. It is hailed as an effective tonic and nervine that fights liver kidney disorders and maladies like rheumatism neuralgia and malaria. The ad claims satisfaction guaranteed by Joe K Smock Druggist.
An old fiddler’s contest will be held in the Carlisle opera house Saturday night March 28. Fourteen contestants are registered to compete for prizes including a fine clock and a parlor lamp. Participants play two pieces and may choose their own selections. An admission of ten cents, free for children under 12, funds the event.
Sap Shet No L offers one pound of California peaches with former price 15c and present price 9c at the White Front Grocery.
A brief item notes extra ripe California apricots offered at eight cents per pound at the White location. The notice emphasizes standard fruit sale pricing and availability.
The record shows yearly totals for boys and girls with counts near 330 and 334 respectively, a combined total around 22, daily attendance near 616.7, attendance percentage about 93, tardiness around 159, and corporal punishment noted at nine instances. Superintendent W. C. McCollough signs the report.
Union Christian College at Merom Indiana plans special courses for teachers and prospective instructors starting Tuesday March 24. The outline covers common branches, Reading Circle, Literature, Philosophy, Botany, Zoology, Methodology, Penmanship, Music, Algebra, and advanced work linked to regular college classes. Write to the president or secretary for the circular and catalogue.
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