Baldridge on Sick List in Farmersburg
Mrs. W S Baldridge is reported on the sick list in Farmersburg. The notice notes her illness without further details, reflecting a local community update.
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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1902
Page
8
Mrs. W S Baldridge is reported on the sick list in Farmersburg. The notice notes her illness without further details, reflecting a local community update.
Mrs John Creager is on the sick list and Mrs Chance was surprised by a door beckoning visit. Rev Pinnick preached at the M E church. Miss Minnick spoke in the Chapel. a matrimonial wave is hinted near the Banks of the Wabash. Mrs Martha Bennett died Feb 26 after illness. neighbors recall a noble Christian woman. The YWCA plans a Colonial Test night March 7 in College Chapel with costumed attendance and readings. A surprise party for Mrs Anna Buff occurred with friends bringing gifts. the Buffs plan to move to Palestine Illinois this week.
Mrs Will Bolinger and Mrs Ochiltree Carrithers are improved in health. Oliver Hiatt’s daughter from Greene county visits relatives. Rev Thos Cuppy preached at the Baptist church. W E Delashmutt returns from Baltimore soon. Miss Viola Riggs back from Indianapolis millinery opening. The McVicker Theater Co. played three nights at Red Men’s hall. Buck goes to Dugger to attend Mrs Daugherty’s remains. Shelburnites attend Katzenjammer Kids in Terre Haute. Mrs Chas Jones of Terre Haute returns home. Norton, patient in Terre Haute hospital, returns home. Seven or eight dogs killed by poison. others affected but saved by antidotes. Local concern over dog poison and its risks. Earl Kennedy and John Smock visit. Dorseys return from Ebenezer. Cecil Boston from Terre Haute visits. Miss Marie Hinkle from Sullivan visits. Mrs John R Allen and Minnie Manwarring go to Terre Haute. T Fox moved to city to clerk for Jennings & Taylor. Mrs Muir of Peoria visits. Epworth League missionary program draws large audience. Mary St John arrives from Cobb Okla to ship goods there. Women’s Foreign Missionary sock social success. Uncle Jackson Hinkle’s 87th birthday celebrated with many relatives and friends. attendees include Hinkle family and local doctors and visitors. Rev Brashear, Mr Reed and Floy Armstrong attend. wishes for many happy returns.
Local notes report clay roads becoming almost impassable. Several residents and visitors are named including Rex Claypool of U C C, Miss Hattie Turman in Marshall Illinois, Will Benefield and son Herbert in Sullivan, Jas E Yager and Pan Cushman for a Dayton Ohio firm, Miss Frost of Merom Junction, and Miss Hyman who closed a meeting at the hall. Revival services ended at Providence and Bro Pinnick will begin at Merom Saturday night. Esse Ransford plans to open his sugar camp soon. Miss Hyman has an engagement at North Salem next week.
Coal is the talk in the vicinity while Joe Broadie’s baby battles diphtheria. Si Davis was in Sullivan on Saturday. A protracted meeting closed Thursday night as William Alumbaugh boards with Mrs. Richard Llewellyn. Sut Town store serves the neighborhood, and C. C. Crawford thanks readers for his valentine. Everyone is urged to subscribe for the Union for full news.
Isaac Conner is improving slowly Hua Pittman remains very poorly. Mrs Will Reed visited her mother last week. Mrs Robert Burge is reported some better. Warrick Plew opened his sugar camp. Dave Hummell visited Flavia Rusher Sunday. School closes at the McKee next Friday March 7. Will Frakes and daughter May on the complaining list. Charley Hughes and Jim Nesbit still butcher. Byron Frakes and wife visited Terre Haute Friday and Saturday. Will Scott moved back to his old home southeast of Little Flock. Several from this vicinity attended church at Shelburn Sunday night. Mrs Clark Scott of Nebraska visiting her mother Mrs Robert Burge. Ruth Hawkins gone to live with her mother Mrs Will Goodman. Mrs Harrison Pittman staying with daughter Mollie Stratton who is very poorly. Mrs Will Goodman of Goodmans Chapel visited her mother Mrs Robert Burge last week. Township examination will be held at the McKee schoolhouse the third Saturday in March. Nellie Higbee and Mrs Wm Billman visited their brother Joe Higbee at Fairbanks Tuesday. Dolphs Thompson moved to Riley Drake farm northwest of Sullivan. Walter Leach and Osa Graham of Palmer s Prairie called on Nellie and Theresa Higbee. Sunday school at the McKee progressing slowly due to bad weather.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a newspaper called the Union as the best paper in the county and urges telling a neighbor about it. No clear event, date, or names establish a fuller story.
Joe McCoskey held a public sale last Saturday in Hymera. Several residents visited or traveled, including Albert Lane from Shelburn and Rev. M Price from Gilmore. Others moved or visited towns, with millinery plans noted for Mrs. Cummins and Mrs. Railsback. The east part of town saw land sales and new houses, a Centerville Hymera telephone link to No. 5 school, and Clarence Farley’s farm accident with a broken bone treated by Doctors Caffee and Thalls Jr.
In New Lebanon R K Houpt visits the city while the M W A remodels their hall. Revival meetings close with two accessions. The I O C F is booming locally and the M W A plans a Woodman play in mid March for funds. Mrs Admiral Dewey and Mrs Grover Cleveland will be here. March events listed include Bass Auditorium dates.
The Indiana Supreme Court held the gage deduction to real estate for mortgage indebtedness constitutional, allowing up to 700. The decision impacts about 80,000 taxpayers, with about 40 million dollars in property involved this year and potential refunds of nearly 1 million dollars if overturned.
On the Alford farm near Gran ger six miles northeast of Mishawaka a rich coal deposit has been found. A stock company with 100000 dollars capital formed to develop it. The vein is long and deep with unknown extent. Chicago and Indiana capitalists bid for land but gain none. Millions of tons said buried in the locality.
Vincennes Indiana February 28 jury in the Davis case returns a verdict in Davis's favor for 9000 after six hours of deliberation. Davis is congratulated by jurors and thanks them then tells his wife he expected the outcome and will press the other suits quickly.
Mrs Hannah Adams alias Sallie Adams alias Hannah Brown, 57, was arrested by U S Marshal Fletcher in Muncie for using the mails for fraudulent purposes tied to a matrimonial agency run through Daleville post office. Kissel is jailed in Noblesville for complicity. In Peru, a jury found Charles E Neathery guilty of manslaughter for shooting Henry Helmig after Helmig broke his saloon windows.
A gas pumping station of the Manufacturers' Gas company at Desoto six miles east of Muncie exploded yesterday. Engineer Burt Lee and oiler Albert Newkirk were fatally injured. The plant, valued at $40,000, was completely destroyed.
Brownstown Ind March 8 The jury after 60 hours of deliberation acquits Henry Huddleson of the murder of McKinney in a blackberry patch in Washington county last July.
The Indiana Journal markets itself as a reliable, comprehensive morning paper with extensive market reports, AP news, Washington correspondence, farm pages, sports, women’s features, and fashion coverage. It highlights early delivery, broad Indiana and national coverage, and affordable 10 cent weekly pricing.
Farmers and others paying an extra 30 cents with the Union can receive the New York Tribune Farmer by continued subscription. The paper is praised as the best farm journal known.
State of Indiana Sullivan County Circuit Court notices defendants May Dare Noble Taylor and Robert E. Taylor not residents of Indiana. They must appear and answer by April 19, 1902 at Sullivan Court House otherwise the case will proceed in their absence. Clerk Robert Taylor signed February 25, 1902 with Attorney J. H. Kalley.
March and April rail specials offer settlers rates from St Louis 30 and from Chicago 33 to California via Burlington Route through Denver and Salt Lake City. Through tourist sleepers to San Francisco and Los Angeles depart Wednesdays and Fridays. Coast trains run daily with free chair cars and homesekers excursions on the first and third Tuesdays. Write for details and printed matter. F M Rugg L W Wakeley etc St Louis MO.
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