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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1917
Page
4
The Daily Times notes the new city park is open and mentions a 1916 gravel road repair outlay of 66 600 dollars. It accuses clerical errors of overpayments by road superintendents and blames an adding machine for county accounting slips. The paper asserts the matter is a democratic affair with parties revealing details.
Elmer McKee, once of this city and now in Weed California, writes that he visited Mrs Russell Boles and family in Sacramento. Their two grown sons include one who returned from the Mexican border with the California state militia and another serving as secretary for the Standard Oil Company in Sacramento. Russell Boles is in New Mexico where he leads a band.
Paxton miner Thomas Healey was arrested Friday night by Deputy Sheriff Otho Brodie on a grand jury indictment for illegal sale of intoxicating liquor. He was released on a 250 dollar bond.
In Sullivan County Indiana in 1917 a quiet title suit is filed in Sullivan Circuit Court by Fannie McCammon and Isaac Shannon et al. against nonresident defendants to bar title to the south half of the southwest quarter of section 1, township 6 north, range 9 west, with May 7, 1917, as the appearance deadline. The notice seeks residents' appearance and defense, or the complaint will be heard in their absence.
Philo Gubb investigates a series of mysterious letters sent to Miss Petunia Scroggs and suspects a neighbor, Mrs. Canterby, of tampering. By tracing ink, paper, and a torn page 14 clue, Gubb pieces together a playful plot that ends with Petunia’s romantic advance and Gubb fleeing to avoid an unwanted match.
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