Local church events and community visits noted
KNGSLEY farmers sow corn while residents attend church services and visits. Mrs Edgar Strain and children drive to Terre Haute. The Women's Foreign Missionary Society meets. Graysville commence ment causes Monday prayer meeting. Doctors visit from Terre Haute and Sullivan attend to illnesses. Baccalaureate sermons hailed at Fairbanks and Hymera. Multiple guests and family visits occur across Farmersburg Sullivan Hymera Terre Haute and Shelburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Strain
Terre Haute
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
C. F. Whitlock
Graysville
C. E. Thomson
James Pittman
Crowder
Sullivan
Clare Merrill
Hosea Drake’s
Werren Dickerson
J. W. Ransom
Rufus DeHart
Merle
Francis Whitlock
J. H. Paddock
Hymera
Ray Trueblood
Clare
Elmer Trueblood
Charles Morris
Shelburn
Isaac Kennett
Farmersburg
Oscar Kennett
Benson Chapel and Local Social Roundup
Local notes report Frank Benson transacting business in Sullivan on Monday. Families visit and travel details include the Wernz family from Terre Haute, Osburns, and neighbors who attended a Graysville play, plus trips to Kenosha Wisconsin and Purdue. Several residents attend lodges, Farm Bureau meetings, and hospital recovery updates through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Benson
Sullivan
Charles Wernz
Demas
Elizabeth Wernz
Terre Haute
Geo. W. Osburn
Graysville
Ruby Knowles
Eugene Woodard
Pauline Osburn
Emmett Thornberry
Kenosha
Wis
Charles Osburn
Township social notes list multiple local visitors
Miss Mabel Hood hosted a Monday night at Esther Stevens near Farmersburg. Frank Wilson of Washington Indiana visited Will Jewell’s family. Olin Moore is on the sick list. Oral Harris family visited Ford Hall. Roy Jewell family visited Otto Jewell. Chester Woodard visited Terre Haute last week. James Miller family visited Leslie Holmes near Fairbanks and David Dawson. Sam Engle and wife were Sullivan visitors. Reverend Arthur Brinklow of Pimento.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pink Hood
Hymera
Alvin Hood
Chas. Wilson
Maxine
Terre Haute
Will Jewell
Jerry Barcus
Geneva
Chester Woodard
Carrie Jones
Farmersburg
Dudley Hayworth
Sullivan
Willie Webb
Tennessee
Caleb Webb
Will Pattlan
Hosea Weaver
Hamet Boone
Sam Taylor
Floyd Taylor
Mabel Hood
Esther Stevens
Frank Wilson
Washington
Ind
Olin Moore
Oral Harris
Ford Hall
Dallas
Roy Jewell
Nema
Otto Jewell
James Miller
Leslie Holmes
Fairbanks
David Dawson
Oscar Phillips
Sam Engle
Arthur Brinklow
Pimento
T H Star and Union 1 Year Subscription Notice
A newspaper notice announces a one year subscription rate of four dollars for T H Star and Union. The item states payment terms and how to subscribe, with reference to the newspaper's reader services.
Miss Georgia Ransford given mountains teaching account in Graysville
In Graysville midweek service honored Miss Georgia Ransford who spoke on teaching in eastern Kentucky. A light luncheon followed. The town notes a strong Sunday school turnout of 121 and mentions local visits, graduates, and community happenings including travel to Washington and concerns about village parking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia Ransford
Kentucky
Leo Phillips
Canton
Ohio
Helen
Harold Jarvis
Hervey Ridgeway
Washington
Ind
Virginia Harris
Shelburn
Vernor Taylor
Alex Raley
J. B. McKinney
John Border
Elmer Huff
Tom
Harry
J. H. Alsman
Laura Burton
Vesta Yager
Mildred Shields
Ham Burton
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Offered For Over Forty Years
For over four decades Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been marketed for catarrh. The remedy includes an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic that works through the bloodstream to reduce mucous membrane inflammation. Sold by all druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Fire Destroys Landmark Riggs Home on Alexander Street
The old Riggs residence facing the Public Library on Alexander street was destroyed by fire in the early hours Friday. A two story seven room landmark, it stood the longest in town and traces its timber to virgin forests. For over fifty years it belonged to Benson Riggs and heirs and more recently housed Samuel Riggs. Local memory recalls it standing seventy to a hundred years prior to today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riggs
Alexander Street
Benson Riggs
Samuel Riggs
Joe Whalen
Old Pension Records Reveal Two Women Masqueraded as Soldiers
Washington April 23 The Pension Bureau reports two women served as private soldiers in Revolutionary and Civil War times. Deborah Gannett of Massachusetts fought under the name Robert Shurtleff and was wounded at Tarrytown. Albert D. J. Cashier, born Hodgers, served in Illinois and fought at Vicksburg Nashville and many battles. Both were pensioned and later died, Cashier in 1915.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of the Interior Pension Bureau
United States
Deborah Gannett
Massachusetts
Henry Jackson
Robert Shurtleff
Tarrytown
Lord Cornwallis
Albert D. J. Cashier
Hodgers
95Th Illinois Infantry
Belvidere
Vicksburg
Jackson
East Meridian
Red River
Fort de Russey
Old River
Cloutierville
Quincy
Boone
Kankakee
Livingston
Illinois
Lish
Saunemin
Ill
Watertown
Ilinois
Mrs Flissie Lucas Dies After Burn Injury at Indian Prairie
Mrs Flissie Lucas wife of Elmer Lucas of near Indian Prairie died Thursday afternoon following burns when her dress caught fire from an open grate Tuesday morning. Survived by husband three children Robert a Jefferson township schoolteacher Mary aged three and siblings Bert Lind L M Howard C B Lind Ray Lind Walter Lind and Mrs Fred Lynch Funeral held at Indian Prairie Baptist Church and burial in Indian Prairie cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flissie Lucas
Elmer Lucas
Indian Prairie
Lucas
A. J. Lind
Vail Wins License for Marriage to Eva Bedwell
Charles A. Vail a 21 year old minister from Turman Township Sullivan County Indiana obtained a license from Buren Mills county clerk to wed 17 year old Eva Agnes Bedwell of LaMotte Township. The couple’s consent was provided by Mrs Fannie Christie and Rev McKown officiated at the Robinson Palestine parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vail-Bedwell Chailes A. Vail
Sullivan County
Ind
Buren O. Mills
Eva Agnes Bedwell
LaMotte Township
Vail
Turman Township
Fannie Christie
McKown
Robinson—Palestine Register
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Falls Cord
R. H. Richart
Peerless
Kngsley
Big Springs
Mann
Pauline Medsker
T. M. Durham
Indianapolis
Ray Watson
James Durham
Waveland
O. T. Collier
D. T. Cushman
Mary Medsker
Will Watson
Lawrenceville
Gault Pleasant
Dave Watson
S. E. Hatten
Nan Kelly
Merom
Warren Watson
Mary Mann
Purdue
Edna Pound
Dayne Watson
Mary
Farm Bureau
Warren
Township
T. H. Star and Union
BURD
Haddon
Carlisle News
Carlisle
Walter R. O’neal
Senate
Tilghman Ogle
Archer R. Orr
Ogle
Mary E. Ooyle
Edgar W. Curtner
Curtner
O’neal
Carrie Collins
Thompson
Hoosier
Citizens Trust
Tschepliak
Butchkavitch
Bennett
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