Local Notes From Sullivan Area Headlines
Brief items recount visits and chatter around Sullivan. Mentions include Shorty Sproatt of Oaktown Aurora and Alton, Meram flag-raising, Doc Parker pneumonia, winter remedies for frozen feet, Ward Hawkins visit to Terre Haute, Christopher Wardner and Ed Dailey county patrol talk, Ralph Strawn of Rexall traveling to Hymera Shelburn, car with rattling skeletons on tin roof, Pete Barco and Billy Crowder ordering new golf clubs, Wampus Metcalf seen on area highways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meram
Doc Parker
Ralph Strawn
Rexall
Hymera
Shelburn
Johnny’s Pie Lying Tale Sparks Parental Scolding
A humorous poem recounts Johnny stealing pie and claiming he cannot tell a lie after his dad enters. The father disciplines him for the misdeed, turning the moment into a light domestic vignette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Eagle Island Association cleanup yields two mishaps
A weekly Eagle Island cleanup produced two minor injuries as Cuppy Stratton jabbed a fork into his shin and Charles Bedwell was struck in the left eye by a mulberry tree uprooting attempt. Other notes include local curiosities and travel mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Island Association
Cuppy Stratton
Alimentary Canal
Charles Bedwell
Supds Welcome for Subscriptions Pay Reminder
A brief notice urges readers to pay subscriptions and welcomes any succor via Supds.
Hoosier Slang Seen as Class Marker in Sullivan Pewter Lingo
A reckless excerpt from Sullivan's 400 reveals a hoosier tongue blending lisp and skid, likened to Goowash. Native Hoosiers find the speech smelling of talcum powder and rose water, with lines like Thawt you Awleen and Whithah ah we off foh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mawbery
Reginald
Sullivan County Cases In The Supreme Court
A retrospective look at the Terre Haute Draw bridge Co v Halliday and related Sullivan County legal matters. The piece details a $3,750 verdict for boat owners in the Wabash river obstruction case, notes trial outcomes, and recalls canal and elderly county figures and cases from 1850s Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan County
Supreme Court
Terre Haute Drawbridge Company
Halliday Et al
William H
Wabash
William H. Day
Terre Haute
Lafayette
Logansport
New Orleans
Evansville
Vincennes
Indiana
Jones
Greene
Cavins
Isaac Blackford
G. G. Dunn
W. T. Octo
David McDonald
Jeremiah Sullivan
Samuel R. Cavins
R. W. Cavins
Sex
Indianapolis
Aden Cavins
Sullivan Coumty
Trustees of the
Canal
Bledsoe
Pigg
Vigo
Camsal
5Th Indiana
Joseph Pigg
William Bledsoe
John Shaw
Pigg and Bledsoe
Wabash and T Rie
Clay Counties
Bischof
Coffelt
Suit House of
Cincinnati
Middle West
Lingheimer
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Sullivan County Loan and Trust Co
John C. Chaney
Citizens Trust Building
W. H. Eaton
Sherman Building
the National Bank Sullivan, Ind
Court House
Shorty Sproatt
Oaktown
Aurora
Alton
Sullivan
Ward Hawkins
Christopher Wardner
New Lebanon
Gill’s Prairie
Ed Dailey
Pete Barco
Billy Crowder
Idlewold Country Club
Wampus
Metcalf
Sal
Harry Buff
North Gill
Ray Bicknell
Broadway
Frank Marvelous Dale
Oklahoma
Frank
John Ersinger
John
Terre Heure
Cramer
Lieutenant Lord
Willie
Dude” Hill
W. B. Reduso
Reduso
Weingarten Bros., Inc
New York
W.B
Chicago
the Peoples Store
M. A. Haddon
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