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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1913
Page
6
Seaf of R T Megibben of Huntingburg visited parents here and went to Terre Haute for Barnum & Bailey. Mrs Hattie M Harper of Merom to Florida. gymond Douthitt to Culver for Tri Mu convention. Local garden curiosities, anniversaries, weddings and rustling social news surround Sullivan area figures and families.
In the region a catarrh is claimed to be widespread and historically incurable until science reframed it as constitutional. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio is marketed as the only constitutional cure taken internally. The firm offers 100 dollars for any failing case and recommends its use with Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Dr Boon and family attended church at the Station Sunday. Lisman led services. Mr and Mrs Cramer traveled to Annapolis to attend Mr Newlin's funeral. Mrs Frank Buff and Mrs Cap Reid visited friends in Porterville. Ed Ward and children spent the weekend with relatives in Sullivan. Lin Root visited his parents. George Hubble bought a new automobile. Ed Wood worked at Paxton and visited Merom. Elizabeth Hatten returns from DeLand Florida. Root family visited son Lin in Robinson. Harbinson moved to the parsonage. Baughman to occupy his former house. Mrs Hubble and Mettie shopped in Sullivan. Gladys Buff visited Sullivan.
Big Springs notes show Fern Medsker and Frances Eno traveling to Indianapolis Saturday to enroll in a summer session. Among other items, Mary Medsker and Warren Watson sold sheep to R F Knotts, and O T Collier sold hogs to Scott and Harris on Saturday.
Rev Adams preached at Douglas Chapel Sunday night. Milo Flesher and family visited John Douglas. Willis Farrand's family hosted guests including Charles Woodsmall and John Farrand. Milo Flesher attended his sister Mrs Smith Hayhurst in Terre Haute after brain abscess surgery at Union Hospital. Zech Smith from Lawrenceburg Tenn visited relatives. Floy and Willie Wilkins have measles. Stephen Clark and Edith Woodsmall dined with Mr and Mrs John Douglas. Lewis Farrand visited Shelburn.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Deneve spent Sunday with them. Miss Iva Miller visited cousin Miss Edythe Bledsoe in Harrisville Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Wilson and their son were at Alonzo Mitchell's Sunday. Lilly Marshall of Antioch visited sister Mrs. Everett Rhodes for several days. Albert Gambill went to Sullivan on Sunday. George Deneve visited Atlas Sunday afternoon. Wiley Miller and his son Ira went to the Miller farm near Bloomfield.
Farmers report corn planting as the main activity while autos passing through Graysville suggest a good weekend haul for John D. The township Sunday school convention is set for the first Sunday in June at the Christian church. Ham Burton and his wife welcomed a son Sunday. Methodist church to hold a week of services this week. Frances Eno traveled to Indianapolis for six weeks of study. Apple crops look promising in the county. T. K. Cushman has his home repainted.
Jackson township held a Sunday afternoon convention at the Methodist church. Special services at the Methodist church were well attended Monday and Tuesday evenings with sermons by Rev. Gruber of Dugger Rev. Lisman of Sullivan Rev. Caylor of New Lebanon and J R Brown of Sullivan. The new choir and miners' quartette provided music for both services.
The old fire bell is relocated from its tower where it rang for more than a quarter century, ending a long tradition. Local records show the bell served the community through many alarms and events, marking the town’s firefighting history.
The city moves the 27 year old fire bell from the old town hall to the new city hall where an electric motor will ring it. Historical notes recall purchases in 1886, town officials, and early attempts at a fire department including a failed chemical engine test and later steam engine purchase.
Representative Cullop introduced measures for a $50,000 mussel hatching and fish culture station on the Wabash near Vincennes. He also outlined $109,000 for a Sullican federal building site and $65,000 to build on a government owned site at Linton.
County reports show oats near failure from drought with wheat at about 75 percent, timothy around 50 percent, and clover only fair. Corn planting continues with roughly one third in ground while Fairbanks and part of Curry townships enjoyed some rain last week.
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