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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1918
Page
5
Bank condition report shows assets including loans and discounts 199 555 89, cash on hand 41 820 00, U S bonds 6 500 00, other bonds 2 931 33, real estate 18 065 30, deposits 394 555 08, and reserves for Indiana taxes 1 122 43. Listed by officers G R Dutton president R W Akin cashier J T Akin vice president.
Graysville residents report a busy week with business calls and social visits. The community saw silo extensions by Bloomfield Concrete Silo Co and a strong early Red Cross drive with high participation and little opposition.
In Indiana farmers report spring rains slow planting while crops look healthy. Mt Calvary pastor Barnett preached his last sermon, with well wishes for his future. Community visits, Red Cross drives, Sunday school projects, and local tidbits from Farmersburg and Terre Haute fill the week’s bulletin.
An 19th century notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh by affecting the blood systems. A one hundred dollar reward is offered for any case not cured. The page also lists local social visits and minor notices from Merom Mervin Hutsonville and Warren Watson with several names and towns.
Sullivan chapter of Eastern Star hosted a reception Monday night for Georgia Bardsley the new Grand Matron of Indiana. Attendees included fourteen Sullivan lodge Past Matrons and Grand officers from Chesterfield and New Goshen with address by James R Brown Fred F Bays and a piano solo by Lovelace.
Official orders from the War Department require all men who reach 21 since June 5 1917 or by June 5 1918 to register for the draft on June 5 1918. Ward Hawkins chairs Sullivan county's local exemption board as registration hubs operate from city hall from seven in the morning to nine at night.
Mr. and Mrs. George Merrick of Tampa Florida, formerly of this city, were guests of Wake Giles and relatives Thursday and Friday en route to Hunts Station. Their son Frank Merrick is now in France serving as a lieutenant in a machine gun company. The visit occurred just before his departure overseas.
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