Big Springs Community News Note
Big Springs residents report on the K K K parade at Sullivan on Thursday night and church services at Merom Sunday. Farmers face flooding with corn ground and rice wheat under water. Local gatherings include a play at U C College and a Sunday school convention at Graysville. Sunday school starts at 9 30 with aimed good attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan
Warren Watson
John Warren
Bobbie
Merom
Gault Pleasant
Bertha Rockwell
C. E. Watson’s
Cora Dix
Tom Durham
Emerson Watson
Ella
Josie Eno
A. G. Cushman
Maude Watson
U. C. College
Big Springs
Graysville
Merom Area Social Notes Highlight Visits and Wedding
Merom residents hosted visitors from Clinton Bald Knob Lebanon and Indianapolis over the weekend. A wedding united Myrtle Hunt and Cecil Phillips at the Christian parsonage with Rev Treber officiating. Domestic Science students marked Mabel Alexander's birthday with a luncheon in the college hall.
Local Happenings Turn Weekend With Friends And Events
Sherman St Clair and daughter Miss Mary visited Mrs Maude Burke Sunday. Mrs Arminta Stoddard returned to Merom after year with Orren Stoddard in Seattle and with James Stoddard in Beverly Hills. The Dramatic Art Class of U C C presented Stop Thief directed by Prof Ferguson to a full house Friday. Emory Wright and family of Terre Haute joined Mr and Mrs Wm Burke at their home Sunday. Opal Bratton and Maurice Bratton of Winegate visited aunt Mrs E W Berry. Merom residents saw the Ku Klux Klan parade in Sullivan Thursday night. Ruth Lemon hosted her mother Mrs Lemon of Lebanon. Rev Hazel Lindley spoke at Graysville school convention. Royal Neighbors members attended a district meeting Wednesday. River bottoms flooded and the river still rising. Memorial sermon will be preached Sunday by Rev Ernest Treber in the M E church. Treber and family, Charles Lindley and wife, Hazel Lindley, and Augustus Creager and family were guests of John Creager Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ander
Sherman St. Clair
Mary
Maude Burke
Arminta Stoddard
Merom
Orren Stoddard
Seattle
Wash
James Stoddard
Beverly Hills
California
Dramatic Art
F. M. Ferguson
College
Emory Wright
Terre Haute
Harry Hubble
Wm. Burke
Opal Bratton
Maurice Bratton
Winegate
Ind
Ernest Treber
Christian Church
M. E
Charles Lindley
Hazel Lindley
Augustus Creager
John Creager
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Advertised
For over 40 years Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been used in treating Catarrh. The product includes an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation. Sold by all druggists F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Local family visits spread across township lines
Miss Elsie Marts spent a few days with grandmother Mrs. Lydia Woodard. Mr. and Mrs. Elza Harris and children were guests of Floyd Taylor and family. Lena Marrison of Terre Haute visited Otto Jewell family. Emory Smith and her son Marion Harrison accompanied her home for a visit. Hud Hill and Harold Marts hosted on Sunday near Farmersburg. Edgar Bolinzer and others noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Marts
Lydia Woodard
Elza Harris
Floyd Taylor
Lena Marrison
Terre Haute
Otto Jewell
Emory Smith
Marion Harrison
Hud Hill
Harold Marts
Farmersburg
Edgar Bolinzer
Market Protection for Farmers and Tariff Advocacy
The piece argues for a protective tariff to shield American agriculture from cheap labor, land, and currency abroad. It claims farming is now an industry requiring science and business methods, with tariffs preserving a higher wage, land value, and home market. It warns reductions would flood markets with cheap imports from Russia, South America, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
South Australia
New Zealand
Russia
South America
Black Sea
Agricul
Tural
Birthday celebration and Sunday activities in Shelburn area
J R Miller marked his sixty ninth birthday with relatives and friends on Sunday. Visitors included the Baldings, Adams, McNeal, Miller, Holmes, and other families from Shelburn, Terre Haute, and Fountain, plus a Drake church Sunday school session and an American Legion memorial service with the school orchestra planned after.
Flooding Persistes Across Harrison Bottoms and Local Life
The river continues to rise covering Harrison bottoms with extensive corn losses and delayed farming. Community notes record church vacation for Rev. George Fuson, Kian teass attendance in Sullivan, road work on Parmon, and family visits. Local events include Epworth League formation, a Sunday school convention with 191 attendees, and a sacred drama at the high school. Grants for the township’s sewer updates and ongoing street project chaos in Graysville mark a period of growth and disruption.
Local church service notes and community updates
Mrs Guy Cushman and Mrs. Carl Lester led vocal numbers at the Graysville Kingsley service with Dr. Toole and Rev. T. B. Avery presiding at the Lord's supper. Ira Drake and Edgar and Lawrence Strain were in Sullivan on Tuesday. the article also warns about Treasury Savings Certificate scams and promotes the Producers Commission Association's vehicle for livestock consignments and patronage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Cushman
Graysvile
Carl Lester
Kingsley
Toole
T. B. Avery
Ira Drake
Edgar
Lawrence Strain
Sullivan
John McKinney
Altha Shaffer
Will Laughrey
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Peerless
Lex Arnett
Clinton
Clem Arnett
Wm. Thornton
Bald Knob
Ark
Pauline Zenor
W. H. Zenor
Fern Bishop
Lebanon
M. Guankenbush
Oblong
Ills
Anna Buff
Elihu Stanley
North of Town
Ray Harris
Indianapolis
Tom Gray
Jake Delaney
Centralia
Ill
Iva Mitchell
Eaton
Blanche White
James Daniels
Sadie Ridgeway
Rebekah Grand Lodge
Don Houpt
Hutsonville
Houpt
Myrtle Hunt
J. E. Hunt
Cecil Phillips
Township
Dougherty & Walters
Robert Balding
Jessie Adams
William Balding
Clifford
North Terre Haute
William Balding Jr
Fountainer
David McNeal
Isaac Miller
Shelburn
Leslie Holmes
Fairbanks
James Miller
Elmer Taylor
Drake Church
Harrison
George Fuson
Carruthers
Ca! Parmon Road
C. F. Whitlock
Merle
Will Thomas
Will
Mary Foutz
Tom and Kern Medsker
Jessie Harrison
Flora Foutz
Will Foutz
Medsker
C. E. Thomson
Wo Thomson
Grover Scott
Artis Willam
Scott Fuller and
Olin Russell
Prairie Creek
Epworth League
Union Maen TI 8
Bro
Avery
Turman Township
John Borden
Lindley
Ham Burton
East Street
Jas. Moore
A. Yager
Flem Rankin
J. W. Medsker
Andy Borders
W. R. Ransford
Newt Burton
John Setzer
Joe Gray
LUXOR
THE
Hoosier
Maxwell-Brown
Newton
Tete Ase
Dele Orne
Treasury Savings
Producers Commission Association
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Star and Sullivan Union
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