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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1913
Page
5
A brief note explains bread can be improved by using Royal Cream of Tartar Powder as a leavening or stabilizing agent. The instruction highlights its use in dough to achieve a lighter texture and better rise.
Rain needed for corn planting as farmers face poor soil conditions. Community members attend Barnum & Bailey in Terre Haute and visit kin in Shelburn and Fairbanks. Church events include Drake church services Kingsley prayer sermon and Vincennes district conference with Dr Biddle. Socials feature ice cream socials and visits among local families and ministers.
Everybody has the oil fever now. Commodore Hauger and wife and daughter Esther visited Sunday at William O Neals. Charles Woodsmall and family visited last Wednesday at John Douglas. Joe Hopewell called on Joe O Neal Sunday. Mrs William O Neal visited her daughter, Mrs Commodore Hauger, Monday. John Douglas and daughter Maud were in Shelburn Saturday. Mrs Sallie O Neal and daughter Lina visited Mrs Lizzie Hopewell. Mrs Alva Marts continues very poorly. Mrs Alonzo Trueblood and Mrs Sam O Neal were in Shelburn Saturday. Farmers in this locality are needing rain very much. Stephen Clark and wife visited at Mrs Sarah O Neals Sunday.
Mrs Hattie Harper will leave to Mobile Alabama where she will reside with her daughter Miss Bernice.
Junior high class entertained seniors at Miss Jessie Berry home with a good time. Decora tion Day observed by the G A R. Dr Brown did business in Sullivan Saturday. Mrs Ed Ward shopped in Sullivan with her mother. Miss Rebekah Bragdon staying with sister Mrs Lee Corder at the Station. Miss Wagoner and school picnicked on the Bluff with about 35 people. Lawrenceville Illinois visitors Mr and Mrs Sanford visited their son Prof Sanford last week. Ed Wood visiting property and friends. Joe Long and Reid Wilson returned from South Carolina. Sunday school convention held at the college chapel with Rev Mr Harbinson and Dr Long. Mrs Harry Reid of Clinton visited relatives. Mrs Hattie Harper and daughter Bernice attended memorial services here. Grover Vickery and Libbie Lawrence married Sunday morning at the groom's home.
Graysville held religious services at the Methodist church with a full week of revival meetings. Attendees included pastors Rev Harbinson Rev Reed Rev Lisman Rev Grimes and Dr Sargent from Indianapolis. Luther Yager and wife of Palestine visited. S. S. Yager hosted a family reunion with forty at the feast.
I H Kalley will build a two story brick veneer residence with Bedford stone trim on his South Main street lot. Project cost estimated at $15,000 with a basement. Construction contract let to Frank J Nicholas and Routt Brothers.
Sullivan R R reports progress on rock road work. U B meeting lacked the pastor. Neighbors visited Bedwells and Alsops, with multiple calls to family members. Oats look poor. harvest near. Dog crop is plentiful. Minnie Creager can go out again after rheumatism.
Memorial day services at the Methodist church with Rev. John A. Ward speaker. Hymera Cubs beat Shelburn Ben Hurs 9 to 8. Cubs seek games with Sullivan and Jasonville in the 14 to 16 year old class. Everett Scott to write game notes for Hymera. Infant buried after Dennie Swally marriage. Earl Sanders resigns as marshal. Dad Stout to handle duties until town board assigns new appointment. Prof. W L Connors visiting. Ladies Aid held a cake sale. funds raised. Miners quartette sang. a basket dinner drew large crowd. W J Williams preached. Wesley Williams and Jack Harmon rode to Merom with Goldie Turner and Clifford. Good Bluff outing reported. Dora Beckett and Robert Hinkle fished. no sucker caught.
The docket includes Clem Daugherty v Peabody-Alwert Coal Co for wages, Albert King v Nellie King divorce and custody, Edward Brewer v Oma L Brewer divorce, William S Bennett administrator v William J Ladson Emma Fidler et al to sell real estate, Walter F Brown trustee foreclose mortgage and seek receiver, Zella Wilson v William Wilson divorce, Samantha J Price v John Price, Elijah W Howlett v John W Lindley guardian for Com Anderson Jr on note, Nora B McClure v Elmer E Watts Salathiel Boone et al in junction.
An advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. as the only constitutional treatment for catarrh, taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. The firm offers one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure and cites Toledo, Ohio, as its base. sells at 75 cents with accompanying Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Baptist Young People's Union held a hay ride and wienie roast at Dickerson's grove on Thursday night. Refreshments of wenves eggs marshmallows and lemonade were served. Attendees included Edith Lang Ruth Drake Quindara White Sallie Springer Bertha Botts Frances Neff Ida Leonard Essie Williams Lucile Watson Effie Douthitt Flo Lowe Faye Conner Verna Rich Martha Black Summers Black Grace Padgett Blanchard Davis Joe Black Russell Combs Hubert Botts Arthur Snavely and Albert Kreiger.
Seward Watson a farmer in Hamblin township Brown county panned forty eight hours produced thirty eight dollars in gold from a small branch near his home. Nuggets reached sizes as large as a grain of wheat.
A Cincinnati girl named Alice McConaughy is misidentified as an eighteen year old in a federal wireless license notice. The thirteen year old Madisonville pupil is the actual holder of Ohio's youngest coastal Great Lakes wireless permit, while unrelated details about her family and health are noted.
Miss Mayme Pixley, famed steeplejack, killed a four foot rattlesnake with thirteen rattles in the state forest reservation at Henryville. The snake’s presence at the site remains a mystery.
Gorge Polk of Warsaw fled injury after a bottle of ink exploded on his desk. The liquid, now thought to be an agent, was found to contain blue vitriol and water. About one hundred Warsaw residents purchased the liquid.
Mrs Elizabeth C Rowland of Clay township Dearborn County is among Indiana's oldest suffragists. She marked her ninety seventh birthday with a dinner at her country home and hopes to live past a hundred while seeing women gain the franchise in Indiana. Rowland is the granddaughter of a Revolutionary War soldier and has seven children twenty nine grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren. Armyne Davis, the smallest child.
Pirde and Trueblood of this city have been awarded the contract for the new Christian church in Dugger. Construction will start at once on the edifice.
Perry Drake departed last week for American Falls Idaho on a business trip and is expected back soon.
Albert Campbell recounts a near miss with a light fingered thief at a Terre Haute circus. He saved most of his money in his watch pocket while spending on peanuts red lemonade and circus trinkets. The thief targeted his pocket book containing Modern Woodman receipts, revealing the novice nature of the offender.
Elijah W. Howlett sues guardian J. W. Lindley for Commodore P. Anderson Jr on a $150 promissory note. Hunt Gambill represents the plaintiff.
Prof Clyde Sims resigns as Dugger school superintendent to accept the superintendency of the Greenup Illinois schools. He leaves behind a record of service as an educational leader in the Dugger district.
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