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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1911
Page
4
The Sullivan Union lists subscription prices with one year six months and three months options. Rates show one dollar fifty cents for yearly terms and twenty five cents for shorter terms, all strictly in advance.
Dirrelle Chaney Robert P White publishers and John C Chaney note Senator Kern is suited for the Lorimer inquiry due to his work on past election corruption involving Senator Shively. They ask whether Congressman Cullop supports free wool and coal for his district and invite Democratic papers to seek his stance.
In Chicago Judge Kenesaw M. Land denounces as cheap virtue men who boast abstinence from tobacco and liquor but engage in chasing women and stealing from envelopes, highlighting hypocrisy in moral codes.
Under Governor Marshall the state's expenditures exceed initial levels by about one hundred thousand dollars mostly due to the creation of sinecures for his partisans.
John W. Kern will chair a committee to investigate William Lorimer’s senatorial election. While organizing the panel Kern may recount how, in 1909, he claimed an Indiana brewery machine bought eight legislators to secure Shively’s Senate seat.
Marion Chronicle condemns Lafollette and Rockefeller as threats to liberty and accuses William Allen Cullop of failing veterans by backing pension limits under congressional rules. The piece labels the current Democratic Congress as ineffective and promises scrutiny of pension positions.
President Taft denied clemency for Charles W. Morse of New York and John R. Walsh of Chicago. He refused pardons and declined to shorten sentences, asserting the national banking laws must be upheld even when affecting the rich. The opinion cites perceived moral turpitude in the Walsh case.
The President denied Morse and Walsh pardons but this does not bar parole. Walsh began a five year term in Leavenworth in January 1910 and is eligible for parole next September under federal law. the decision does not affect future parole applications.
Places of business in Sullivan closed at noon and banks shut all day in honor of Decoration Day. Memorial services were held at the Methodist church with Hon. Charles Bedwell delivering the oration. Frank Neffpost G A R and the W R C attended in a body and marched to Center Ridge cemetery where graves were adorned with flowers. The public library and post office also closed for the day.
The U S government provides 600000 marble markers for soldiers graves. Each marker is three feet long one foot wide and four inches thick and weighs 200 pounds. Furnished free through the quartermaster's office on request by a relative Grand Army post or private citizen for deceased veterans.
John Greene lost a mule last week. Captain Smith visited Dr. Durham Saturday and Sunday. Tom Medsker and mother spent Sunday at John Harrison's with Steve Newlin and family. Florence Graystone spent Sunday with Tesla and Ava Haines. Erna Pounds and Mary Duffer were in Sullivan Saturday. Dr. Durham and son James were in Sullivan Saturday. Sylvia Medsker went to Terre Haute Saturday for State Normal. Emerson Watson and wife dined at the Eno home Sunday. Mrs. Myra Wininger of West Baden arrived Sunday for a two week visit with her mother Mrs. Tom Woods. John York and family spent Sunday at Jesse Medskers. Warren Watson was in Sullivan Saturday. Mrs. Edith Bicknell and son Harvey visited Mrs. Henri Mann and mother Sunday. Mrs. Ethel Burk went to Terre Haute Friday to see her mother at Union hospital and returned Sunday evening. Her mother was very little better. We had a good program Sunday morning with International Peace Day and Memorial Day observations. Rev. Bennett will preach here next Sunday morning and evening.
Bro. Albert Lloyd preached here Sunday night. Several from here attended auto races in Indianapolis Tuesday. Band concerts will be discontinue here this summer. Ester Metcalf visited home folks Sunday.
About twenty five Sullivan people attended the event yesterday as Ray Harroun won the 500 mile race at Indianapolis in 6 hours 41 minutes 8 seconds at 75 miles per hour. One man was killed and six injured.
The text discusses Israel's repentance and the Messiah's reign, stressing divine mercy through the Rabsomi Sacrifice and urging recognition of transgression. It condemns Christendom as idolatrous and materially focused, likening it to Laodicea and urging spiritual diligence and humility before God.
West bound train numbers listed with running times and daily or special schedules. Nos 21 83 22 34 94 appear, with 11 12 a m and 6 35 a m times noted. Nos 21 33 and 84 run daily while 94 is a mixed train running daily except Sunday.
Charles E Montgomery as administrator of Mary E Montgomery deceased offers at public sale in Sullivan Indiana on June 1 1911 at 2 PM the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter section 27 township 8 north range 10 west plus 2 1/2 acres square exclusion and the north half of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27 with a five acre west strip. Terms: one third cash one third in six months and one third in 12 months with 6 percent interest secured by mortgage. First insertion May 10 1911.
Jesse Houser was arrested Saturday night by Chief of Police Henry Smith for intoxication. He spent Sunday in jail and was arraigned before Mayor Hoover Monday morning.
G T Richardson of Richardson's Mills Als recalls a year of bronchial trouble in their child and a full recovery after one bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery. It cures coughs colds and lung ailments including croup and asthma. Price 50c and 1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Joe Kock & Son.
Thomas Purcell was arraigned before the Mayor on a charge of intoxication and fined one dollar plus costs. He was sent back to jail after arrest by Patrolman John Watson.
Want ads are published at one cent per word for a single insertion and half a cent per word for each additional insertion. The notice explains pricing and repetition terms for classified ads.
Gasoline stoves cleaned and repaired by JOHN B. GOOLDY referenced in a brief note.
Notice to named landowners that James Phegley Eli Marquett James M Wortman Marshal A Charley Ellis Greenfield James T Ridgeway Charles M Wolfe George F Wolfe Harvey Inman Tilman B Wolfe filed a drainage petition in Sullivan County Indiana Circuit Court. Hearing set for June 29 1911 on open ditch route through sections 29 30 19 Township 6N Range 9W ending at Marquett dredge ditch.
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