Will Hays Home Town Welcome Draws Big Crowd
A large turnout welcomed Will H. Hays in Sullivan Indiana with hundreds of visitors from Terre Haute and Indianapolis. The crowd cheered as Hays thanked supporters, band music played Back Home in Indiana, and neighboring residents joined the reception at his home. Distinguished figures sent congratulations.
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Indiana
Sullivan
Terre Binete
Indianapolis
Demo- Cou4 Pictthered Together To Extend & Welcoite To Will Hays
Ways
Perro
Hoare
Hays
School
Ehidren
Gray
Stret
Will
HH. Stratton
Dehard Gesher
Uidinmapolis
Stratton
le Rend
James Bh. Wetson
Harry New
Goodrick
Warren JT. McCray
Sanders
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
Will H. Hays
America
Harding
Harry T. Alumbaugh
Wabash
Chariley D. Hunt
Will Hays
Senatory Johnson
Mr. Taft
Jone
Mr. Hays
Hunt
Selecting His Timber Cox Wins Sullivan County Vote
Governor Cox carried Sullivan county by 784 votes with 6160 electors for Cox and 6376 for the Republicans. The county total 12,991 voters, 1909 of 14,800 registered did not vote. The poll also lists votes for Socialist, Prohibition, Farmer-Labor and Single Tax tickets.
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Cox
Sullivan County
Welcome Address of Hot John C Chaney at Haye Reception
The address lauds Will Hays as a successful party leader and outlines Republican strategic shifts through 1916 and 1920. It praises Hays for rebuilding the party, directing campaigns, and uniting committees, ending with plan to continue in strength. Continued on page four.
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Hot
John C. Chaney
Haye
Will Hays
Republican Party
Wilson League of Nations
Europe
Chicago
Two Sullivan County Men Elected to Missouri Legislature
Two former Sullivan county residents won seats in Missouri’s state legislature. J Ward Miles of Hale now represents Carrol County as a Republican and is a farmer businessman and church leader. Rev O B Whittaker of Weaubleau is elected representative from Hickory County, a former Union Christian College president. Republicans will control both chambers for the first time in fifty years.
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Sullivan County
Missouri
J. Ward Miles
Gill Township
Halé
Carrol County
Miles
Hale
James Miles
Merom
Ethel
Flora Miles
Sullivan
Dicey Miles
O. B. Whittaker
Weabileau
Union Christian College of
Hickory County
Whittaker
Visit of Col. W. G. Young Recalls Sullivan Campaign
Col W G Young of Indianapolis visited here yesterday for the Hays reception. The piece recalls the 1880 Sullivan county campaign when Young led Republicans as chairman, John T Hays secretary, and John C Chaney produced the first county poll. The article notes Greenback opposition, party battles, and early county organizing including the Coffman park rally with Robert T Lincoln as speaker.
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W. G. Young
Col. Young
John T. Hays
John C. Chaney
Poland
Indianapolis
Hays
Sullivan County
Will H. Hays
Col Young
Henry Wilson
Isaacl H. Kalley
Arthur A. Holmes
John C. New
Senator Herry
Sullivan
Vigo
James B. Patton
Greenbackers
Patton
Vigo County
David* Crawley
Col. Dudley
James A. Hays
Union
Coffman’s Park
Vigo Greene
Knox
Robert T. Lincoln
Chicago
Abraham Lincoln
Gill
Robert Massey
Thomas F. Bland
R. F. Knotts
Capt
T. B. Springer
Wallace Springer
Peter Hopewell
Sam South
Fony Dodds
Cass
George Exline
Harry Conker
Fairbanks
Milt Badger
Nick Yeager
Haddon
Jesse Haddon
Theodore Harper
Batley Mr@Onnell
William “Orr
Jefferson Township
L. R. Edmonds
John H. Jackson
Curry Township
J. A. Harper
Charles Bolinger
Thomas P. Hughes
Thomas Crary
James Heap
W. H. Bennett
Joni Bennett
John Smock
Jackson Township
Kenneth W. Seif
Frank Stock
George Barnett
Robert Linn
Alvert G. Porter
Greenbes
Community Club Honors Will Hays at Chicken Dinner
About two hundred people attended a chicken dinner at the Christian church in the city hosted by the Community Club. Will Hays was made a life honorary member. James M. House and J. R. Brown spoke, Hays praised civic effort and called for citizen aid in postwar reconstruction. several political figures from both parties were present.
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Christian Church
Will H. Hays
John
Taylor
Hays
James M. House
Vincennes
J. R. Brown
Will Hays
William H. Crowder
Carlisle Republicans Plan Ratification Parade Friday Night
Carlisle and vicinity Republicans plan a large Friday night ratification event marking the election result. The parade begins at 7:00 p.m. with all known noise-making devices except firearms. Delegations are expected from Sullivan Paxton Dugger Shelburn Farmersburg Oaktown Pleasantville Freelandsville and nearby towns. A dance follows the parade, on the streets or Pilmer Ridgway hall.
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Carlisle
Sullivan, Paxton
Dugger
Shelburn Farmersburg
Oaktown
Pleasantville
Freelandsville
Pilmer & Ridgway Hall
Edmondson Lectures on Mountain Peaks of Life at College
Stuart B. Edmondson of Lake Forest Illinois will lecture in the college auditorium on Thursday evening November 11 at 7 30. The talk is titled Mountain Peaks of Life and follows his switch from business to religious and social issues. Miss Mattie F. Simmonds arranged the lecture through the English department.
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Stuart B. Edmondson
Stuart B. Edondson
Lake Forest
Ilinois
Edmondson
Mattie F. Simmonds
Bland Wins District by Large Majority in Election
Oscar E. Bland, a Republican candidate for Congress, carried the district by a total majority of 7250 over Democrat William A. Cullop. Bland won all counties except Sullivan, which went to Cullop by 164, totaling Bland 7414 to Cullop 164. districts by county: Knox 2369, Daviess 1150, Martin 291, Morgan 148, Monroe 1173, Greene 1997, Owen 286.
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Oscar E. Bland
William A. Cullop
Fred Bays
Sullivan
Mr. Cullop
Bland
Knox
Daviess
Martin
Morgan
Monroe
Greene
Owen
Cullop Sullivan
Pioneer banker William Crowder dies after long Sullivan career
William Hensley Crowder, 82, prominent in Sullivan's banking and commercial circles for more than six decades, died Monday at his daughter's home. A funeral service will be held Thursday at 2 PM at the Stratton home, with Rev. S. J. Gross officiating and the Frank Neff Post G. A. R. participating. Burial at Center Ridge cemetery. He was active in the Methodist church and survived by many children and relatives.
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William Hensley Crowder
Sullivan
Paul Stratton
South Main Street
Crowder
Stration
S. J. Gross
Methodist Church
Frank Neff Post
Center Ridge Cemetery
Daugh
Isaac Stewart
Edgar S. Crowder
Flamiston Township
William H. Crowder, Jr
Dave T. Nicoson
Indianapolis
Katharine Kirkham
Ben C. Crowder
Sullivan State Bank
James Harvey Crowder
National Bank
City
Jessie Crowder
Dorothy Stratton
W. P. Stratton
Ysaac Milton Crowder
Boyle
Mary Crowder-Williams
Arista B. Williams
Chicago
Oscar H. Crowder
John H. Crowder
Long Beach
Cal
Hosea Crowder
William H. Crowder
Putnam County
Indiana
William M
Hannah Crowder
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Mary C. Hays
John L. Thompson
Ays
Jack Henley
Mr. Blunt
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