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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1880
Page
5
The Sullivan Union printed a weekly notice from editor James A. Hays with subscription prices and a train time card for the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad. It lists northbound and southbound departures, express and freight schedules, and a note on a regular timetable. A late entry mentions 11 pounds of sugar offered at Curry & Dutton’s for $1.
A dense string of shop advertisements and small notices from Sullivan county. Curry and Duttons offer sugar and pickles. Heaths and Goodmans promote holiday stock, boots hats and gloves. local events note Damon and Pythias play nights and sheriff changes. Various residents and merchants listed with prices and goods.
Lorier as administrator will sell at public auction in Graysville Sullivan county Indiana on Thursday December 16 1880 at 10 a m all remaining notes and accounts of the estate cash in hand on day of sale per Sullivan Circuit Court order 16-31.
At the June term 1889 Sullivan Circuit Court declared Elijah Watkins estate insolvent. Those interested are notified it will be settled accordingly. Nov. 17, 1880 A. Collinson Executor. Also notices on house barn and goods insurance policies issued for up to five years against fire and lightning. Chalt. Brown of Terre Haute was in the city yesterday.
Town merchants agree to close 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thanksgiving day. Union services at Christian Church at 10 a.m. with Rev. Ketcham of the Methodist Church to preach. Also a postoffice notices list uncalled for letters in Sullivan Indiana as of Nov 20, including Gents list J T Green Hugh McGuire Frank Scott and Ladies list Nancy Chiddix Mollie E Pierson Josie Siner Amelia Sherman Nancy Skelton Laura C Taylor.
Saturday night a serious fire was narrowly stopped when H P Jones spotted blazing coal ashes in the hall near the folding doors to the Opera House. The flames raced up the wall toward the baseboard before his timely intervention.
A witty note on newsroom chaos at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where writers risk smudging ink and papers with improvised tools in a humorous aside about editorial habits and methods.
A social event at Mr. John Mason’s residence near New Lebanon marked the marriage of Miss Clarra Mason to Mr. Ed Bedell. The ceremony, led by Rev. J. F. St. Clair of Carlisle, featured four attendants and a reception of valuable gifts.
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