Local notices highlight family ties and real estate transfers
Mise Zoe Chaney brings thanks giving at home. Albert Hopewell draws a ten dollar monthly pension. Mr and Mrs Joshua Ernest visit Indianapolis relatives. Dr Hinkle adds a new door and other improvements. Michael Walters sells property on Sylvan Dell Street to Mrs Lewis Rose, closing Monday. Sullivan County Bar plans a division gathering next Friday with toasts. Alice Henry contracts smallpox linked to Daviess Co with strict health precautions. Mrs Ella Allen announces daughter Nelle L to Ogle J Morgan on December 3 at Walker's Chapel Prairieton. Noah Crawford builds a new Washington Street home to be ready by Christmas. Geo Alvey and Minnie Goodwin plan new houses on Sylvan Dell Street. Wm Brookbank visits family. heads to Arkansas where son lives. Mrs Francis Kelly recalls a burglar on East Washington Street. neighbor I. N. Snow assists. Union reports Jesse Pinkston illness in Independence Kan. family summoned. Real estate transfers list numerous lot and land sales in Sullivan, Hymera, Gill, Hamilton and surrounding townships.
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Alice Henry
Hedton
Daviess Co
Heaith
Ella Allen
Nelle L
Ogle J. Morgan
Walker's Chapel
Noah Crawford
West Washington Street
Geo Alvey
Mra
Minnie Goodwin
Sylvan Dell Street
Francis Kelly
East Washington Street
Daughers
Kelly
I. N. Snow
Snow
UNION
Jesse Pinkston
Independence
Kan
Land Transfers Across Counties Reported
Property deeds show multiple transfers including D J Vaughn selling 414 acres in Gill to Geo W West for 1, and 3537 acres in Gill to D E Prose for 1. Catharine Hoke sells a Sullivan lot to Ward Boles et al for 100. Pleas Walters sells 123 acres in Cass to D J Terhune for 150. Theodore Plew et al acquire 3 acres in Curry for 140. W Wolfenbarger sells 40 acres in Hamilton to Daniel McKee for 1100. DW Overhhaltz3r sells 106 acres in Jackson to Frank Drennon for 4600.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass
D J Vaughn
Geo W West
Gill
D E Prose
Catharine Hoke
Ward Boles
Tn Sullivan
Pleas Walters
D J Terhune
E W Thompson
Theodore Plew
Curry
Wolfenbarger
Daniel McKee
Hamilton
Frank Drennon
Jackson
Accidents at Hunt Result in Eye Injury and Loss of Hand
In North Vernon Indiana on November 22 Charles Hill fired after mud clogged his gun muzzle and a fragment struck his eye destroying sight. Separately Madison William Horton lost his left hand when his gun discharged accidentally while hunting.
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North Vernon
Ind
Charles Hill
Hill
Madison
William Horton
Concordia College Professor Otto Siemon Ends Life
Fort Wayne Indiana November 24 Dr Otto Siemon professor of philology and Latin at Concordia college Lutheran institute took his life Sunday. He had suffered from nervous prostration for six months and strangled himself with bedclothes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Ind
Otto Siemon
Concordia College
Lutheran Institute of Learning
Acrobats' Leading Figure Antonio Migasi Dies at 82
Noblesville Indiana reports the death of Antonio Migasi at his home on Sunday aged eighty two. Migasi was a renowned acrobat and the driving force behind the Antonio Brothers Circus, famous across the United States and Canada before the Civil War.
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Noblesville
Ind
Antonio Migasi
Migasi
Antonio Brothers
United States
Canada
Dangerous Sleeping Place in Indiana Coal Mine
Shelburn Indiana Nov 22 Cleve Zink nineteen year old coal miner Hymera was struck by an extra freight while asleep on a cattle guard his right foot was completely severed and his head badly bruised he was found unconscious
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Shelburn
Ind
Cleve Zink
Hymera
Two Men Stranded in Quicksand at Hatch Farm
Elkhart Indiana November 22 two men John Mather eighty two and John Manchester sixty while walking across the Hatch farm stepped into quicksand. Mather sank to his chin while Manchester sank to the waist. Both struggled to escape.
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Elkhart
Ind
John Mather
John Manchester
Hatch Farm
Mather
Tragic double suicide in Terre Haute woman ends life
Terre Haute Indiana November 24 Mrs Jennie Winegardner took carbolic acid ending her life after conflict with a man she lived with Her daughter followed suit by the same method about three months earlier in the same residence asserting a family tragedy.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Jennie Winegardner
Mortgage deduction case pushed to U S Supreme Court
Indianapolis November 25 Attorney General W L Taylor has asked Washington to advance the mortgage deduction case before he leaves office in January The Indiana Supreme Court upheld the law and about 80000 residents have claimed deductions averaging 500 for a total of 40000000 If federal ruling voids the mortgage deduction Indiana may attack the personal debt deduction law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
W. L. Taylor
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Indiana Supreme Court
Indiana
Sheriff Vacancy Follows Lynching Under New Indiana Law
Governor Durbin declares Sullivan county sheriff’s office vacant after a lynching. Coroner to serve ex officio until successor is appointed, with a ten day reinstatement petition possible if the sheriff shows he did all he could. Prosecution and attorney general must be notified. This marks the first lynching under the new statute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Durbin
Dudley
Sullivan County
Black dress goods found in front of post office
A piece of black dress goods with heavy knap wag found Tuesday afternoon in front of the post office. The fabric is cut and likely part of two dress patterns. Finder may claim by applying at the Union Drive and paying for this notice. Mr and Mrs John T Hays announce a reception at their residence next Tuesday evening in honor of Mr and Mrs Will H Hays.
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John T Hays
Will H Hays
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W. E. Woods
J. R. Riggs
Sullivan
America
Rageapeepsars
Mise Zoe Chaney
Albert Hopewell
Joshua Ernest
Geo Merrick
Michael Walters
Greencastle
Hig Proprerty
Sylvan Dell ‘Street
Lewis Rose
Sullivan County Bar Association
H. A. Mills
Paris, Ile
David Chastain
Turman Township
O. N. Patton
Chastiin
Patton
Jethro Bass
Troy Porter
Paris
el Clark
Porter
Edgar County
Kad Gjer’s
Wm Brookbank
Clinton
Emily Brookbank
Ida
Arkansas
Wo Brooktank
Curry Township
J. Richardson
Worthington
Jimmie Ingersoll
Fidder
Palstine
Inls
W. H. Hill, Jr
Mary J. Gray
Rusazli Draper
Sulivan
Glenn
Joe R Scott
Sbhelburn
Nancy A Nichols
Hosea Badders
Suullivan
Permelia J. Hall
Gaston Drake
Fairbanks
Evias
Borders
Silver Chaney
Turman
Aston Woolverton
Ben S Wolfe
Haddon
Sarah E Curtis
Wm E Chaney
Pear Isabell
Ora A. Cox
C C Harder Et al
RB Harder
Oscar Johnson
A. M. Pirtle
Josh Beasley
Wm H Jones, Jr
Wm A Stone
James H Clark
Jefferson
Isaac T Payne
Wm H Payne
Roscoe
O’haver
Jas B Howard
Amaboda J Thoroberry
Mary C. Mahan
Lillie M Hilderman
Preston H. Mitchell
Jem Purcell
F M Boling
Paxton
Edgar Daily
Robert Burge
Jont Scott
State of Indiana
Jennie Kezne
United Coal,Co
Elmer E Scott
John W Gray
Martha A W Barker
George Irwin
Sam A Brown
Sarah A Everly
Farmersburg
James H Oliptant
Alias Baroburt
Clara Simpson
Clara B Abbey
AE Johnson
Jas F Gilbreath
Samuel Bryan
Wm J Shipman
John H Alsman
Indiana State News
Tersely
Hoosiers
Riggs
Roy
Lowery of
Shelborn
James R. Riggs
Roy Lowery
R. K. Houpt
Aud Price
F.cuaningham
Wm. Simpson
I. P. Stewart
A. E. Hazelrigg
Jas. H. Stanley
Mattie Scott
J.P. McBride
John T. Moore
Alva C. Wyman
Mr. EK. Freemen
W. K. Walte
Fessis Wrigh
W. Renoh
James Harris
James M. Boide
J N. Harris
Bud Truitt
Perry Botts
W. F. Allen
W. Williamson
W.H. Leach
Ev. McKenzie
Charles Hirzel
W.C. Dorsey
Harry Jeter
W. R. Pigg
Alvin O. Bowers
R. H. Crowder
Bert Wood
Jas. F. Works
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