Local Folks Share Weekend News From Big Springs Area
Big Springs residents recount weekend travels visits and hospital news. Huntsville visitor Manning attended local fairs. several couples and families spent Sunday and Saturday at friends homes and at Fairbanks and Sullivan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Manning
Huntsville
Ala
Fairbanks
Emerson Watson
Terre Haute
John Greene
Emery Walters
Dodds Bridge
C. T. Collier
Mary Mann
Sullivan
Mable Medsker
John Kennett
C. W. Eno
Tom Durhaim
S. Carl Burton
E. C. Eno
Fairbanks and Merom Notes Run in Indiana Community
Fairbanks residents report rain needed and a lively fair with a bean dinner feeding about 1 000. Paw paw hunting and pecans featured in fall days. The Fairbanks ball team beat West Union while Oral Allen’s funeral in Merom Station honors a WWI veteran. local families GV attend events and births and visits are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M. Welch
Alice and
Ola Johnson
Fairbanks
Lida Tague
Farmersburg
J. B. Watson
Prairie Creek
Josie Mattox
O. E. Horner
Oscar Hall
Terre Haute
Z. K. Evans
U. S
West Union
Graysville
Graysville Fair Draws Crowds Despite Cold Weather
The Fairbanks community fair drew crowds last Saturday as residents braved chilly conditions. Organizers hailed the event as a genuine treat for the town with festive atmosphere and local activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbanks
Community Fair Highlights Arising From Sullivan Activity
The long recounts a Sullivan area fair with displays, exhibits, and contests. Notable moments include large crowds, a 1200 attendance bean dinner, children and adult races, nail driving, and humorous mishaps with a greased pig. Local figures Emory Yager Floyd Muncie and many neighbors participate, with praise for sponsors A N L Burton Sons and Graysville contributors.
Warm Octobers Highlight Record Temperatures
The article notes Monday as the warmest October day since 1919 at 87 degrees. It recalls the warmest October on record at 89 degrees in 1897 on October 1, and a prior 88 degree record set in 1919.
Halls Catarrh Medicine Advertised for Cold Relief
An advertorial notes cold symptoms as nasal catarrh and describes Halls Catarrh Medicine as a local ointment plus a blood-acting tonic. Sold by F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo, Ohio for over forty years, claiming to reduce susceptibility to colds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Plan Hen Party for Charity at Graysville High
The Home Makers Club of Turman township plans a Friday October 18 1922 hen party at Graysville High School to raise funds for the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. Members will bring and auction the fattest hen to aid crippled children and attend the club's afternoon program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesdames Hamit Boone
William Jowell
Hosea Weaver
Sam Taylor
Chester Woodard
Terre Haute
Mabel
Wilma Hood
Lois McGarry
Dave Dawson
Arthur Banfield
Emory Smith
Otto Jewell
Fredericktown
Dudley Hayworth
Will Reed
Farmersburg
Dora Taylor
Marie
Richard Taylor
Roy Jewell
Levi Jewell
William Jewell
Marion Harrison
Fairbanks
Wanda
Ruth Lucile Hood
Bernice
Phylis Miller
Lydia Woodard
Sullivan
Oral Allen
Henry Allen
Merom Station
France
Merom Cemetery
American Legion
Cole Cooper
Ross Cooper
Frank Cooper
Indianapolis
Medford Cooper
Decatur
Ills
Charles Walston
Webb Milam
Raymond Thompson
Ross Malcolm
Frank Daniels
James Daniels
Milon McCarty
Frankfort
Ind
College
Hatten Chapel
Christian
Mary Vickrey
M. E. Church
McBride
Merom
Vickrey
Home Makers Club
Turman Township
Graysville High School
James Whitcomb Riley
Notice to bidders for concrete bridges in Sullivan County
The Sullivan County Board of Commissioners will accept sealed bids by noon on Monday November 6 1922 for erecting Charles Pfrang Bridge No 1 in Jefferson Township. Estimated cost 1105.52 dollars. Plans and specs on file in the Auditor's office. Board may reject any or all bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Commissioners
Sullivan County
Indiana
Said County
Charles Pfrang
Jefferson Township
Auditor's Office
Turman Twp Plans Next Year’s Graysville Community Fair
The Turman township community fair was a success and organizers announce another fair at Graysville on September 21 and 22 next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turman Twp
Turman Township
Graysville
Bass couple head to Chicago for winter with son Carl Bass
Mr and Mrs Chas T Bass left last week for Chicago to spend the winter with their son Carl Bass who is in the drug business there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. T. Bass
Chicago
Carl Bass
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Republican State Committee
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Big Springs
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Erom
Shelburn
James W. McHugh
Hymera
Walker McHugh
McHugh & Son
Old Turman
T. B. Avery
Jas. E. Yager
Chas. Swarthout
Switz City
Rev
L. L. Johnson
Youngstown
A. N. L. Burton & Sons
Ross Ransford
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The
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Wabash
George Mitchell
Pogue
Emory
Stoeck
Doc Bradbury
Z. K
Rudolph Wernz
Ben Farrison
Loren Thomas
Doc Harrison
Doc
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Rudolph
Claude
Chester Gunn
Loren
Orph Riggins
Ancil Woodard
Chas. W. Sewell
Otterbein
Marie Marts
Ida Drake
Cecil Johnson
Carl Gambil
Anne Pound
John
Piggie
Cutsinger
Hux
Fairbanks High School
Tommy Ransford
Tommy
Audie Carruthers
A. V. Munich
Carlisle
W. H. Pound & Daughter
Ocsier Bargain Store
Federal Reserve
National Bank
Federal Reserve Systems
Federal Reserve Service
the National Bank
Sullivan, Indiana
Buenos Aires
Metro
John Scott
Percy Wolfe
Frank Springer
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