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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1899
Page
7
Community updates record visits and gatherings around Carlisle including Miss Pearl McAnally visiting Mrs Anns Heap near Farmersburg Rev John Ragle at conference and local socials with Maple Grove Band ice cream supper at Howard s grove Dick Pearce returning from Newcastle to Purdue University and other townsfolk in attendance at church and school activities.
Uncle John Knochs remains very ill while Aunt Maria Lester and Mrs. Henry Richter also suffer sickness. Mrs. L. R. Edmonds visited friends in Sullivan last week. T. N. McClung and wife visited their son Hud in Sullivan Sunday. Rev. Crane delivered his farewell sermon. Eli Douthitt and wife from Danville Illinois are here to see Uncle John Enoczh’s ailing health. Mrs. R. S. O’Haver and daughter visit at T. B. O’Haver’s. Lacy Wilson is ill with erysipelas. Fay Howard shows improvement. D. R. Newkirk traveled to Sullivan on Monday for business.
Pres L J Aldrich preaches at Big Springs next Sunday. Rally day planned for the fourth Sunday. Mann and Durham schedule a fine cattle sale on September 27. G T Carruthers and Nora Buckley wed at Mrs William Medsker’s home Tuesday night. Mrs Allie Watson and Mary Manning attend old settlers picnic near Carlisle Thursday. Mrs Selma Arnett ill. Green Robbins moved to Mrs J A Marlow’s residence. Tom Hawkins on sick list. Eld Doty to preach at Good Hope next Saturday and Sunday. Ollie Hawkins and Harvey Richard visit near Dugger Sunday. Charley Craige and sister Lily visit Sarah Hawkins Sunday. M G Mitchell at Good Hope Sept 19–21. Harry Hawkins and wife visit Frank McClanahan’s Sunday. Alvah Ford starts school at Marlow Monday. Wishing him success.
Mrs Gusse Smith returned Thursday from Cincinnati. George W Builerman of Lawrenceville Illinois and Miss Mary A Trout were married at Vincennes last week. Will and Gus Dale visited their parents at Sullivan Monday. The public schools will open next Monday with Principal Edward Conradi and teachers Mary E Flannigan Fannie Peyton Etta Reed Hattie Williams.
Local college students and staff listed as returning or arriving for the term. A. J. Ward and wife visit Mrs. Johnson in St. Louis, Samuel Kurtz arrives for school, Jennie Page returns from Illinois, John L. Pleasant and Wm. Curtis travel to Illinois on business, Elijah Carter and wife visit Cyrus Fairfield in Indiana, Prof. Elizabeth Hatten returns from Chautauqua and Niagara with Terre Haute friends, Perry Smith visits sister Laura in Linton, James M. Stondard visits Illinois friends over Sunday.
O M Patton of Debearbo passes through Friday. Flora Lofton hosted a party east of Shelburn last Saturday. G F Botts surprised at home last Sunday. Maud Rich sprained her wrist in a runaway last Monday. Local residents attended a Sullivan concert Friday night. Richard Bailey from Shawneetown visits his father Marshall Bailey. Mrs Fred Bolinger sick. Jankins family from Sullivan spent Sunday with Geo Rich. O M Graham visited Henry Botts family in Sullivan Sunday. Walter Leach Roscoe Os burn and Alvah Rich plan to enter Sullivan School Monday. Dodd and Hughes took a business trip to Terre Haute Thursday, returned Saturday. Mr and Mrs Frank Vickery visited friends near Jackson Hill. Mrs Lucinda Thompson improving. Marion Dudley and Charley Scott in Sullivan Monday. Laura Dale of New Lebanon visiting Sam Hopewell. Charley Duffy, Merom Junction operator, called in person Saturday evening. Reed added a first class lunch room. Mrs Cook of Robinson guest of Frank Vickery Monday. C P Combs in our midst last week. School to commence at Riverton Monday.
Very warm dry weather persisted into midweek followed by cooler, rain distributed unevenly. Corn matured quickly with much harvested. late plantings drying before rains, tobacco near harvest, late potatoes dug with good yield, buckwheat and pickles fair, tomatoes uneven but overall harvests for grapes apples and clover mixed. Pasture brown as cattle fed. plowing halted for wheat though reseeding in the north. Rye may be failing in the ground.
Fragmentary lines describe phrenologists arguing benevolence sits atop the head far from wealth. The exchange hints at a mock clash between scientific hairline theories and financial concerns, reflecting a satirical tone.
Pawnee Bill’s Historic Wild West Mexican Hippodrome comes to Sullivan with two exhibitions at 2 and 8 p m on Thursday September 21 featuring Senor Francisco’s famed lariat act and a three-horse roping routine. The show travels in its own palace cars and includes hundreds of performers and animals. Meanwhile a grand street parade starts at 10 a m. The letter also notes missing sheep near the city and humorously recounts a courtroom joke.
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