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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1915
Page
5
In Sullivan area, farmers from Farmersburg and stockman from Oaktown discuss gun access and wartime prices. Old Lead store touts bargains on guns, ammunition, and hardware with Scott Hardware Co moving to a new building as a sale drives shoppers to buy now.
C. H. Stratton left Sunday for Evansville to join the Dixie Bee Line inspection party. The group will tour the proposed route in Kentucky and Tennessee, traveling as far south as Nashville for five days. Walker Jennings of Farmersburg accompanies Stratton.
A tent meeting to continue at Pleasantville. Local residents visit and hosts include Mr. and Mrs. Milton Stuller and their daughter with Mrs. Louvina Mounts. Several townsfolk travel for medical and family reasons, including Mrs. Boyd Brewer to Indianapolis for cancer surgery and Frank Fletcher selling his farm west of Carlisle to move there.
Bunk Russell was here Sunday. Tom Eslinger and wife called on Rollie Eslinger to see the new boy Lewis Wright. Ike Brown and wife worshipped at Bethel. Miss Hazel Ogle of Merom gave a recital Saturday. Lane and Mrs Bledsoe and son visited Mrs Bledsoe's parents. Mr and Mrs James McBride of Cass visited. Bledsoes had dinner with Lenox. Young folks attended Merom church Sunday night. Dolph Houck hosted a large gathering with ice cream lemonade and cake Sunday evening. Frank Hanley had dinner with Tom Eslinger and family.
A marriage license was issued in Terre Haute on Saturday to Charles Puell a 19 year old Terre Haute machinist and Miss Elsie B Neteherssl 19 of Sullivan county. Leonard Pyles departed Monday in his Ford for a four weeks trip through Northern Indiana Kansas and Iowa.
Mrs Medford Cooper of Orana visits, then returns home with Miss Whiting Cooper to Terre Haute. East Lynn MTIill hires former U C C staff, MTIill teachers Goernandt and Weimer. Local school opens, library moves, and improvements noted. Tennis club meeting at chautauqua hotel with officer election and rules adopted. Jos Hubble funeral remembered. Rural route lengthening petition ready. Burn Buff fills Earl Berry’s school post. Ernest Goernant visits. Carl Johnson works for Pittsburgh telephone. Clyde Creager at Brown's Business College. Gault Pleasant heads to Sioux Falls for city school job.
Turman and Riggs sue Samuel Conner on note and James Sevier on note. D A Armstrong sues Mary E Drake administrator of Henry Johnson estate. Mary E Seever seeks to modify decree against Charles M Seever. Evinger sues Trueblood to foreclose mechanic lien. Evinger sues Benty Evinger and Walter Walter Bledsoe Co. vs Bert J Tague on account. National Bank of Sullivan sues James V Sevier and Edward Snow on note. Crowder sues Walter Cooksey Lola Cooksey et al on note and mortgage. Zoe Kirkham sues Nellie Kirkham to restore sanity. Mattox sues William Mattox in divorce. Carl R Hinkle sues estate of James R Hinkle Citizens Trust administrator claim.
Following Edward J. King plead guilty to embezzling Dugger State Bank funds the bank met with Hays & Hays and King agreed to turn over property to trustee Will Hays. The bank then filed two suits in circuit court against bondsmen Southern Surety Co. and Western Indemnity Co. for $20,000 total damages plus recovery of misappropriated funds.
Dr G D Scott of this city was one of seven judges at the 1915 Lake Superior Mining Institute meeting in Ironwood Michigan. The program featured speeches and First Aid contests with fourteen teams contending for prizes. On the return trip he visited Duluth Minneapolis and St Paul.
Ben 8 Harris, a former Haddon township resident aged 71, died Friday at his daughter Mrs. Lafe Pigg’s home in Lewis. Funeral was Sunday at Providence church with Rev. Benjamin of Paxton Christian church officiating. Interment followed in Paxton cemetery.
The Woman's Club of the Merom Chautauqua will hold a basket dinner on Merom Bluffs Friday. A number of prominent women from Illinois and Terre Haute are expected to be present.
Anna Hunt daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles D Hunt is ill with typhoid fever. Frank M Nead of Hymera conducted business in Sullivan yesterday.
John Q Cushman 63 a bachelor formerly of the Narrows died last Friday at his home in Hope Arkansas He was brother to Mrs Herman Van Vieck of the Narrows and Lawson Cushman of Billings Montana Cushman left no Arkansas relatives and attorney A E DeBaun was to travel to Arkansas to handle the estate The body will be brought to Sullivan county for burial at Mann Cemetery
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