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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1903
Page
1
A leading citizen argues Sullivan must adopt city government to match its growth and the region's opportunities. He warns that delay hurts health, streets, and order, and urges large scale improvements and a tax base to fund them while expanding boundaries and attracting new residents.
The Sullivan public schools will open next Monday morning September 21 with first bell at 8 05 and second at 8 35. Pupils must be present at the second bell. Teachers will take names and distribute printed lists of books souvenirs and a program for the bells. Transfers required for out of town pupils. District boundaries laid out for grades three to eight with assignments to Reid building north room and Depot school south room. The public school must be thoroughly democratic and no special favors for any child.
J. P. Hornady and J. L. Rich of Cincinnati visited Sullivan this week to inspect the proposed Indiana Coal Belt Traction Line. They were hosted at supper at the Davis and expressed strong interest after touring the full route and noting the coal fields development in Sullivan and Greene counties.
Joseph Wheat and Stella Thomson son marry. Elza Z Lundy weds Cora May Price. David Reeves to Lillie Pearce in formal license filings.
A Terre Haute meeting launched a movement to make the Wabash River navigable year round from Lafayette to the mouth with aims to reach Lake Michigan and the Gulf. Strong support came from Vincennes and Lafayette with congressional pledges to back a feasible plan based on surveys and engineer recommendations.
County Commissioners granted liquor licenses to N. S. Worley Ed Rusher Algie Whitney and Ed Leach after remonstrance with power of attorney fell short by about 30 names. Whitney won an appeal to sell liquor in Sullivan. Sullivan now has seven licensed saloons, Arcade opened, Rusher runs South Side saloon, Worley the Davis House ar, Whitney the B N saloon, Leach a depot saloon.
Carroll Dudley, injured Labor Day after riding a bicycle into a wire stretched across Main and State streets on Washington Street, sues the town of Sullivan for 1000 dollars. The complaint says he was thrown to the ground and injured in the throat head and body. Dudley is represented by Bays & Bays. the town by City Attorney Douthitt. Miss Elva Houldson of Indianapolis visits local friends and relatives.
Former Riverton postmaster Newton B. Stough is arraigned in Greene County Circuit Court for the murder of Herbert McCammon after a fatal October shooting at Riverton. The case, transferred from Sullivan, features defense and prosecution attorneys and notes McCammon’s past with Stough’s daughter Miss Sadie B. Stough.
Euclid Lodge No. 3 of Carlisle and visiting Masons laid the corner stone of Carlisle’s new school building last Friday at 5 PM. Deputy Grand Master W. E. Aydelette led the ceremonies as Grand Master W. E. English of Indianapolis was absent.
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