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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1907
Page
8
Ladies of the W R C host picnic for Mrs Gertrude Mason of Terre Haute at Mrs Thomas Mason’s home. Residents and visitors, hail damage to crops, school conveyance dispute, and local notable movements are reported with names and places across Sullivan and surrounding towns.
In Sullivan County Indiana a complaint for divorce and child custody was filed Sept 18 1907 by Chloe E Hamilton through attorneys John T Hays and Will Hays. Bert Hamilton is not a resident of Indiana and must answer by November 9 1907 or the case will proceed in his absence. The notice is issued by Clerk Tilghman Ogle.
Sunday visits marked a series of family gatherings with Sylvia Medsker visiting her son and family, Mrs. Allie Watson and Fern Medsker traveling to Terre Haute and Jessie Harrison respectively, Ray Watson returning from Terre Haute, and Rev. G C Enders to preach at Big Springs next Sunday.
Ray Brewer returned from the Jamestown Exposition. Mrs Bethel Johnson and Mrs Smpra Johnson were in Sullivan Tuesday. Elmer Emmet Harrison and Emory Drake spent days at the Indiana polis state fair. John Lawson of Sullivan was in the area Tuesday. Elva Riggs visited Palestine. Mr and Mrs John Pogue were in Prairie Creek Friday. Harry Dilley photographed Friday. O M Chambers and C C Johnson were in Sullivan on business Friday. Obd Johnson hauled corn for Milford Stevens. C C Brewer and Cyrus Drake were in Chicago last week and returned with two car loads of cattle. Charley Scott attended the State Fair last week. Milton Drake was in Sullivan Monday. Elmer Harrison and Harve Woodard of Dodds Bridge were in Sullivan Saturday. Mr and Mrs John Bowen and family and Mrs DeCamp were in Terre Haute Thursday and Friday. The Eastern Star lodge observed its second anniversary with a banquet and lodge services conducted by the Sullivan Chapter. Degrees were conferred upon Levi and Arthur Drake. Mr and Mrs Clinton Johnson and daughters Effie and Bessie of Greene County, Mrs Sarah Prickett and daughter Ruth, and Mrs Eliza-
Washinton Deckard faced a preliminary hearing before Squire Usrey on a wife desertion charge filed by his wife Jessie Deckard. He was bound over to the circuit court on a $300 bond, which he posted. This marks the second such felony case in the county under the recent desertion law with the state represented by W P Stratton and Bays and Bays and the defense by O B Harris.
Charles Harlan visits family in Vigo county. Miss Mattie Evans rushes to her mother's ailing home three miles northwest. East Main street in Farmersburg will host a new moving picture show put in by Terre Haute parties and linked to Shelburn and Hymera on a shared circuit with three weekly program changes.
In the Shelburn area last Wednesday a gas explosion at the Mammoth Vein mine left Jack Irvin and John Taylor badly burned on the face and hands but they are not seriously hurt. The report also notes local Democratic editorials criticizing the Bryan movement and calls for writing the party platform independently.
The Sullivan Union and Terre Haute Daily Star report on a one year agreement set at 2.75 percent. Details outline financial terms, duration, and potential impacts for members and readers.
The Wabash river mussel shell and pearl harvest nears completion as diggers move to the Illinois River where harvesting has begun. The Wabash crop will renew in about two years and shells fetch up to 590 dollars per ton for yellow sand varieties, with common shells around 12 dollars per ton.
A Sullivan reunion tale features a veteran who lost a leg in a poker game over a dog bite. Blacksmith Martin Farley recalls signing as M Farley then M H Farley before finally using Martin Hardin Farley. Terre Haute oilman James Crawford refuses rubber tires at Sullivan Transfer, choosing an old steel-tired rig after a series of makeshift repairs.
A Saturday event at the Billman and McBride furniture store drew over fifty Sullivan county babies with mothers. Judges and ministers selected a winner, nine month old Mary Thompson, who received a go cart. The store advertised rockers for 1.98 and planned a 0.78 willow chair sale later.
Democratic leaders backing rivals to the Peerless one for the presidency dismiss Mr. Bryan’s claim he has not yet decided on a candidacy. The passage signals shifting support among party figures amid the nomination contest.
The Linton Citizen reports a Republican maneuver against Congress member Chaney over a post office appointment. The piece frames the dispute as the actions of a disgruntled office seeker and notes the Citizen is a Democratic newspaper.
Five percent money to loan on improved farms. Apply to WM. Willis of Sullivan for details and terms.
We thank the Masonic fraternity church neighbors and all who helped during the illness and death of our husband and father. MRS H M DeVOL ED DeVOL. Money to loan on long time at five percent interest. Farms bought and sold. 7 11 p WM WILLIS Sullivan Ind
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