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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1899
Page
7
The piece likens free medical advice to a cuckoo claiming imitation of Dr. Pierce’s methods. It asserts no woman physician matches Pierce’s experience and notes his long focus on diseases of women. It also reports the marriage of Molly to Carl Willis with the couple to live with the bride’s mother.
Cool spell brings relief as corn is cut and sorghum pressed. Visitors include Dr and Mrs Turman from Marshall Tennessee and Mrs Feaster who will winter here. Hay rack parties attract twenty youths for water melon cuts and ice cream socials. M E church announces rally day on the 24th with Sunday school drills underway.
Several families visited relatives in neighboring towns this weekend including the Blands in Oak Town and the Ladsons relations of Mrs Bland. John Snyder returned from Evansville while others enjoyed trips to Sullivan Terre Haute and Indianapolis for music and races. School enrollment is described as unusually large as Prof Cromwell leads upper grades with Nash and Daugherty in lower rooms and a Bible history class forms under John M Nash. An M E Sunday school rally day is planned with a programme underway.
Local items note Mrs. John Lewis on sick list and Win Harmon recovering. Ed Liston and A E Hazelrigg handled insurance matters last week. Allie Reynolds bought a new bicycle. Union Sunday School plans rally day at M FE church next Sunday at 2 30. W E Boyer resigns from C D Pound job to attend prep for ministry in Merom. Dave Bolinger named champion corn cutter of Fairbanks township. School grounds cleaned and rooms prepared for opening. Troutman school repapered and repaired for Prof H H Mowery who began work Monday. C E Harrison building a handsome county residence. Bennie Trueblood bought new stock scales. Drake and Frakes contracted to coal schoolhouses. one load of 6100 lbs brought in by two horses. Evan visited James Spencer Sunday. Rev Crane and wife at conference. Matt Bough and son from Ohio visiting. they returned home. Willie Sisson visited Sullivan Saturday. Mrs Dr Edwards and son Ralph with Mrs L R Edmonds for birthday dinner. also Mr and Mrs Jud Daley. Epworth League held a poverty social at T N McClung’s for Miss May McClung of Kansas. John Jackson went to Sullivan on business. John H Jackson and Dr Newkirk toured Freelandsville. On Sept 17 a fine boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Howard and welcomed into their family.
Community entries recount visits by Walter Mahan Nannie Markle Lola Rable and others from Merom Clay City Dugger and Green Castle. School began with teachers Bessie Entwhistle Maggie Mcgrew C N Thralls and R V Railsback. A horse theft near town and a buggy accident near New Lebanon are noted along with sick lists and family visits.
Jessie Hill of Sullivan guests Doll Kendall on Sunday. Mrs. Haseltine Dooley of Rockville visits her father Jackson Hinkle. Mayme Buckley of Shelburn and Minnie Manwaring with Minnie Beasley travel to Terre Haute. Epworth League Union Meeting draws large attendance. next gathering planned for Pimento in December. Various locals, including Mr. and Mrs. Lash, Wallis, Kennedy, Branson, St John, Jennings and others, travel or host events around the area.
Old U C opens its doors on Tuesday with Irvin Starr returning to teach after a year out of school. S Koshiba from Japan will attend this year. Stanley and Co have improved their store room with paint paper and added shoes. V O Adams moves into a cottage bought from Dr Stoddard on Phillips Street. Josiah Cook and Ed Alvord with families started overland to Ohio. Wallace Kroone and Phebe Johnson are very ill this summer. Lulu Sparks is sick with typhoid fever.
Bee Cummins and family moved to Vernon Indiana. Harry Alumbaugh clerks at Anderson Bros. drug store. W E Farris has been sick. Joe Akin bought stock for R W Akins Sons in Cincinnati. Mrs Sarah Kivett from Sullivan visited. Holiness meeting drew many locals from Sullivan. M R Trimble from Vincennes came on business. Charles Prose made a business trip. Fred Dutton did business at Vincennes. Eight year old Frank Jenkins died of diarrhea. funeral held. interment in I O O F cemetery. School opening postponed to Sept 25. Edna Johnson left for Terre Haute to study music. Carlisle Masons hosted banquet for Charles Rotramel. visitors from Sullivan and Bicknell enjoyed the evening. Rev James Hixson attended Greencastle conference.
Mason Bruner visited Bloomfield where he works for J B Stalcup drug company Palmers Prairie. Eldridge of Delcarbo and Branson near Farmersburg appeared in the area. Mrs Caroline Rich and Stella of Debcarbo traveled to Sullivan. Steve Leach plans a new residence. Blanche Hughes stayed with Juna Botts near Sullivan last week. Reed Shelburn Ed Rouse of Star City passed through Friday. John Thomas and family visited Aud Price and family Sunday. Charley Bolinger near Shelburn was in town Saturday. Mrs John Marlow is very ill. Mr Fisher Jr of Sullivan bought timber Wednesday. W A Nelson and son were in Sullivan Wednesday. William Showmaker traveled to Prairie Creek Thursday. William Martin of Sullivan visits W Z Payne and family. R J Thompson visited his father Samuel Woodsmall and wife Terre Haute, and C A Lloyd and family of Farmersburg. John Lloyd Henry Thompson and family were guests of Theophilus Lloyd. Mrs Zona Dix is on the sick list.
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