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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1915
Page
4
Indiana Harbor reports the North Township Republican Club of Lake County will stage a major rally and barbecue at Lake Front Park on September 25. Gov and U S Senate candidates plus state officers are expected to attend and address the crowd. committees are organizing the event.
Mrs BE Rigges is ill at her West Washington home Harold Booth left Crawfordsville to attend Wabash College Miss Gertrude Cain visits relatives and heads to Petersburg Indiana Mildred Peid travels with companions to Illinois University in Urbana Illinois Various residents move, visit, or travel to Boston Purdue Bloomington Sullivan and Indianapolis for schooling church conferences and family events A twelve year old son breaks his leg at Elm Park school Dr J Hurley Poston opens a dentistry office in Greenfield Indiana
Elijah Bell aged 44 died from a bullet wound in Terre Haute after a wife shot him following repeated alleged attacks. Bell, once of Farmersburg, was employed in Vandalia railroad yards. His wife Jeanette Powell Bell is jailed for murder. Surviving: one son Frank Dell and three sisters. Funeral at Liberty church.
Sullivan Woolen Mills, idle during receivership, reopened last week under the direction of Otho Springer and John Y W. Lindley. Stephen Brunger runs manufacturing with thirty years’ experience. Orders from public institutions are being filled while plans for reorganization and stock sale aim to stabilize finances and restart full production.
Thomas Steve zon a Cass township miner and Thomas Lippeatt of Dugger passed naturalization examinations before Judge Bricwell in the circuit court Monday. Ste venson, born in Scotland, came to the United States in 1881 while Lippeatt, born in England, arrived in 1884. Prof E Snarr from the high school attended the court along with history and civic classes.
Rumor says Ohio Oil Company seeks to buy the Herman Heien tract west of Shelburn with many producing wells It also moves to acquire forty acres from the Shepherd tract and the Octo Company’s interest in the Wash Osburn holdings If concluded the company plans three deep test wells
S. M. Pegg of Juarez Mexico is visiting his aunt Mrs. Austin Sinclair. This is his first visit in eighteen years. He manages a hotel in Cuidad Mexico and brings several notes of various denominations tied to a Villa suit. He says the notes will rise in value if Villa wins and be worthless if he loses.
Milton A. Haddon is named trustee for the George F. Botts bankruptcy case. Ed Turman O L Springer and John A. Mattix are appointed as appraisers of the property involved.
A Sullivan man reflects on the vanished stone pump era and moisture-free earthen water lines once common in the county. The piece recounts Ed Lacey and George T. Briggs and the long-vanished water sweeps, plus a vivid Alabama moonshine tale of ambush, a cave still, and seven moonshiners killed.
Attorney Hays and Hays of this city representing Frank Spencer, trustee of Jefferson township, moved to quash an indictment against Spencer for alleged fraud in last year's township election. Judge Bridwell sustained the motion. Spencer was indicted by the grand jury for violation of the corrupt practice act.
A bolt hit the Holt Park home on Section Street during a fierce storm Friday afternoon. The chimney was wrecked and a grate in the sitting room demolished. Mrs. Park, in an adjoining room, was slightly stunned.
Clyde McInnes nine year old son of Mr and Mrs J D McInnis of the city escaped injury when lightning struck an iron poker he held in the Bur ton grocery during a thunderstorm. Rubber soled tennis shoes are credited with saving his life as the poker flew across the room and scorched his sleeve but left him unhurt.
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