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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1907
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Newt Griffin of Indianapolis are guests of relatives here. Numerous residents move, visit, or report health issues and travels including I D Risher in Pittsburg and Clarksville, and George Ferree planning mill work in Mississippi. A Second District soldiers reunion set for October at Linton. Abraham Lofton of Des Moines hires Union. several local notables visit or relocate.
Mrs Daisy Jackson and her two children visited her father T B O Haver in Pleasantville last week. Indiana State Fair attendees included S A Maxwell and couples McClung and Bough. Will Taylor moved to St George Georgia to settle permanently. Typhoid fever sickens Will Bedwell. Various visits occurred with Hindman in Odon and Ray Sims in the area. The township S S convention met at the M E church with E A Powell presiding. Miss Ethel Booker secretary. Rev Barr Indian Prairie and Prof John Reising spoke. Dr Shepherd discussed S S curriculum. C Bough spoke. Mrs Lou Hunley elected secretary. James A Payne Sr president. Emery Powell vice president. Representatives from Indian Prairie attended. Miss Dick Goldman from Dugger returned for millinery season. T N McClung and daughter Ella attended soldiers union near New Lebanon. Dr and Mrs John T Phillips of Westphalia visited town. James Anderson returned from Clay City. James Wellington improved his home with cement walks. Dr John O Haver of Danville Ill visited T B O Haver. Mrs Lizzie Douthitt and granddaughter Fay McCammon visited Sullivan and Terre Haute. Asbury Harvey sold stock and implements and will move to Terre Haute with daughters Effie and Vesta entering business college.
Miss Luna Louise Chambers daughter of Dr and Mrs W B Chambers wed Roy McClanahan of Sullivan Indiana at 8 30pm Wednesday in their east Main Street home. The private ceremony was conducted by Rev Clarence Hall Wilson with witnesses only the families. The couple plans a brief trip and will reside in Sullivan after January 1 where he runs a shoe business.
Unclaimed letters listed for ladies and gents at Sullivan Indiana postoffice dated September 25 1907 will be sent to the Dead Letter Office if not called for within two weeks. Names include Mrs Ella Augustine Miss Edith Baysley Miss Fanca Chicksaw Mrs J Leven Miss Ora Mage Miss Nettie Reitzes Miss Esta Elbert Anderson Virge Colvin Hawkee Pirl Jones Henry Miller Perry Mitchell C C Peterson W B Redman Chas H Smith D G Turner James H M D Zulauf Phil. Callers must say advertised.
Ray Yeager and Emory Burton both age 16 confessed to stealing $30 from S. S. Yeager's home last week. The pair entered via a side window while Yeager attended a church dedication. They later worked at a Merom restaurant and part of the money was allegedly hidden in an ice cream freezer.
The West Jackson Hill Coal Mining and Transport Company calls a stockholders meeting in Evansville Indiana to elect directors for the ensuing year and to consider other business. The meeting will be held at the secretary's office on Monday October 21 1907 from 10 a.m. to noon. Gilbert S Wright secretary.
Judge Piety of Terre Haute rules the blind tiger law valid except for a Section 1 provision targeting wholesale liquor dealers. The decision lets police seize liquor from unlicensed premises, issue search warrants, and pursue hidden bar rooms, sustaining Sections 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 and 14 as constitutional.
An advertisement proclaims Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best healing balm for sores ulcers burns scalds cuts and piles. Sold by Joe K. Smock & Son druggists for 25 cents with a money back guarantee.
A batch of actions includes Herbert E Bland against Fairbanks township for damages. Indiana Southern Coal Company named in two complaints by Carrie J Trueblood administrator and David E Everhart guardian. Claude Luzader sues Jackson Hill Coal and Coke for damages. Henry A Hazelrod sues several Hazelrods in a replevin. Ruth Bates seeks divorce from John Bates. Bessie V Irvin seeks divorce with child custody and alimony.
Merom scenes include farewell sermon by Rev Hogan. Residents visit relatives in Terre Haute and Sullivan. Prof Hatten returns from western trip via Olympia and New Rockford. Ethelyn Pittman to Dayton Ohio. Palestine education plans. fall term begins September 30. Merom homes near finish as a small child dies of whooping cough.
Attorneys Charles D. Hunt and George W. Buff filed claims with Knox county circuit court for fees in defense of Walter Greene. Greene, the Vincennes wife murderer, was tried last spring, convicted, and is serving a life sentence at Michigan City. Buff seeks 400 dollars and Hunt 500 dollars.
Lost between 9 30 p m yesterday and noon today a bilious attack with nausea and sick headache. The loss was occasioned by finding at Joe K Smock s drug store a box of Dr King s New Life Pills guaranteed for biliousness malaria and jaundice. 265c.
Farmersburg Sept 24 Joseph Hoopengarner suffered severe crushing injuries to the hips while at work in the Road mine. Dr Pearl Bennett attends him.
Sliver Chaney offers farm loans of 2000 dollars and above at four and one half percent. Loans below that amount carry five percent.
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