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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1899
Page
11
Local advertisement for T. K. Sherman & Son listing a variety of goods including umbrellas ribbed hose ribbons and textiles. It notes prices such as 70 cents for Ladies umbrellas 81.00 quality, 12 cents for ribbed hose and 2 cents per yard for ribbons, with ranges across fabrics summer wash goods and handkerchiefs.
The store advertises fall fabrics including reversible golf plaids, Venetian and Scotch plaids, serge and velvet shades, all wool and brocade options. Prices are slashed for quick selling with yard-wide fabrics valued far higher, and the store touts an influx of customers attracted by circulars and an expanded sales staff.
A shop offers carpets and linoleums with 15 to 25 yard patterns and various wool remnants. Moquette and Wilton rugs priced from 1.25 to 2.40. Straw matting, window balusters, and assorted millinery hats are featured with fall designs and golf hats trimmed in white silk.
Three dozen pairs of window laces are 3 yards long and priced at 50 cents per pair. Two dozen pairs and 625 yards of imitation fringe net are offered at 79 cents per pair. About fifty fallen pairs formerly sold up to $2 each. Curtains, around 100 odd, were 82 to 83.50 per pair. They will close at S cents each.
Mrs. Walter Thompson visits Ashmore yesterday to see relatives while Mrs. Ed Ross of Terre Haute visits the H. M. Ross family. Mrs. Belle Leonardi arrives from Tampa to stay with Judge Buff. Listings note millinery, Penninsular Planish Steel Range exhibits at Long Warren & Co. on October 5 6 7, with free refreshments. An 160 acre Shaker Prairie land sale near Sullivan is offered by N R Miller Carlisle Ind. and coal prices rise.
Thieves entered the residences of Win Bicknell Dr Freeman and Walter Bottenfield Sunday night. Bicknell lost clothes and Mrs. Bicknell's purse with mantel change and a gold watch. Freeman’s back door was unlocked and $50 plus clothes were taken. his watch was left. Bottenfield suffered about $1.30 in small change. nothing else was taken.
An elegant new line of silks offered with 50 patterns in colors and weaves. Prices range from 29 to 82.00 per yard with descriptions of stripes figures and checks and waist trimming silks in rich fashionable shades.
An emergency sale offers ready to wear suits, worsteds, and fabrics at low prices. Stock includes about 240 items, with prices noted around 87.50 to 3.60 for various school and dress garments. The dealer emphasizes clearing space for new stock while highlighting durable outfits for spring.
A scanned fragment lists yardages and prices for various fabrics including 2000 yards of Pacific and Windsor calico at 1 cent per yard and 2000 yards Simpson fast brack milk and calico at 21 cents per yard. It contains garbled additional items with mixed color names, dress fabrics, waist materials, and shorting prices. The text is partially illegible with many misspellings and unreadable phrases.
Ladies fine quality underskirts sold at 64 cents and 31.00 value. Two ladies plaid and stripe skirts of 82.00 quality offered at 1s cents each. Additional fine silk skirts and colored dress goods priced to clear. Sale emphasizes bright colorings and mercerized silk items in multiple colors.
Advertisement notes 15 Ladies Silk Waists in new S53 quality and 21 Ladies' Silk Waists with fall patterns priced at 3.05 and 45 Ladies' Silk Waists at 7.50 Quality. Textile ad highlights Silk Waists for women with seasonal patterns and price points.
The Townsley residence hosted 75 neighbors on September 23 for James E Townsley and wife celebrating her 35th birthday. Guests arrived by wagon carriage and on foot to enjoy abundant food and many cakes. Elders aged 40 to nearly 90 gave speeches and prayers were said before goodbyes and farewells.
Pawnee Bill presented a good show with Indians and cowboys as advertised though fewer bands than pictured. The Wild West troupe clashed with Princeton students during a street parade, a skirmish remembered by Rev. Sonne, then a student.
An editorial excerpt contemplates life and death and the agnostic view of death as possibly a door to another state. The piece argues no man can predict the afterlife or the value of death versus life, praising love and human bonds over eternal life. A local ad promotes the New Crown Sewing Machine with 15 years’ durable use cited, priced at $22 50 with a perpetual guarantee and 30 days trial, from Reed's Drug and Piano House.
Peter Hopewell 75 wed Miss Sarah Ruddell 60 in Sullivan Indiana at the home of her brother George Ruddell. Ceremony by Rev Yocum of the Christian church. Hopewell a retired New Lebanon businessman with no children, brings a comfortable estate and starts a late marriage.
Lon Bensinger of Carlisle purchased a tract from Sam Mason near the poor farm to establish a track farm with irrigation. Mason advertised in the Union. after a quick viewing, the sale followed within a week. Bensinger plans to move this fall after finishing duties at his old home. The Union is praised for its wide circulation among local business and industrious residents.
Burglary reported at Sammy Draper residence between daybreak and noon. Suspect entered the home and stole $23.00 in cash. No arrests listed. Local police are investigating the burglary.
Mrs. Beveridge wife of Senator Beveridge has sent a chorograph to her grandfather Cagle Pinamas Roberts who lives in this city. The Chicago Tribune praised her daring nature and Manila voyage with her husband noting her beauty on the crowded boat and her reticence amid wartime scenes.
A meeting of Sunday school workers from Sullivan area churches organized a minor normal class to train Sunday school teachers. About twenty four members will study Hauill normal lessons with Indiana U S Association guidance. McGuire will instru ct. First meeting at First Baptist Church Friday October 8. Books 25 cents from County Superintendent Richard Park.
F M Higgings of Seneca reports two years of hemorrhoid suffering, cured entirely by two boxes of Buuklen’s Arnica Salve, proclaimed the best for piles and guaranteed. Available for 25 cents from Joe K Smock druggist with neighborly Union news support.
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