The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-06-03
SULLIVAN.

tian; four stores, hotel, two doctors,
two blacksmith shops, sshoe shop, a
harness shop, a meat market, a sawmill,
an elevator, creamery and a high
school, second to none in the county, ex-
cept the Ashland High School.
Sullivan is located on the B. & 0. r.
R., and is surrounded by farming and
grazing lands Of unsurpassed fertility
and productiveness. A man who has
spent several years in the west stated
that nowhere in that great grazing
country had he seen pasturage equal in
its uniform cOntinuances throughout the
season, to that in and about Sullivan.
Since the advent Of the railroad the
farmers of Sullivan have turned their at
tentiOn to large extent to the raising
of hay. 1t was stated by an official Of
the B. & 0. that more baled hay is
shipped from this station than from any
other of equal size on the line. So II
any of our rustics should chance to stray
into more metropolitan places and there
call down upon their heads the epithet Of
''hayseeds," let them point with pride to
thegreat stacks of bright timothy hay, dot
ting at intervals the broad acres Of their
close cropped meadows, and forget the in
tended insult in quietly meditating on
the time when Sullivan shall rise up and
take her station among the more popu-
lOus towns Of the Western Reserve.
In this article l shall speak briefly of
the schools and churches.
The Congregational Church now has
ninety-three members. It has Ladies'
Aid Society, a Foreign Missionary So
ciety, an Endeavor Society Of forty MEM
hers, of which Ira Carver is president,
and wide awake Sunday school Of over
hundred members, under the charge Of
c. L. Goodyear as superintendent, The
pastor of this church is Rev. II. f.
Thompson, who is now serving his
fourth year as pastor in this place. Two
years ago the church was repaired and
remOdled, carpeted and reseated, and
the grounds beautified by the addition Of
a stone walk. The c. E. Society is rails
ing money to purchase bell for the
church.
The Christian church has $50 members
and the usual number of auxiliary So
cieties, viz: Ladies' Aid, Missionary, a
c. E. Society of forty members Of which
Ora Arndt is president and progressive
Sunday school of 100 members, divided
into primary and advanced de .,artments.
Teachers meetings are held each week.
Vim. Clark is superintendent, with Mrs.
Andrew Arndt, superintendent of the
primary department.
Rev. j. A. Findlay is filling the pulpit
Of this church for the seventh year.
About two years age new church was
built at a cost Of $4,000.
A stranger visiting Sullivan will be
impressed with the fact that the people
do not believe in wOrshiping God in q
house poorer than the one they provide
for their own dwelling place.
Five years ago the people Of Sullivan
voted to build high school building.
Although the task was accomplished un-
der great difficulties, the work being
hlndered at every possible point by in
functions, served by a class of people who
cared more for few cents tax than the
welfare OF their children, the four years
successful operation of the schools has
proven beyond doubt the wisdom Of the
undertaking.
Il. 5. Maring, of Shiloh, O., was the
first superintendent. When he entered
upon his labOrs the great task Of arrang-
ing the great cOnglOmerate mass of seek
erS after knowledge confronted him, but
he set to work and not only brought ord
er out OF chaos, but conducted things SO
satisfactorily to all concerned that only
falling health prevented his continuing
in the position. Eugene L. Chaffee was
turned out as result Of the first years
labor.
5. 5. Mcbride, Of West Pennington, O.,
was employed by the board of education
with Roscoe c. Mcbride, assistant, to
manage the schools the second year,
Bert WhitcOmb graduated at the close Of
this years work.
Our present superintendent, w. E.
Heichel, formerly of Jeromeville, has had
charge of the school two years, Under
his mastery hand every department Of
the work has keen improved and adyanc-
ed until now we have system Of public
instruction second to none in the county
He instituted course of study and com.
pleted the work Of organizing classes
which had never been done before will
any degree of defniteness. Last veal
there were two graduates, Gertrude
Thompson and Edwin E. Jacobs. This
year there are ten, as follows: Grace
johnson, Myrtle Huber, Elose Drown
Eva Dennis, Fannie GOrham, F. E. Hub
Ter, c. W. Hyde, f. O. Huber, T. T
Goodyear, A. G. Hyde.
The five schools of the township are al
working under one system, so that wher
pupil has mastered his studies sufIici
emily to pass the required examination
he is promoted directly to the higl
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