News Progress

•May 1, 2019•
Country Financial representative Elizabeth Houser of Sullivan has earned a position on the insurance group’s All American team.
Houser ended 2018 ranked 121 among Country Financial’s more than 2000 agency managers and financial representatives in 17 states. Read More

Photo by Senora King

•May 1, 2019•
Blanca Fernandez Martinez, a foreign exchange student from Galicia, Spain, visited Sullivan High School April 15 to share more about Spanish culture with the students of the Spanish classes.
Fernandez Martinez shared the various holidays celebrated in Spain and food typically prepared and eaten during these celebrations. Famous structures of Spain and their significance to the country were included in her presentation.
The differences in education was another topic of Fernandez Martinez’s presentation. Read More

•May 1, 2019•
By Jerry L. Ginther
NP Guest Columnist

At 14 years old, his job, his personality and his car favorably impressed me. At first meeting, it was the job of telegraph operator and freight agent for the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI) that caught my interest.
Enter Bert Benjamin Condo. Bert was a tall, lean gentleman probably in his early 60s when we first met. Actually, I would later learn that this wasn’t our first meeting. I was just too young to remember the first, which had occurred when I was about three years old. From that second meeting Bert would become very important to my future. Bert became one of the best friends and mentors that a young boy could have. My long railroad career as a telegraph operator and train dispatcher was the product of this second meeting and resulting friendship. Read More

25 Years Ago This Week

Family will gather at Sullivan Living Center to celebrate Hattie Pearse Bolin’s 100 years of life. The Sullivan native and widow began teaching at the age of 16 at Miller School, a one-room schoolhouse in Moultrie County. She married Guy Bolin in June of 1914. They had five children.
Midnight, an 11 week-old female puppy is the newest member of the Sullivan Living Center family. Employees for the month of March were Gwen Murphy, Betty Purdeu, Bonnie Dick and Janet Reedy.
Luke Bland of Bethany, who was a member of the Okaw Conference and regional golf championship team, has informed Millikin golf coach Gerald Temples of his intention to enroll at Millikin in the fall. Bland averaged 39.8 for nine holes and helped set a school record with 17 wins this year.
The Prairieland Frontiersmen held their 18th Annual Spring Rendezvous. Organizer Steve Wood predicted it could be one of the largest gatherings they have sponsored. Matches sponsored by the Frontiersmen include a rifle match, X-stick match, woods walk, trap and skeet, trade gun match, ladies’ woods walk, ladies’ fun match, kids’ events and an egg shoot. Read More