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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1901
Page
3
Easter eggs are plentiful this season due to industrious hens and cold storage. Dyes come in single colors at five cents per packet with a wide range of kaleidoscopic shades suitable for dyeing eggs and other items.
Local column notes William Clark from Bedford and Len Hastings from El nora visit. The Business Men's Association plans a Tuesday meeting. Various residents travel to Indianapolis Chicago and Terre Haute. Community events include gas oil discussions and social visits at Grand Hotel Tolliver Cooper and local leaders.
Local notes report Odie McCord's return from Terre Haute. Various small items list visits, business trips, and social calls involving residents such as J. C. Mitchell Parmenter Ethel Anderson and families. Easter services announced at M E church. Edna Scamp to teach a ten week term beginning April 39.
Willie Matone broke his leg yesterday morning at school during a running incident. He fell after tripping with several companions on top of him, causing a leg fracture.
Mr and Mrs Ziba Webster hosted a large birthday dinner for their son George and granddaughter Etta Lois on Tuesday April 2. The gathering included four generations with many relatives and friends from Cambridge City Indianapolis and local families. A later note mentions a Monroe cash and reed stallion at the Odon livery barn on Saturdays and the Humerick house on Mondays.
Frаnz Sipes Sundayed in Martin county. Henry Taylor of Odon visited Saturday. Bob Richardson went to the north end Sunday. Rev. J. C. Warriner of Newberry was here Saturday. William Toon of Martin county heard wedding bells soon. Miss Zeta Stotts returned from Washington Monday. Seth L. Ketcham was at the county seat Monday. R. B. Laughlin becomes a fruit-tree agent. Mr and Mrs J. M. Stotts visited Scotland Wednesday. Miss Zeta Stotts went to Terre Haute today to enter the State Normal. Homer Bechtel and William Hopkin of Linton visiting relatives here. Ea Richardson accepted a clerkship in Shirts & Co store at Scotland.
Names Hauteur Saturday Aden Hubbard Paris Laughlin Wed nesday to enter the State Normal. William Ketcham Edgar Stotts and Misses May Ketcham and Elsie Stotts attended closing exercises of the school at No. 4 Thursday. Emery Montgomery went to Harrodsburg Saturday to visit a few days then proceed to Bloomington to enter Indiana University.
Notice of town election in Odon Daviess county Indiana to be held Monday May 6 1901 first Monday of May for town officers including one Trustee First Ward one Trustee Third Ward one Clerk one Treasurer and one Marshal signed by A C Helm Town Clerk. Also a remedy advertisement for Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets sold by Z Webster.
Kiowa and Comanche Opening Agency invites homeseekers to apply for 20,000 farms of 160 acres each under the Home stead Law. The reservation lies in western Oklahoma with prairie bottoms groves streams and mild climate. Old soldiers receive special advantages. Address L. O. Cox Comanche Ind Ter for full particulars with a stamp.
Marian Rooke manager for T M Thompson, milinery importer at 1658 Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, states a severe cold kept her awake and hampered work. She notes a milliner used Chamberlains Cough Remedy and she bought it, claiming it acted like magic and she soon improved. Z Webster sells it.
An advertising notice promises quick profits selling a self improvement book. It claims agents can earn $10 to $15 daily by distributing a complete outfit for a 66 percent commission, with freight paid and credit offered, citing Mrs. A L Morse of Tippecanoe County Indiana as an example.
W C Grarren of The Pasture Stock Food Co at 324 Times Building Chicago offers $15 weekly plus 10 percent on all sales for a man with horse and buggy to sell Pasture Stock Food. The notice targets selling beef hides horse hides furs dry bones oil rubber tin copper brass and related goods at high market prices.
Harley Lamb, 17, reportedly used a knife to fatally wound Walter Correll, age 22, after a confrontation near Mair and Spring streets. Correll died about 9 45 PM. Lamb confessed claiming self defense and was arrested. Correll’s family and town mourn, with services planned at Walnut Cemetery as the coroner conducts an inquest.
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