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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1910
Page
8
Reports from Washington Street discuss a potential interurban line passing through Nashington and entering Daviess County. Key figures include city officials and the Burns Capetrae Company of Chicago. Possible routes would extend into Vincennes, with electric service connecting to Thomas electric lines. Local residents and businesses react as surveys and contractor steps move forward in late period discussions.
A page of local social notes records numerous Sunday and weekend visits among residents. Couples like Sharpless and Hastings, Boardman and Bowdoor, and Cunningham families are mentioned visiting relatives and friends around Pleasant Drill, Bunkaim, Good Hope, and nearby areas. Several individuals from Indianapolis and Atlanta are noted as visiting or staying with relatives.
Washington Herald reports Sheriff Colbert arrested Jesse Mode for collecting a $25 bill owed by John Zinkan. Mode traveled to Wheatland Tuesday to collect from Henry Backes, left the Crates & Sein barn, and was pursued by the sheriff and Zinkan. Part of the money was recovered.
A fragmented program lists parts of a church service at Christigg church on April 5. Names include Laura McNewly Lizzie Morris and Gertrude Helm with roles such as scripture lesson and benediction. The text mentions scenes or sections titled Our Southern Neighbors and Resurrection and references leaders like Lillie Neereuier.
Mrs. Nora Connell visited J. B. Phipps and family on Friday. Mrs. Ethel Clark stayed with Jas. Herron and family on Sunday. Agios Haden Alfred Osborn and families spent Sunday with D. W. Osborn. Charley Freeman passed through Monday evening. Mrs. Tom Wirts visited Mrs. Eli Racer on Monday. Mr and Mrs Jord Fields and son Herbert spent Sunday with H. M Connell. Mrs. Noah Fisher and Mrs. Win Isinnaiman visited Mrs. Perry Eubanks of Elnera on Monday.
U B church services are scheduled for next Sunday at Mud Pike 10 30 a m Pleasant Hill 2 50 p m and Odon 7 30 p m The Sunday schools of the charges are in good condition with the teachers described as the best people in the community An effort will be made to raise each school by 25 percent Will you help us.
South bound times from Terre Haute to Seymour list trains Nos 4 3 1 with intermediate stops Jasonville Linton Beehunter Elnora Odon Bedford arriving Seymour at 9 50 p.m. North bound Nos 2 4 6 from Terre Haute to Seymour show departures 1 00 a.m 4 30 p.m 9 45 p.m with stops Jasonville Linton Beehunter Elnora Odon Bedford and final Seymour arrival after 6 00 a.m.
In 1910 Clifton, Janet and her mother confront a Black Hand note after a grocer’s boy falls for Janet and the Major Cleveland’s war tales spark a clash over betrothal. A letter threatens violence, arrests follow, and the mystery unravels when mistaken identities reveal the sender.
Dorn to Mr and Mrs Terrance V Maley born Tuesday March 29 a son. Uncle John Williams ill with opetamota fever. Dr fridge in charge. Mrs Peter Wadsworth ill recently. Elijah Chestnut sick last week. Miss Anastasia Hopkins visited from Friday to Sunday. Many locals listed for visits and illnesses. residents traveled to Odon Bloomingon. J M Williams visited by Frank Overton R B Williams guests.
A license to wed was issued Friday in the county clerk's office to Charles Morton Coffman of Peters, Texas. The document records a marriage license granted in the local courthouse.
Brief note notes payments eight miles from Houston on shell road. The fragment hints at a local property or service location with payment terms tied to a period, but lacks complete context.
Southwestern Land Development Co. A. M. Clark and J. W. Burress were at Loogootee on business Saturday. Walter Sims and family south of here spent Sunday with his mother Mrs. Anna Mary Sims of Martinburg, a son of A. W. Coffman, and Celestia Etoye White of this county, daughter of George W. Potts near Alfordsville.
John Neiswanger of Elnora township has sold his farm and plans to move with his family to Washington state in a few days.
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