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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1905
Page
3
Dan Gantz returns home from Arkansas while Walter Callahan comes home from Indianapolis. Mary Ada Callahan leaves for Indianapolis with Halting notices. Miss Mary Hubbard heads to Terre Haute. Rev J E Liduck appointed pastor in Washington following a death. A string of visits, moves, and small town events fill the page.
A collage of brief society items lists moves visits and travel plans including Miss Nora Bowman from near Epsom and Miss Belva Clinton heading to Indianapolis. George M Critchlow and A M Clark and H H Crooke transact business while several families visit relatives or plan trips to Terre Haute Petersburg and Danville. A short feature on tarpon abundance in a Country Life In America note closes the page.
Quotation contrasts the unhappy man who sits and thinks with the happy man who acts. It cites the traditional Englishman as one who kills if necessary and the traditional Frenchman as one who makes love.
The Chicago News recounts a light moment where a bride asks for her hand in marriage and her father plays up a joke. Miss Cutting notes the father’s fondness for humor, placing the scene in a warm family tradition.
Early Wednesday witnesses found the remains of a poker joint dumped from the room behind W. L. Stoy’s drug store. Items included chips, cards, a gambling table, a stove and chairs with roof damage showing the fall to ground. George Ed Seneff claimed the goods and stored them, amid town talk of his gambling room.
Observers note widespread strikes among animals including horses that refuse saddling and restive birds that desert nests. Starlings and warblers show similar behavior while black and yellow ants trade tasks or switch workers. Rabbits also exhibit periodic labor refusals, disrupting burrowing patterns.
A London Answers note explains how a redhot poker behaves in cold and boiling water with a vapor sheath forming around the metal in steam, reducing heat transfer. It also recounts a 1640 Portuguese royal episode where an Irish merchant, John Darcy, served as nominal king of Portugal from December 1 to December 6.
In the Daviess Circuit Court March Term 19 1906 Paris M Laughlin Administrator of U G Laughlin deceased has filed an account and vouchers for fiscal settlement The court will examine the settlement on April 21 1906 At Washington Indiana all heirs creditors or legatees must appear and show cause if any why the account should not be approved Witness Clerk and Seal of Daviess Court March 24 1906 E T Laughlin Atty W A Wallace Clerk mrarrest
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet notes a student who loves literature and spends frugally, implying he is a devoted but economical learner. the exchange labels him a close student and highlights his thrift.
A reflective quip attributed to Scott notes the perils of starting deception. It warns that deceit tends to entangle the deceiver first, hinting at moral and strategic costs in misdirection.
Sunday night one block of business houses in Elnora burned, twenty three buildings lost, estimated $15 000. Fire started in Arch Yazel’s rear room drug store. youths reported it after midnight. Firefighters lacked apparatus. residents saved merchandise. Looted or damaged properties listed include Arch Yazel three store rooms and drug store 9 000 loss 33 500, Thomas English barber shop 100 complete loss, and others from J F L Danner to Corbin and Wisman with various losses.
Petition filed by A F Stoy and others to extend and pave a one and a half mile stone road from Odeon and Burnsity road to the Madison county line. The hearing is set for May 2 before the Daviess County Board of Commissioners at the Washington courthouse.
Notice of sale by order of Daviess Circuit Court. Commissioner will sell private sale in Oden Indiana on April 29 1905. Property includes southwest quarter of the southwest quarter and part of northeast quarter of the same section. Terms: one third cash one third in 12 months and one third in 28 months with 6 percent interest notes secured by mortgage. E T Laughlie referee.
Notice is given that Milton B Ledgerwood et al filed a petition in Daviess County Auditor Indiana seeking road improvement by grading graveling and stone paving on a two mile section in Madison Township. The Board of Commissioners will hear the petition on May 2 at the Washington courthouse.
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