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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
5
The report lists residents and visitors from multiple towns. Url and Victor Bgchtel visited Shoals Saturday, Mrs Green and son stayed with W H Reinheart, and a large crowd attended the Olive-Saturday night festival. Other locals from Newberry, Bedford, Burns City, Seymour, Indianapolis and nearby areas appear in brief notices of travel and visits.
The Odon Drag Co completed six years of operation with a gain over the prior year and consistent yearly increases. Officials attribute the rise to a significantly expanded paint and wallpaper business.
Threshing continues as Mr Magner is very low. Berry pickers rest. Frank Jackson was at Terre Haute last week. Mrs Myrtle Montgomery visits sister Mrs Page of Kansas City. Residents haul bailed straw due to short crops. Miss Bernadette Keller and Eula Warren shopped in Odon Saturday. R M Williams and family visited Mrs Keller and daughter. K F Kutch and T C O Westhafer fished late week. Prof J S Westhafer from Buffalo Oxla says late crops safe there but earlier ones ruined. Mrs Hayden Osborn visited. Festival planned on M E church lawn Saturday night. Miss Bernadette Keller will leave.
Incidents and visits in Odon and surrounding areas include Bernard Singleton and wife welcoming a son in the village, W B French and Charles Strange with spouses on various visits, and multiple residents traveling to Bramble and Washington. Straw hauling, wheat threshing, Rural Free Delivery events, and teaching license exams are reported along with illnesses and family gatherings.
Mr and Mrs Mock visited Mary McCall Thursday. Several families and individuals visited relatives in the area through Friday and Sunday including Bynam McCormick Grove and Campbell. Attendees at prayer meeting noted small turnout due to rain.
The Madison Township trustee in Daviess County proposes for 1914 year expenditures and taxes at the September 2 1913 meeting at Qodon. Items include Township $240 Local Tuition $5100 Special School Tax $3210 Road Tax $900 with respective taxes of 5 cents, 50 cents and 50 cents per poll and per hundred dollars. Total expenditures listed as 944000 with total tax 80 cents per hundred dollars.
The document is signed by R. J. McCallian representing Trustec and dated July 29 1913. It notes formal trust actions or declarations pending further details in public records.
Mr and Mrs Col Kinnaman spent Sunday with Walter Herron and family. The Sorkiwood and Clark families visited Isaac Wagoner and family. Chas Herron attended Terre Haute on Tuesday. Margeet Quatingham visited Tom Wirt on Wednesday.
Rev Daugherty was S urday. H R Stalcup and family visited in Jasonville Friday. Miss Ivy Crecelius is visiting at Terre Haute. Wm Lehman was here from Linton Monday. Otto Deckard was here from Terre Haute Saturday. Mr and Mrs Earl Melsheimer were at Linton Saturday. J O Jewell of Terre Haute was here Mr and Mrs Arthur Shufflebarger, Mr and Mrs J H Dennis and son Harold were at Linton Monday. Miss Selah Cine of Newberry is visiting relatives here. Harry Laughlin was at Linton Monday on business. While bailing straw on Dillion hill Tuesday Ziba Haynes got his hand into the machine and suffered painful injury. The machine caught his hand tearing away all the flesh to the bones, but no bones were broken. James Williams was at Linton Saturday. Base thieves were again visitors in Elnora Thursday night when J S Ketchem's scale house was entered and a camera belonging to Harry Laughlin who had a dark room in the building, was taken. The camera was a 5x7 Seneca View Camera equipped with about a 740 Anastigmat lens. The entire loss of camera and lens was over 60 dollars. Louis Houghland of Terre Haute visited his father here Sunday. The Holiness Camp Meeting begins here Friday. Mrs Bessie Wier of St Louis is visiting Lewis Owens here from Odon Tuesday.
The quote contrasts Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir George Birdwood on health and comfort. It rails against living in a controlled parlor and patience with illness, arguing it is better to lose health boldly than to endure a drawn out sickness.
A historical note credits C Mgreil in San Francisco with early kerosene distillation from crude petroleum in 1857. Earlier efforts by Andreas Pies heated petroleum from the Nearhall region in Los Angeles county, with lamps reportedly using oil from the mission San Fernando.
The fragment suggests a discussion on Rome and a perceived decline of a nation, with emphasis on pervasive germandiszing themes and the onset of societal weakening as observed or argued by the author.
A recollection of Rose Thornton’s unhappy childhood under a harsh stepmother and a deadbeat inheritance battle. The narrator recounts love thwarted by finances and misfortune, Rose’s fleeing home, and a disputed will amid suspicions of fraud and peril.
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