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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1918
Page
2
The column recalls three stray chickens wandering near the Journal office blending farm memory with modern food concerns. It contrasts pastyard life with current packer led era while noting humane restraint and playful cityyard urban behaviors. Local items report visits and social calls among residents Rufus Dean and several families.
Mrs Harvey Faith spent the last part of the week with her parents Mr and Mrs C M Smiley Oral and Sulian Byrer were guests Saturday night and Sunday. Several families visited relatives including the Riggins Byrer and Faith groups.
The Chautauqua program blends difficult grand opera arias with accessible charm and entertaining feature acts. The lectures and entertainment combine to justify the admission price in a lively showcase of cultural offerings.
Scout notes advise limiting wasteful practice of cutting small timber while describing inches in diameter and six feet in length as standard measures. The report mentions farmers to be cautious about wise and profitable timber harvesting.
Mr and Mrs Will Hayes of Martin County along with Mrs Minnie Pownall and others visited Gred Boyd and family Sunday. Several families including the Stouts Richardson Meeks and Pruetts shared Sunday visits, baptisms, and church events across nearby towns. Many attendees traveled from Arthur Odon Scotland and Loogootee to spend time with relatives and friends.
A fragmentary notice references debt or obligation to the firm of M E Pickett. The readable portion indicates a formal request for payment or acknowledgment of indebtedness to the named business entity within a historical public notice context.
EPSOM hosted Mrs. James Snider of Sugar Land and Miss Rubie Groves of Trainor with Mrs. George Tomey Thursday. Others, including Lowel Keiler, Mrs. Mary Shively, Mrs. Mary Keller and daughter Bessie, and Ernest Keiler, were mentioned visiting or traveling to Plainville Bedford and Indianapolis. Township Sunday School Convention at Concord noted.
The report lists many names visiting relatives in nearby towns from Friday through Sunday. Homer Thurman and family from Fisher Illinois, Ernest Roach and Mollie Cole with the Chandlers, Ava Edwards from Plainville, Harve Chestnut, John Sears of Odon, John Arney, Joe Bechtel with London Co., Mattie Ruby Faith Orat Riggins, Curtis Overton family, W B Chandler and Harvey Byrer, Homer Myers, Eva and Autumn Clinton, Iva Sprague, Rosa Henderson Daugherty, Eli Daugherty, John Hunt of Vincennes, Lois Groves, Julian Byrer, Burns City trip, Patrick Byrer and friends from Odon are noted among the weekend visitors.
Hanns Jubilee Singers headline a Chautauqua program with seven gifted African American vocalists offering operatic and popular selections. Leader T Emerson Brooks sings bass, W A Hann performs bass, with Ernest Gamble and Mme Florence Cole Talbert also featured along with W P Talbert on cello.
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