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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1905
Page
3
An ad listing numerous discounted goods including shoes, suits, handkerchiefs, suspenders, hose, cotton batt felt and muslin, glassware and tableware, salt, soap, and other notions. It markets low prices and bulk quantities, prompting quick purchases during a fall sale.
In Burns City news the report lists residents and visitors such as Bushsman Sims Miller and Osburne family. Townsfolk attend events including a Baset dinner and State Horticultural meeting. Weather brings rain and wind with some crop damage. locals prepare for a baseball game with the Rough Riders.
Local notes describe Rink attending the old soldiers reunion at West Baden Springs while neighbors discuss crops rain delays and upcoming threshing. Several deaths and visitors are noted including Aunt Marvy Roberts and Lycurgus Deck in this Daviess County fragment.
Weather disruption from a Sunday night storm caused phone outages and prompted David Weaver to report, while Thomas Milton and Dr. Campbell led crews to haul gravel for the road system in Wheatland. The Elmore township hurricane passed with a gentle rain that night, appreciated by all.
Mrs Davie A Pate near Brample was sick early in the week. M O Pate attended the Martin County teachers institute. D B Wadsworth and Henry Woodruff traveled to Odon for business. J M Wicklepleck began mining east of town Tuesday. Herman Stoy visits grandmother Mrs Jenny Casey. Esoma Mosier of Loogootee hosted Misa Efe Casey. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Elmer Mary feid of east Van Buree on Friday Aug 4. Bernard Pate of Terre Haute visited briefly. Mrs Porter and granddaughter from Bedford visit near Center church. Mrs O P Allen died July 31 near Brackenship. burial at Kilgore Cemetery on Aug 2. Maud Bean improves from typhoid fever. Mud Bike Gardener Henry Thayer makes weekly trips to Linton. C W Ritter and Deans and Charles Moore attend K P lodge at Newberry. Oliver Mumaw and family attend church at Mud Pike after six and a half years away. Old Soldiers Reunion in Newberry. cantina funds from Newberry saloons used. canal water the refreshment. A heavy rain visited the area early Monday, but no local damage unlike Madison, Elmore and Steele townships. Mrs William Williams dies after months of illness. funeral at home and burial at Agnesville Cemetery. Mrs Jacob H Realer dies after short illness. funeral by Rev Hogan at M E Church. large crowd. burial at Eaglesville Cemetery.
The storm caused significant damage to crops and fences across the area. Local residents Alfred Sims James Wayman Ossie and Lands Laughlin visited relatives in nearby towns. Community activities included Fraternal Meeting at Plainville and a St Michael picnic.
Around Lasca reports threshing nearly finished. Picnics and peddlers are many. Several locals will travel to Terre Haute for work soon. Grandma Hoover suffers rheumatism and cold. Many attendees joined the Fraternal Meeting at Fiainville. A Shiloh church meeting is set for August 12 and 13.
Regular correspondent notes visitors and residents in Farlen area. L D Vickers and Elmer Pershing plus families visited from nearby towns on weekend and weekdays. names include Jonas Davis from Odeo, Ed Stotts from Oder, J D Laughlin from Martin County, Harve Garten, George Critchlow, Art Trueblood of Var Barena, and John Ketchem among others.
Community notes report the Farlen store transfer from D W Hayes to Chas Plumer. A Uncle Henry Walls Sunday service drew 300 to 400 with children performing recitations and songs. Rev Blankenship spoke in the morning and Rev Taylor in the afternoon. a basket dinner accompanied the picnic. Aug 6 1905 obituary for Clay Callahan notes his death and Mount Zion Cemetery burial. He leaves parents and many friends. a devotional verse closes the report.
A fragmented description of Elephant Rock near Meacham in the Blue mountains portrays the stone statue as a colossal western idol visible from the old stage road. The jagged figure stands against the sky, inspiring awe as travelers gaze upon its rugged perfection.
Lisbon dispatch reports Dr. A1 de Freitas, once jailed for poisoning, had his 25 year sentence commuted by King Carlos to banishment from Portugal. His wife supported him as he left for Berlin to pursue a claimed leprosy cure, amid rumors of curing others before arrest.
An English girl, Ciera Casey, living in Tangier with her Moorish husband Mohammed Ben Bulkhassan, laments misery and loneliness in a letter home. She recounts abuse by her husband and expresses longing to return to England, hoping for eventual release from her unhappy marriage.
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