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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1916
Page
5
Mrs Sidney Simmons of Fair Haven GN endorses Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a cure for cholera morbus in a seven year old boy and claims other family members have benefited from the medicine. Also notes money to loan at five percent on good farm loans with five year term and prepay privilege.
A fragmented timetable listing Chicago and Terre Haute lines with arrival and departure times. Mentions towns such as Jasonville Linton Beohunter Bedford and Odoa. includes scattered times like 525 p.m 12:30 p.m 6:46 p.m and 1:04 p.m. Indistinct routes and stray abbreviations appear throughout.
A gospel lesson urges cheerful, voluntary giving as a duty and blessing. Paul frames giving as free benevolence not covetousness, tying generosity to God’s grace. The talk stresses systematic contributions, the seed and harvest analogy, and training children to practice giving through the church.
Rev Ernest Roberts announces prayer meeting and Sunday services at Odon with union events at M E church. Fourth and last quarterly conference for Odon charge set for Aug 14 at 2 30 with reports due from Trustees Class Leaders S S Superintendents and all officers. Annual conference in Plainville Aug 23 requires credit reports. Local social notes follow detailing visits and family activities.
Pastor Rev J W Trowbridge leads Sunday service at 10 30 am Epworth League meets Tuesday evening Prayer Meeting Thursday evening Choir practice Friday evening Sunday school at 9 30 am Activities listed for weekly worship and fellowship duties.
The Christian Church posts weekly activities: Choir practice Thursday at 7 15 pm, Bible School Sunday at 9 30 am, Junior Meeting Sunday at 2 00 pm. Friday evening activities also listed at 7 15 pm.
Rufus Laughlin and family visited with Mr and Mrs W M Pruett Sunday. Orrin Csborn returned home from Danville where he had been at school. Ed Ferguson and family visited with D W Osborn and family. Jord Fields spent Sunday with relatives at Leogeotee. Mrs Roscoe Wade and son Charles visited relatives in Chicago. Aldo York and family spent Sunday with Samuel Chambers and family. Henry Connell and O S Connell with friends in Green Co.
Odon people are astonished by the instant action of buck thorn bark glycerine and other ingredients in Adler-i-ka. One spoonful relieves constipation sour stomach or gas and acts on both lower and upper bowel. A few doses may relieve appendicitis and a short treatment helps chronic stomach trouble.
A playful 1916 Q and A piece ponders puns about a child with a toy pistol, a bride and her father, fish scales, a For Rent sign in a window, and inheritance with a pot of luck. The mock riddle prompts readers to smile at language twists and double meanings.
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