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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1914
Page
2
An obituary and church notices recount the life of a respected local figure with references to his poems and age. The piece notes funeral attendance and community respect, plus Sunday services, prayer meetings, and choir practices at the nearby church. Family and local names appear among the readers and attendees, reflecting small-town memory.
Farlen notes a baptism at Mt. Olive next Sunday with all invited. Local attendees include Jabez Myers and wife en route from Odon, and others visiting from Burns City, Plainville, and Ridge Farm. Several residents. travel mentions, and farm work like straw hauling to Burns City.
The notice lists locals visiting from Scotland Woot Bechtel and family from Indiana, John Sims and Nancy Sims of the Marsh, visits to Plataville, Indianapolis sport events, a picnic at Asdell woods near the school, and several Sunday church attendances including Homer Sanders Herman Heshelman Lee Kelly Delpha Williams and others.
EPSOM and Plainville community notes report visits and movements including Mrs Geo Tormey and son Charles to Washington and Ezra Kinnaman's sale west of Cornettsville. Attendees include Dr Ira Bowman, Miss Brooks, and a delegation from Scotland to Mineral Sunday school picnic. Harvest Home events scheduled in Plainville.
Wilmer Hubbard of Bedford visited relatives here. Isaac Wagoner and family spent Sunday with Greene county relatives. Albert Kinnaman and family visited Mrs. Elizabeth tough. G. W. Tomey and wife and Mrs. Lucinda Bair were guests of D. W. Hodges and wife. Clarence McCall and family visited Theodore McCall and family. Minnie Brown of Elnora was sent to Evansville insane hospital by Sheriff Harmon. Clarence Kirk and family from Illinois visited neighbors here. James Moren and wife of Cornetsville visited D. W. Hodges. Mr and Mrs Arthur Phipps of near Elnora spent Sunday with E. Bailey and family. Mrs J B Phipps of Farlen visited here Tuesday. Miss Corda Metheny and Grace Myers finished school at Terre Haute and returned home. Glen Hindman returned from Terre Haute after attending school.
Thursday 7 43 choir practice. Friday 7 45 Bible School. Sunday 9 30 preaching and worship morning and evening by pastor.
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