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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
2
A mix of rate notices for telephone and advertising services, editorials on socialism, and highlights from The Journal. Includes plan to shift to a pictorial magazine, upcoming serial In the Shadow of Shame, and notes on a canal article. Ledgerwood and Hunter wedding report closes with Waterford notices.
Mel Cooper worked Tuesday. J. B. McCarter was at Waal Wednesday. Richard Williams of Plainville visiting friends. F. B. Garrett of Burns City in town Sunday. Claud Adkins of Sandboro at Odon Sunday night. Owen Skoup of Indianapolis visiting his parents here. Stanley B. Johnson and wife from Elnora drove up. E. B. Cooper and son Clarence visited at Coalmont Sunday. BA Pershing of Bisora here Saturday night. Miss Medge Hueston visited friends at Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Williams, August 16, a son. Walter Stuckey of Eaglesville in town Wednesday. Miss Ada Osman of Epcombe visiting Miss Effie Shively. Miss Edith Denny of Scotland visiting Miss Bessie Daugherty. Walter Kinneman of Wheatland here visiting his mother. Mr. and Mrs. M. Wilson and children of Linton are Odon visitors. Applejack Wright, an old Odonite, seen in our midst again. Ray Browning and family of Washeven visiting in Odon this week. Ed Feller and wife of Bedford visited at Jas. Callahan's Saturday.
Negotiations aim at consolidating Walsh interests with the Illinois Iowa and Minnesota railroad into a belt line around Chicago to Milwaukee, not an outright sale. John B. Walsh to be retained. Chicago terminal ties and steel mill connections at Gary cited. Confirmation from W F McSwinney of the I I M and involvement of John N Faithorn.
A local advertisement promotes Fuller and Johnson lice with a guarantee of quality and operation. Bet W. T. Alexander is listed in connection with the sale.
On and after August 1 1906 W R Neeriemer of Odon Indiana will make and boil cider on Wednesdays and Thursdays each week the notice states.
We express sincere thanks to friends and neighbors who helped save our household goods from Sunday’s fire. George Correll and family.
Mac Andis and wife visited James Wallis Sunday. Tom Pruitt and Oscar Hall passed through en route to Newberry Monday. Tom Phipps and Everett Keck returned home from Bloomington where they plastered. Douglas Marshall and family visited C S Plummer Sunday. Alex Walls made a business trip to Oodo Monday. Martin Stout hauling coal this week. Miss Maud Cunningham returned from Indianapolis last week. Dan Myers and family visited his parents Sunday. Several from here will attend the Old Settlers. Wm Keck and wife of near Bramble visited Milton Taylor Saturday and Sunday.
Master George Woodruff and sisters Maud and Blanche visited southeast of town with M. O. Pate and family. Richard Myers and family moved to Connersville for work while Starlin Woodruff and wife visited near St. Marys. Sherman Stuckey returns from Terre Haute for vacation. Gladys Pate and Miss Anise Pate visit M. O. Pate. Wadsworth and Faith finish threshing. A daughter born to George Resler and wife east of town. No new addition planned for Eaglesville school. J C Critchlow and son travel to Odon. Wun Stuckey visits from Collinsville to A W Stuckey family. M. O. Pate seeks county assessor seat. attends Montgomery picnic.
Plainville reports show several residents buying gas engines and melon makers selling from 4 to 12 acres with $180 to $390 in sales and a large weekly melon shipment. W. P. Booker and son rent a Paxton area farm, and local social visits include Miss L Babbin at Valparaiso and Mrs. John Goss visiting Heltonville.
Yesterday marked day one of the twenty first annual Old Settlers Meeting at this place. A small crowd attended due to rain, but larger crowds are expected on the second and third days with addresses planned by Congressman J. Chaney, Hon. Cyrus E. B. Davis, Judge H. Q. Houghton and other prominent figures.
The Terre Haute Trotting and Fair Association announces Southern Indiana Railway will sell tickets from Odon to Terre Haute and return on Sept 17 to 23 at one and one third fare for the round trip. Return limit day after sale.
P A Raber of Brooklyn Indiana visits his son in law John Vickery. Wm Carpenter of Green county, a former resident, comes to see landlady Mrs Jape Burch on business. Lon Boater loses a pocketbook with 845 in cash and 265 in checks, not yet found. Indianapolis State Fair travel deal offers one way plus 25 cents to Oden and back, Sept 8 to 14, 1908.
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