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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1903
Page
3
LOG AL NEWS notes Frank Jackson from Burns City, Geo Gardley and Miss Alice Barry visiting Bedford and Blankeship residents, and many locals returning home after visits. Several swings through Chicago, Washington, Lawrence County, and Oakland City fairs are recorded alongside transfers and travel statements among residents and families.
Miss Louis Courtney of Indianapolis visits her parents in town. E T Laughlin went to Washington. Eld M Love conducts Shiloh services. Fletch Webster returns to Chicago. Mrs Clara Hatfield and Miss Mabel Abraham back to Terre Haute. Wm Hindman returns to Elcora after visiting his brother. Ted Cooper relocates to Bedford. J A L Church to occupy Cooper’s former house. Liz Bennett and BE E Haistings return to Washington. Carrie Shantz returns from Lyons after visiting Miss Mattie Caughey. Prof J E Garten reappointed principal of Elnora schools. Reason Bair delivers three apples weighing 3 pounds to office. Miss Mary Harman home from Williams Bay WI after YWCA convention. Mrs Martha Myers and John Hitchcock with Bennett Laughlie rate agents. Ed and Wm Eaton visit from near Cornetsville. They consult D C Young. King's Herald Mite Box opening at M E Church set for Sunday evening August 30. program includes songs and devotion and missionary topics.
The eighteenth annual Old Settlers gathering drew 6000 to 7000 to the grounds with speeches by J D Laughlin H Q Houghton and Alfred Beasley and Ezra Mattingly. Trap shooting records show Lane and Keddy high gun with Lane winning after a shoot-off. Prizes awarded include Minnie Carr for prettiest girl and Mrs Geo Frets for lamp, plus many age and achievement honors. Total receipts were 157.95 with expenditures 147.95 leaving 10 in the treasury.
School opens Monday September 7 under Superintendent Coonel. The course of study at the high school mostly remains the same with a few text changes. Milnes algebra texts appear for the final year and second year retains Milne High School Algebra. See revisions in history and science books for various grades and years.
The Methodist conference opens September 9 in Indianapolis while the United Brethren conference begins the same day in Marengo. Rev. John Breden attends his fiftieth first conference since his first in 185%. A newborn daughter was born to Mr and Mrs John Hubbard on Wednesday.
H J Williams and Grover Pate were in Odon Monday. Miss Louie Singleton is ill. A young party rode buggies from Odon Sunday night. Residents attended OUL meetings in Odon last week. Walter Stuckey returned from Washington Thursday. Von Karr of Loogootee visited last week. Dick Holland and Verschel Armstrong were there Sunday night. H H Stuf came home from Ames County Wednesday. Hubert Myera returned from the Capital City Friday and will attend school here this winter. Oscar Myers visited relatives in Indianapolis and returned Sunday.Miss Leta Karr of Loogootee visited last week. Miss Rebecca Westfall returned to Lincoln Sunday after a visit. Sarah Overtoo fell from a buggy injuring her arm between elbow and shoulder.
Forest E. Smith and Nina Arford were wed at the bride’s parents home near town with Rev A B Arford officiating. The groom is a Clark county teacher and the bride a Westfield College student. They plan to settle in Hutton Illinois after a reception. About sixty relatives attended and gave gifts.
Local updates show numerous visits and social ties from Bedford to Van Buren to Eloore with many families listed. Mutar Telephone system support noted and a tire shop planned locally. George W Woodruff, noted Frankfort resident, dies after long sleep deprivation and medical intrigue.
A young woman in Indianapolis delivered a stillborn girl and hid the body in a valise. The infant was discovered at city hospital, prompting Coroner Tutewiler to consider charges against the rural father for conspiracy to commit a felony. Detained letters suggest a Washington state origin for the mother.
A Century magazine excerpt argues that wealth in public life tempts masterful men and can corrupt the senate. It notes many senators owe their seats to wealth, threatens the balance among branches, and warns this influence harms the body politic.
Atlantic notes a 1797 built frigate the Constitution was a home made vessel. Paul Revere supplied copper bolts spikes and malleable copper drawn by a process then used. Ephraim Thayer made gun carriages at his South End shop. Eails were forged in the Granary building near Park and Tremont. Boston boasted 14 rope-walks and a sailcloth factory at Tremont and Boylston Streets with a government bounty supporting production reaching around 80 000 to 90 000 yards annually.
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