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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
1
Advice for sending gifts by mail urges including label name and address, avoid foreign wrappings, skip extra string or tissue outside, have packages wrapped by a clerk, mail early for best service, consider registration for valuable items, and use postal specials. Encourages gifting to service members and notes occasional delays.
A long discourse argues a shared standard of morality for men and women, discouraging double standards, urging parental duty to teach obedience and virtue, and warning that poor home training leads to social ills. It cites Ptahhotep, questions wives’ and husbands’ ideals, and calls for better domestic education and reading over frivolous pursuits.
An old newspaper notice invites readers to visit Keck the Jeweler and Optician for optical department services. It promises skilled treatment of eye defects and durable relief through regular glasses, claiming immediate comfort and surprising results.
Michael Doyle of near St Mary's loses four ten dollar bills from a wagon load of hogs sold in town. Tim Jones finds the money and Jack Guthrie locates the watch. both items are returned to Doyle shortly after the loss.
Dr A B Knapp and family plan departure for Texas on December 24 to spend three or four months. The health of Dr Knapp is reported as not robust and his wife joins him in hopes of improvement.
The new state bank in Plainville completes its first story as construction continues. City officials note progress on the project while workers prepare for further vertical work and eventual opening.
Mrs. Mary Shaffer died at her daughter’s home north of town after a long illness. Born July 8 1992 in Uniontown Pennsylvania she moved to Ohio then Indiana. She married Andrew Shaffer January 6 1850 and had nine children. Funeral at Good Hope church conducted by Rev C C Lowther with burial at Walout Hill Cemetery.
Rufus Murphy a local farmer south of Princeton displays unusually large turnips for his home market. The largest weighs five pounds followed by four and a half pounds as the second largest. Six of the big roots filled a half bushel. Murphy credits old fertilized ground for the crop.
At a meeting in Indianapolis the Ancient Order of Hibernians elected Rev. Father F. J. Stanton of St Marys parish Daviess county as state chaplain to succeed the late Father Quinlin of Marion.
Forsythe of Washington sold his Madison township farm of eighty acres to Walter Morrison. Morrison acquired a forty seven acre Morrison farm in Elmore township for seventy five dollars per acre as part of the same deal.
A present for wife husband or parents is often a pair of spectacles or eyeglasses. When glasses are needed you cannot find a more suitable gift. Even if old glasses are good a new gold frame fills the bill. We can supply you with a pairs then them.
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