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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1923
Page
6
Local dispatch covers Odon and Montgomery high school games. Odon boys win on a short schedule while girls show progress against Montgomery. A boys forfeit occurs after Montgomery players walk off, leaving Odon with the win by forfeit. The page also notes a school assembly with humorous student skits.
A beekeeper explains the process of making strained honey using supers with long frames, extracting honey in a machine, and filtering through cloth to remove wax. The method saves bees from building new comb, boosts yield, and allows lower prices. some comb honey remains unsold.
Wm Bair a beekeeper asks if rats talk to each other and tests five cakes of Rat Susp to bait rats around a store. He claims to have killed rats daily for two solid weeks with Rat Susp and notes sewer access and net sizes. Sold and guaranteed by druggists and dealers everywhere.
United States Department of Agriculture advises three periods for chinch bug control. November December burning or plowing to destroy hibernating sites, May June and fall spraying in wheat fields with nicotine sulfate and trap strips, plus September deep plowing of corn stubble. Cooperation among neighbors is essential to prevent reinvasion.
Capons will grow fifty percent more than cockerels in the same period and yield finer flavored meat. Fattening is easier, confinement is better endured, and the birds are more docile, all contributing to lower cost and higher sale price.
The Daviess County Farm Bureau directors at their quarterly Washington meeting voted seven to three against the proposed county unit school bill. Resolutions were sent to the legislative committee in Indianapolis for action.
Washington physicians report hundreds with influenza but pneumonia is not prevalent this season. The illness is not fatal if ordinary care is used, and officials caution against alarm despite the spread.
In the county tax rolls twelve for the petit jury, making seventy two freeholders subject to jury service. The law requires twice this number in the box for drawing. Therefore 144 taxpayers are listed to draw from and their names placed in the box.
Emma L. Andis has qualified as administratrix of the estate of Charles Wildridge, deceased. The estate is expected to be solvent. Attorney for the estate is E. T. Laughlin. 1-19-31.
Buchanan trustee announces weekly Wednesday sessions at the E. T Laughlin building in Odon for township business and additional days at his home.
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