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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1897
Page
3
The legislature debates a new fee salary plan for officials. Auditors may gain a population based percentage, treasurers earn a share of delinquent taxes and total collections, and county figures for Daviess outline specific salaries and fees for clerk, treasurer, sheriff, recorder, and auditor with population adjustments.
A collection of small town items includes visits by Henry Robinson of Loogootee and EE Leigh of New York, trades and business at local stores, assignments and liabilities, school plans for Prof Satterfield, and various residents from nearby towns visiting relatives or conducting errands in town. Also notes on livestock, hay shipping, advertising in the JOURNAL, and a brief reflection on a bee’s honey yield.
Farlen Elys notes heavy snow in the mul with Bennie Sears of Odon visiting on Tuesday. Miss Josie McKean visits Odon to stay with Milo Smiley. Mt. Zion meeting continues with interest as Rev JL Weeks is called to preach. Rev J C Warriner returns from Broomington. Miss Sadie Smiley and Miss Clelia Smiley travel home with Zeta Stotts. Paris Keck moves with family to Burns City and plans to drive a peddling wagon next year. Elmer Pershing buys Burns City property and will run the poultry business there and in Linora.
Notice lists for sale or trade the Hat terbough Mercry-go-round in good condition. Seeks trade for a team. Contact Ja and Phillips.
A certified decree from the Daviess Circuit Court directs a public sale of real estate in Elnora at the court house door on a Saturday in March 1897 to satisfy a mortgage of 451 dollars and costs. The property description covers seven parcels in J A Crary's Addition with rents and profits reserved for up to seven years and the fee simple interest to be auctioned if funds cover the decree. The notice includes attorney Davis & Moffett and the sheriff John G. Leming.
A brief query ponders how a valentine appears and whether it mirrors the beloved. The speaker asks if the recipient is calm or angry, inviting a candid reply about emotions and impressions.
Williams and Dan ner offer bargains in drugs while Ben Vickers Johnson White and William Clark arranged a large trade recently.
An item list offering Castoria for savants and children and various household staples. Prices noted include washing tea, picks for tasters, flaked hominy, coffee, soap, sugar, and other items. The list ends with a reference to Dieffenort’s.
Testimony in the Arthur Jordan Poultry Company versus WL Lacy concluded after 2 pm with closing speeches from J J O Neall J W Ogdon A J Padget and W R Gardiner. Judge Herron instructed the jury and at 11:30 pm they began deliberations. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant at 8 pm on Wednesday and the Arthur Jordan Company must pay several hundred dollars in costs.
Mr Wa d I Smith of Frederickstown Missouri suffered chronic diarrhea for over thirty years. He tried many doctors with no permanent relief before reading an advertisement for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. After one dose the medicine helped and continued use cured him. For sale by W L Stoy.
An ad claims Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honeycomb blends medical agents to treat coughs colds and bronchial conditions. It asserts rapid relief and cures consumption in many patients, presenting dramatic results for consumptive cases.
Mrs. Will Pensinger of Washington reported the birth of a baby girl at Ace Cash Grocery Store on Monday night. The news note records a new arrival with no additional details on family or hospital.
Suffering with Grippe? Williams and Danner offer a cure for 25 cents. The ad promises quick relief and invites readers to visit their store for treatment.
A Worthington Times reader probes a paradox about a young girl who endures freezing conditions on a porch sweep yet rides fifteen miles in a sleigh with only the arm of another girl’s brother for warmth and never voices complaint.
A Kansas woman writes to the governor requesting a law to prohibit the manufacture sale and use of corsets arguing they harm the human race more than cigarettes and should be banned statewide.
The state senate last Monday passed a bill to extend the terms of current township trustees and assessors and to set the next election for successors in 1900. Reports from Pesak's Sling Me cite healthy islanders funding a physician’s stay with voluntary yearly contributions outside standard services.
A report notes Francis Sims sustained severe injuries after his horse bolted past a cow on the roadside. He was thrown and dragged with one foot in the stirrup, suffering multiple bruises and two broken ribs. He is reported to be recovering and doing well.
Henry A Zallars weds Emma Trowbridge. James A Frets tied to Roxa Westmoreland. Join T Bramble weds Anna J Cardien. John K Keifner and Wilda M Wauggoner join. Peer 2 Miller pairs with Magdalena K Wagler. Moses SHnkard to Sarah K Chestnut.
The Daviess Circuit Court saw several new filings this past week including Celia Dennen versus Martha Akester and Jno Slander. Larkin versus Jno Slyx. Spaulding and Siwean Smith against Sarah K Stalcup regarding Foreclosure. Parnias Ragsdale v Francis Baldwin et al Quiet Title. M J Carnahan et al v School Town of Elcorn and Ace City of Washington v Anna Harned et al Appeal. Assignment of M Airright and John Dasch as Assignee.
An advertisement asserts Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as the standard family remedy for colds coughs and lung diseases. It claims the product is not a palliative and is sold in large household bottles at higher cost because they cure more.
A teachers training session begins March 29 at this location and runs ten weeks. Tuition details are listed by instructors A M Stickls and D H Richards.
The lowest temperature on record occurred on December 30 1811 at Werchojansk Siberia. Trotesser Gorochon endured this extreme cold, with a reading far below zero.
Advertisement promotes Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey as a cough remedy for all ages. It claims the product helps you not cough and urges asking a druggist for it with a substitution warning.
In September Miss Madge Johnson of Sag Harbor swam three miles to Shelter Island aided by a rowing party. She faced a strong current near the direct line, reached the island, and then rowed back after fellow rowers grew exhausted.
An applicant embellished his pension statement by saying he "received my wound" while marching rapidly in front of the enemy, rather than admitting it occurred during a regiment retreat. The phrasing aimed to soften the awkward fact.
Advertises reduced rate tickets for North and South Short Line to visit Gulf Coast resorts in Mississippi Alabama and Florida. Tickets on sale daily through April 1897 with stopovers allowed south of the Ohio River and travel information available from railroad agents or W B Rowland at 215 N Fourth Street.
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