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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1904
Page
3
A small ad touts hosiery as a quality purchase and promotes Way 1 LW as a top children’s wear option. It highlights a dollar fifty staple and fancy groceries, peaches at 8 cents per can, and varied dry goods.
Washington canning company stockholders met with farmers at the courthouse to fix tomato prices for next summer. They agreed on 2245 cents per bushel or 759 per ton for Stone variety, with the entire plant output already sold. Also promote bargains in Queensware at the Racket store.
Local items include updates on Yate canning factory goals and residents traveling to Indianapolis and Jasonville. Socials feature a shirt waist social at the opera house and visits from Bennetts, Laughlins, and Stalcups. Measles and grip spread. sleet and Fresno water damaged paths as residents travel between towns.
The Odon area considers locating a canning factory amid strong farmer support. The venture promises significant profits for farmers growing tomatoes and vegetables, with examples like $195 from four acres, and requires local subscriptions led by Mr. Covall through the Odos Commercial Club.
The New York Sun notes that many French con artists imitate American crooks. It cites a westward trick where a thief impersonates an indignant husband to rob a woman, then escapes before she recovers. A classic petty scam in New York involved a boy swinging a pitcher while a man bets on its breakage to trap victims.
The article notes Pope Leo XII as an inveterate snuff taker and describes past papal bans on tobacco by Urban VII and Innocent X. It cites Benedict XIII lifting the 1650 tobacco brief and observes that later popes, including Pius IX, favored tobacco use, with the Vatican cited as a setting for private smoking.
The Elnora High School Commencement will be held March 12 with Dr Elmer B Bryan of Indiana University delivering the address. Supt Garten arranged the event, noting Bryan is a well known county lecturer and this marks four years of work for the school.
Monday morning S. R. Callahan's blacksmith shop roof caught fire but was discovered early with little damage. Monday night a train fire spread to dry grass along the Sims farm west of town. Bob Mason had baled hay. alarm sounded to stop the blaze. More than an acre burned before control.
The Oden businessmen organized a Commercial Club at Crooke and Forsythe to promote town interests and attract factories. Officers elected include President W C Garten and Secretary E E Forsythe. The group plans to raise stock through subscriptions with Mr Covall of the Mlastings Industries Co promoting a canning factory.
Raglesville hosts instructors F. M. McConnell and T. Mayfield from Odon for an Institute on Saturday. Burial services held for Peter Bradley of Southers Van Busen and a child of Mr. and Mrs. Lundeno at local churches. Teachers held an institute at Rawlesville with praise for opening exercises. several residents visited relatives and neighbors over the weekend.
An old advertisement urges customers to hurry for limited numbers of guid watches and free items. It touts reduced prices on sheet music and introduces new stationery offerings while offering watch repairs and clogs.
Katherine Neeramer daughter of Hugh and Mrs Neeramer died Sunday. Funeral by Rev John Mredeo at residence Tuesday morning. Burial at Walnut Hill. Wealey Critchlow of this part of the county died Wednesday morning at his residence south of town aged 70 years 10 months 12 days. He leaves wife and several children. Funeral at ten this morning at Ragleatile.
Paris M Laughlin administrator will offer for sale at public auction the personal property of the late U C Laughlin at his farm east of Odon Indiana before March 11 1904. Items include wheat drill wagon corn drill harness steel plow mule cows sowing tools and more with cash terms for under 8 credit for larger sums due in 9 months with notes bearing 6 percent interest.
The United States Mail schedule shows arrival and departure times for the Pest Office at this place. It lists receiving and dispatching general mail and locked pouches at several hours including 3205am and 6pm. Money order window closes at 6 pm.
Samuel Buzan, an elderly veteran, was found unconscious and nearly frozen Tuesday near the B I depot in Plainville. He suffered a head wound and remained unconscious until late Wednesday, with no knowledge of how he was hurt.
The firm Ward Bros. & Co. has sold their farm and requests that creditors call and settle claims. We thank friends and neighbors for sympathy during sickness and burial of our darling Katharine. Travel by Pullman Sleeping Cars to California via the Transmountain Route leaves St. Louis at 8 30 A M daily for Los Angeles with tourist cars to Los Angeles and San Francisco Wednesdays and Thursdays. For information contact G A A Deane Jr, Trav Passgr Agt, 600 Sentinel Bldg Indianapolis Ind.
A New York Sun note places a bear at Sanders Mill near Mind Pierre who visits the district school daily. The bear accepts crumbs and lunch, then returns to the woods, as pupils and teacher feed him from the door. Leipzig city council requires city employees to reside within limits to boost growth and tax income.
Crows swarm breaches on slate roofs in Victoria British Columbia. They fly over the roofs and drop shells and meat from clams, breaking slate when shells strike.
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