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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1906
Page
2
Advertising rates are set for three months and two months with conditions on applications and office submission. Condolence resolutions carry the same rate as ads. Discounts apply to entertainments and lodge fundraisers. Governor Hanly visited Washington Monday night en route to Shoals to inspect a proposed epileptic village site.
Mrs. John Cummings hosts a banquet at the Grand Hotel for the Lyons High School and Odon High School girls basketball teams tonight. Two courses will be served: sandwiches coffee and cocoa first course. ice cream and cake second course.
Mr Charles A Clinton and Miss Aurelia Grables were married at the bride’s parents home five miles south of here, Sunday morning, with Rev Ivan Stalcup officiating. The couple, prominent in Van Buren township, plan to reside there.
Thomas Nicholas a Blacksmith of Coalmont Greene County became violently insane at Elnora on Monday while en route to Evansville. He has suffered two years of insane spells and was being taken to Evansville Hospital by his brother and officers.
An advertising notice seeks agents for Hitchcock Publishing Co to sell the enlarged edition of Every Man His Own Lawyer. It notes past sales, promises profit, and offers sample copy postpaid and retail prices with subscription option. The message lists Benjamin W. Hitchcock as company president and gives address 49 Sth Ave New York.
Social events mark the aid society anniversary with Mrs A Lane hosting and about fifty attending. Locals and visitors including Jacob Iler Rochester W E B Clark Oaktown Harry Owens Bedford and others were present or visiting. Several residents traveled to Cincinnati Logansport Washington Terre Haute and Bloomington on various affairs and business. A basketball double header at Garten's Hall features Lyons Odon and Odeon teams with enthusiastic local attendance.
Sunday School at 9 30 morning sermon and evening services by HB A Turney. Morning service at 10 30 titled Go Right on Working. Evening service at 7 titled Who are the Blessed. Special music featured at each service.
A historic note describes the lord chancellor's purse bearer who carries a silken satchel adorned with royal arms. The satchel, though believed to hold the great seal, never contains it and serves as a ceremonial. The piece laments the venerable parliamentary fiction surrounding this role.
A former courtship feud between two young people escalates from vanity and teasing to snubbing and covert games. After a quarrel sparked by a planned match, Mary Lockwood’s sharp wit and a botched kiss under mistletoe fuel lasting enmity.
A San Francisco article describes the giant Hawaiian volcano Mauna Lea with two craters led by Kitauea as the world’s largest active crater. The mountain stands about 34 100 feet high and Kilaver lies to its eastern side above sea level. The crater is a boiling lake fed by subterranean fires and constantly tosses foam and lava.
A Wiss meeting at the H O U F hall discussed erecting a creamery in Odon. Mr. Rabbitt spoke on dairy value noting at least fifty five shares are needed and each person may hold only one share. Shares will be offered at a fixed price to insure success.
The Be Bur Lodge drew a list of applicants this week including Robert Watson Geo Harman A M Kck Jare Caman Hattie Keck Thea Winklepleck Robert Richardson A T Mayfield Marga e Wi &'e.'cex Jonas Winklepleck.
J. B. Metcalfe argues in Atlantic that the American theater could influence national character and popular education, elevating taste in arts and literature rather than being treated as mere amusement. He urges giving theater a larger, more serious role in culture.
Announcement from the special clearing-board committee in charge of John R Walsh's railroads says the Chicago Southern and Southern Indiana lines will be sold within days. Bids from five interests have been reviewed as rivals seek Indiana routes for advantageous connections and equipment. Walsh retires from railroads as Michigan lines may be sold too.
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