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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
4
A playful editorial notes Teddy Bear pledging to stay in town this year. It vows to quit sending dollars to distant cities, to avoid pipe dreams, and to favor stores that advertise in the home paper. Brer Rabbit quips that last pledge is the goods.
A comic vignette on aging and time featuring a shop that sells memories and futures. Characters include the Timekeeper, Death, and Grandpa, as they barter life moments, birthdays, and promises, ending with a burst of cadence urging all toward a new year.
Maxwell's Talisman quotes Richard Hamilton Byrd on how mail order houses erode village and town shops. It warns that large Chicago catalogs pull cash from local merchants, cites a $5 000 000 capital mail order firm aiming for $10 000 000, and urges organization and education to protect hometown businesses.
Trustee Wm Sims announces weekly Friday availability at his office and about town to conduct township business. The notice directs all persons with matters before the trustee to attend as needed and complete pending affairs.
The Country Club of Ware County in Waycross Ga organizes a tree planting movement from Good Roads Magazine. Members pledge to plant 210 trees to root this winter and transplant along the nearest public road next fall. Judge Warren Lott chairs the county commission and pledges county planting with a yearly replanting crew. John YW Greer promotes the effort.
Brookline Massachusetts, a village of twenty thousand, is cited as a notable example of what may be accomplished in eight improvements. The same people lead public affairs until death prompts change. Direct legislation and the referendum have functioned well, with officials often serving thirty to fifty years, including a city clerk who held the post for fifty years.
In a rustic exchange, St Jenkins muses on why Debow and Brown do not paint their shop. Silas then mails an advertising order to the store, hinting the lack of pride behind the panel score referenced by T Sapp.
J T Osborn traveled to Odon Friday. Flossie Winklepleck of Odon visited Sunday. Miss Dale Winklepleck of Elnora spent Sunday here. Golden Summerville called on M L Toon and wife at Boggs Creek. James Edmandson and wife of Linton visiting relatives. Ray Stalcup of Worthington stayed with C O Williams Sunday. Songram Williams visited Odon late week. J K Storms of the Southern Indiana railroad visiting his family. Scott Alford and Foe Callahan of Odon helped initiate M W A candidates Friday night. H Gore of Terre Haute was in town Friday. Ex-Surveyor Hitchcock of Brown township passed through en route from Elnora. Hower Sargent and wife of Old Salem visited Sunday for meetings at the M B church.
Effective February 24 1907 all trains run daily from Odon Seymour Bedford Elnora Beehunter Linton Jasonville Terre Haute and back. Northbound departures include 6 40 am 12 30 pm and 5 35 pm from Odon with corresponding arrivals at Terre Haute. Southbound schedules list 7 00 am 11 15 am and 5 46 pm from Terre Haute to Seymour. For full tables contact local agent or H P Radley Grand Central Station Chicago Illinois.
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