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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1901
Page
3
A dense patchwork of local items reports illness and deaths, visits, and business notes. Names include Samuel Martell, John Hubbard, Bert Nerton, Mary Dobbs, and many residents from Burns City, Linton, and Washington. The column mentions epidemics in Oolitic, revival at Pleasant Hill, court sessions, and shop ads at Danners and Grand Hotel.
Editor Journal in Oden Indiana notes a renewed limited offer to married ladies to receive a free elegant silver plated sugar shell post paid. The shells sell in stores for about forty to seventy cents and jewelers price them at fifty to seventy cents. Request must include cut out form and stamps to cover mailing costs from Quaker Waller Mfg. Co. Chicago.
Carl Smiley the live son of Dr. R M Smiley of Washington was accidentally shot Saturday by a neighbor y boy with a flobert rifle in the yard. The bullet hit Carl in the forehead and lodged near the right side. He is slowly improving after days of concern and is expected to recover. He is a grandson of Mr and Mrs Abner Smiley of this place.
President Daniel Gantz and Dierkelm signed bonds on Tuesday and sent funds to the clerk to satisfy the judgment and costs. Gantz and relatives traveled to Washington last night with the money to cover the damages and a second suit.
A local court ruling requires the Smothers Creek Ditch to be bolted and shut. The decision cites a specific code violation and assigns penalties for noncompliance.
A veteran writes that as a soldier in Mexico in 1945 he contracted Mexican diarrhea, which prevents pension increases. He endorses a quick, pleasant cure called Renedy available for sale in Webster.
Notice is thereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Executor of the estate of Mary A Ebebbs, deceased, late of Daviess County Indiana. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. Albert A Clark, Executor. Wadsworth Willians, Attys.
Beef hides and horse hides command market prices while by products such as fors green and dry bones old rubber tip tail copper and brass fetch the highest bids. prices vary by quality and demand across buyers and regions.
A Cleveland woman renovates her home and rejects old masters hung by an artist. She orders the classics dumped into the attic while planning new decor and carpets. The artist calls them old chestnuts but obeys the demand.
The Philadelphia Record explains why locomotives are rented, noting that few railroads rent engines and that contractors often hire cast off engines castoffs crews. It describes payment plans resembling installment purchases and the public-facing marking of contractor-owned locomotives.
The Venice state archives reportedly hold the oldest visiting card on record. Giacomo Contarini of Padua sent the card to a Venetian friend noting German students left similar cards with name and origin when visiting houses. The card bears a coat of arms with the motto Espoir me contort and the inscription Joannes Westerbo Westphalung scribed at Padua March 4 1560.
A juror-like tale asks a talesman his understanding of alibi with a blunt definition. The piece also traces blues origin to indigo workers or the German blau. A quip from Dr Quick follows a dispute with an undertaker, and a note on the saying by hook and by crook links to a medieval forest custom.
Advertisement offers money to loan on improved farm land at 5 to 8 percent. Contact Harry H Crooke for details and to arrange funding.
Bert Fulkesson sat at the boun ty seat Monday while Dan Hayes and his mother visited from Odon. One of Anderson Overton's children has fever. Lower Banks family moved to the Tunnel this week. Cas Woodruff of Elnora passed through town Tuesday. A M Clark and Dave Wadsworth were in Washington on business. Ottis and Don Miller came from Orleans to attend their aunt Mrs Hobbs funeral. Albert Smith and family left for Lin ton after visiting locally. Ora Williams fractured her left forearm in a ice fall last week. Minnie Fulkerson and Hutchel Casey attended Mrs Mary Hobbs funeral from Washington Saturday. Dyal Wadsworth, son of Dave Wadsworth, broke the large bone of his right arm. Dr Elrod set it. Mr and Mrs C M Hobbs and son Fred of Bridgeport and Mr W L Hobbs of Indianapolis returned Monday from the Hobbs funeral. Green Chestnut, three miles west, died Saturday night of typhoid fever and was buried Sunday at four. Rev Joseph Adams conducted funeral services. Chestnut leaves a wife and three children. siblings include Willian, Iafe Chestnut, Mrs William Fisher, Mrs Jane Spurgeon, Susie and Hattie Chestnut.
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