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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1907
Page
2
The te rms for six months and three months subscription rates are listed with payments in advance. Cooperative and Interstate Telephone offices and residences are noted. Advertising rates are available on application and apply to ARDS of thanks and condolences. Discounts apply to entertainments and suppers by churches or lodges aimed at raising funds.
Dean J M Inman notes readers who object to an article may complain loudly yet fail to consider wider audience needs. He contrasts patient editors with readers who make grand stands and demand changes without weighing overall effects.
A suite of brief items from Raglesville reports visits by A W Sturkey and family and others, a sick woman improving at the Kelsey home, travel to Burns City, and social notes. A timber accident injures C Flinn but no bones broken, several residents attend a Plainville initiation banquet, and Eaglesville Camp installs new officers with Wadsworth and Pate among the named offices.
G D Abraham visited Shoals while W L Stoy went to Loogootee and E T Laughlin to Washington. George Singer of Sandborn and K E Forsythe of Washington were sighted locally. Several residents traveled for business and visits including Dr J C Mitchell in Elnora and Mrs Stella Corning in Burns City. A Pleasant Hill meeting closed. basketball games in Washington and local towns featured players Donald Eis and Carl McWilliams. Church services at Christian Church led by H A Turvey with sermons and music.
Ben Hur Lodge elected officers Friday night including Chief Daniel Gantz Judge Mrs W H Hueston Yeacher Mrs Ira Correll Seriba G W Correll K of T D W Hayes Chaplin H O Marshall Custle Oscar Bennett J G Hiram Sims G Dean M Inman The officers will be installed tonight.
Burns City reports show C M Lemon of Bedford visiting, Seymour Marshall moving to Shoals, and A D Toon of the county farm visiting relatives. A telephone meeting approved two new trunk lines to Loogoochee and Mountain Springs. I C C F Lodge No 802 elected officers for the term led by N G Edwin Keck and other defined posts, with Jonas Winklepleck and John Nichols among the line officers.
George Todd of Elnora bought stock here last week. Walter Eaton and sister Miss Hster visited Washington Saturday. John Baker of Washington spent Sunday with S. P. Eagle and family. James Sparks spent Sunday at Plainville. Raymond Cornett of Bicknell visited here. John Keith of Epsom passed through town Sunday. Walter Williams of Washington visited James Sparks and family Sunday. A number from here attended the funeral of Mrs. John Clark at Plainville.
Miss Etta Pope of Elnora spent Sunday with Miss Hazel McGee. Mrs. D. H. Courtney visited relatives at Washington Friday. Everett Sears of near Ogdon passed through Sunday. Wesley Myers of Bagleaville visited friends here. Daniel Courtney was at Plainville Saturday. Thomas Taylor and wife of Elnora were through here Saturday. Rev. Buchanan of Odon Ebb Ellis G Taylor and John Schwartz of Elnora passed through Sunday en route to Plainville.
The boys basketball team faces Bedford tonight while the girls travel to Tyons Saturday. Miss Grace Ketchem and Orville Morrison teach Roman History to sophomores. Prof McCarter challenges students on S P Q R meaning at the roman eagle. Claud Anderson starts night work as operator with the 8S I. Abe Martin Literary Society plans January 18 program featuring songs solos recitations dialogues and various musical pieces.
Captain Z V Garten writes from Bradenton Florida dated January 12 1907 describing travel hardships from Montgomery to Tampa to Bradenton. He details a new five room house a windmill pump and bathe facilities plus meals with Al and Lydia Diefendorf. Garten notes warm 70 degree weather an orchard visit and plans for a gulf boating trip while praising locals and the lively up to date town. He ends with a humorous remark about a fly spanker.
Mrs Noah Fisher died at her home about two miles northeast of here yesterday morning from heart trouble. She was seven years old and leaves a husband and three children. Funeral services will be held at the house this afternoon at 1:00 by Rev Ed Taylor. Interment will be in Walnut Hill cemetery.
Preaching at the U B church next Sunday evening at 7 00. Other services as usual. Quarterly meeting scheduled for Saturday and Sunday January 26 and 27.
Mrs Emery Wade died at her home near here from pneumonia fever aged about forty. She leaves a husband and six children. Funeral services are set for ten thirty this morning in Raglesville with burial in Raglesville cemetery.
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George Faith of Washington and ER O Jones from Washington spent time here on business and wintering. Mitchell Sims, Harry Fyffe, Joseph Tomey, Lou Barber, James Meade, Homer Oswan, Milindia Feagans, Rufus Fisher, Andrew Gress, and Charles Chandler were seen visiting or passing through the area this week, with several residents returning home or relocating.
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