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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1901
Page
3
An advertisement urges parents to seek the best curative and palatable medicine for babies with coughs or colds. It promises a remedy that is easy for a child to take and emphasizes gentleness and effectiveness.
A bustling round of visits, business deals, and social notes spans Elnora and nearby towns. Farmers, merchants, and families like the Veiliatos, Abraham, and Keck households appear among travels to Washington, Burns City, and Eaglesville with church revival activity and library promotions filling the week.
Notice from B. D. Smiley warns all parties owing the basic account or note past due to call and settle by February 1 1901. It mentions the genuine Wilson Heat or see B D Smiley.
A bullet fired into Mrs. Harvey Smiley's home narrowly missed harm as she had left a room moments before. The shot pierced a front door and struck the chair she had sat in, lodging in the sofa back. bystanders reported seeing youths with a gun and believe it was an accidental discharge.
Reports describe nightly hen house raids with a big haul on Miss Mollie Sargent's coop. Ziba Webster found three hens missing on Thursday. a suspect near Todara, close to Odon, allegedly used corn as fish bait to lure birds. Authorities hope to catch and exile the culprits to the penitentiary.
Notice requests all persons owing the sender, Aaron Jolliff, on Look accounts to call and settle at once.
An OCR fragment notes acetylene being p suggested as good and in operation at a facility in Indiana. It mentions Ay es and Cue Udon, Itdiana and Odon Lisht & Power Co as associated names in the vague report.
An old advertising notice urges married ladies to request a free elegant silver plated sugar shell, with a payment of four stamps to cover mailing. Gullaker Valley Mfg Co and Chicago addresses are listed. The ad also promotes Chamberlains Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with testimony from a Mexican war veteran, sold by Z Webster.
Money to loan on improved farm land at 5 to 8 percent with Garry H. Crooke contact. Also promote Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for digestive discomfort with 25 cent price and free samples at Webster's drug store.
Local buyers advertise cash payments for beef hides furs bones old rubber tin foil copper brass and other recyclable materials at current market prices. Highest rates offered with prompt settlement and convenient pickup.
Hayden Osborn and Miss Lizzie Stuckey were wed Wednesday evening at the Stuckey home in Eaglesville. Rev. Joseph Adams officiated. The couple will establish a home on the groom’s farm near Barns City.
An officer of the American Bell Telephone company argues telephone numbers have real monetary value. He notes firms benefit from being tied to a known number, as customers associate a business with its line and may even relocate offices but keep the same number to preserve goodwill. He cites cases of addresses moving uptown while the old exchange prefix remains in use.
Mr. Bryan argues that a silver basin represents bimetallism, but a sound money advocate resists, insisting the analogy goes no further in a fiscal policy dispute.
Miss Ethel Hardy of Odon San dayed here. The Log church meeting closed Tuesday night. Jacob Summerville of Martin county was here Sunday. The teachers institute is at No. 10 today. Hyatt Poindexter of Barr township visited this week. Joseph Musser of Green county is visiting relatives here. J. A. Gaither and Perry Eubanks of Odon were here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hane visiting here left Sunday for Shoals Indiana. Mrs. James Herron and Mrs. William Kinneman of Bunkum were here Tuesday. Mt Olive meeting closed Sunday night with six accessions to the church. John and Roscoe Hubbard, Aaron and Jacob Bechtel and J. P. Taylor were at Washington Thursday.
The executor of Mary A Hobbs deceased will auction household furniture bedding sewing machine books and other articles at the decedents late residence in Eaglesville Daviess County Indiana on February 9 1901 starting at 10 am Terms under five dollars cash over five dollars six month credit with a note and security 6 percent interest executor Albert M Clark with attorneys Wadsworth and Williams
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