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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1895
Page
3
Residents report visits from Mire Nellie Bennett and others while merchants promote bargains at Danner & Toelle and Smiley Hayes & Co. Local events include a band at the Southern celebration and a church dedication near What River circuit. Edge toward commerce, healthcare ads, and community updates in this week’s notices.
Trustee Sim of Begard township War the city Tuesday morning Mrs A K Lane visits Bedford friends Danner & Turtle new clothing Jas Cadter Fugate Mo visits old friends Fred Hayes Loogootee visits mother Curt Myers Cornettsville farmer in city Ola and Claudie Danner return from Washington L N Dunlap renews Journal subscription John Boch family visits Medora J. M Facey Bloominton and Jas Wakefield Miles O Neal Washington visit Florenc Pownas from Madison township in city Miss Dean Hindman Burns City attends ice cream supper Master Roy Crooke visits Bedford Fourth Many social notices and business items plus land and life policy ads and a quarterly Meeting outline
Britain of New Castle visits old friends here for a few days. Rev. Scott marries William G Whitney and Mary Fretz at the bride’s Race street home last Saturday. A Journal reporter found Indian Springs Hotel improved under Mr Maxwell and Ludian Springs offers royal treatment. Near Clare Indiana a man believed lost to quicksand returns home after neighbors clean out a well.
In Odon Indiana July 1885 a card extols Mr Gaither as a courteous dealer with a large stock of furniture and undertaker goods. It claims prices are about half what they were in town and offers rapid burial services with a fine hearse and guaranteed satisfaction.
Cash Gerner items and visits from Will Roberts and family mark a quiet Sunday. Farmers fight binch bog pest with varied plans as James A. Fisher returns to Terre Haute for study. Laura Fisher and James G. Taylor visit Washington after a weekend in the area. Laughlin Sustica platform lumber arrives. Me Dl ive hosts a festival July 18 to aid house repairs. Postmaster Briner chases a missed train race at Farlen, losing the mail pouch as Cash Corner awaits the next day’s mail.
Will Boyd enjoyed an ice cream supper as several people attended the dedication of the new church by the Marsh last Sunday.
In area reports, Chas, with Fred Boyd and Will Shaf fer and Birs, Rete Baird have returned from Illinois. Wheat in this vicinity is turning out well according to the amount of stray. Code Coleman.
Montgomery will host a baseball game today with admission set at 10 cents. Reports from the Fourth note the Odon Blues lost at Montgomery 8 to 11. Loogootee Black Diamonds beat a Cincinnati team 11 to 6 on their grounds. Montgomery defeated the Ghouls 41 to 3 at Loos Govtee on the Fourth. Oden Blues fell at Sanborn 16 to 28 against a combined Sanborn Vincennes Dugger and Martinsville effort amid a one sided umpire.
A box of chinch bugs arrived by express for W. H. Frickie and was sent to Topeka Kansas to catch the cholera. They will be released locally to study the bugs and the experiment will be observed with interest.
A Gotham sportsman recalls camping by Little Bear pond in October. Partridges hung on a peg vanished as a clever weasel crept in. The hunter fired a gun once, scattering shot and peppering the peg area, but the weasel escaped, prompting more visits during the stay.
Dr. Jane Elizabeth Robbins argues in the Forum that modern charity often enables poverty rather than alleviating it. She contends rich donors avoid real reform by giving only money while ignoring structural harms, urging the rich to give themselves and confront the causes of suffering.
The Cincinnati Enquirer argues against inflated prices for new household items such as a $1.30 fancy utensil and a $20 half gallon filter. It asserts that buyers judge first costs, wholesale margins, and retailer profits, and will shun items priced beyond merit despite patent claims.
Time table notices show train numbers 72 74 76 and 71 72 73 74 with daily or Sunday only service. Specific connections listed at Elnora Bedford Seymour and Odon Indiana. Agents A L Jay and H R Gitlewold provide further information.
An excerpt discusses Tharien Tiberius as a man of austere habits later drawn to debauchery and grotesque cruelties. A notable moment recounts a misdirected execution where a friend was tortured before a death sentence, with Tiberius remarking on the error. The text shifts to various satirical notes and ads.
Fragmentary text mentions Castoria and its use with children. The readable lines describe remedies or products and a travel reference, but content is incomplete and unclear about context or outcomes.
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