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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1901
Page
3
Odon area items report social visits and travel, with notes on residents attending the State Normal at Terre Haute, and talk of local meetings. The Old Settlers plan events in August, and business trips include Crooke to Washington and Danner to Evansville.
A damaged OCR fragment shows unreadable notes about a drug store update or relocation. It mentions a date like the 16th and a new ae or address line, but lacks clear details.
Carl Crooke aged fifteen months died Wednesday evening at home in Indianapolis from dysentery. Remains were brought home on the 7:54 train and taken to G D Abraham's house. Funeral services by Eld C B Buchanan were held yesterday at 10 o clock, burial followed in Walnut Hill cemetery.
A. E. O'Dell plans to relocate The Journal building across the street between the corner building and Jlliver & Co store and erect a brick structure on the old site. W. J. Danner envisions a large two story building filling the entire street corner near John McCarty's old brick front and Stoy's drug store.
Plainville hosts a meeting of willers and grain dealers who end the loaning of sacks for threshing. Sack exchanges will be set up at Odon Elnora Newberry Plainville Washington and other marketing points. Sacks rent for 6 cents per day per 100 or 4 cents per sack per day. A Jolliff Coghill handles rental. farmers must go there to borrow instead of to the mill.
The Odon ball team won the Fourth of July game against Bedford in a rough match. Bedford was crippled and relieved at times while Odon struggled with injuries and supplies, yet showed stronger play overall. Final score readings show Bedford ten to fourteen in a low scoring, error filled affair.
A large crowd gathered in Odon under the Modern Woodmen of America for a wide array of events celebrating the Declaration of Independence. Ballon ascent, speeches by W. E. Clark and Capt. Y. Marten, graphophone amusement, baseball games, and a Main Street fireworks display capped a successful community picnic amid peanut stands and music.
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