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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1911
Page
8
An editorial warns that mail order catalogs form a vast net drawing trade from local merchants. It urges merchants to rely on the home newspaper to retain patrons against outside butterfly catchers and the lure of the dollar.
A quiet October evening at Samuel Trevor’s home is upended when a visitor asks for him. The woman, Madge Hopkins, once lured Trevor into a doomed marriage at a lumber camp and faked her death to obtain remittances. A detective reveals she had secretly married another man and posed as dead to claim aid, returning after his death to demand support.
Local social notes list visits among residents of Concord and nearby towns including Mrs. Lee Wresler, Miss Lula Wade, Roscoe Franklin, and the Arney and Hackler families. A public notice from the Van Buren township advisory board seeks sealed bids for school supplies with dates and conditions as prescribed.
News notes from Trinity Springs recount a local 4th of July celebration with families visiting relatives and spending Sunday together. Names include Millie Long, Miss Iva Baile, Lula and Lilly Long, Grace Callahan, Ha Boardman, Ruby Kinnaman, Viola Fielder, Nellie Fielder, Davie and Kitty Smith, Paul Sears, Everett Boardman, Mrs. Sam Kinnaman, Alice, and Mrs. Mary Smith. Oscar Alford of Elnora attended events.
July 3 program lists scripture reading by Clara Lewis prayer by Wallice Suiley songs and solos by Sophia Hamersly Lorene Aucersein Ree Alvin Pershing Kalith Freeman Elizabeth Croghke with leader Dutt Shoup and choir or group referred to as Chisses.
Announcement by the post office department states a postal saving bank will be established in Washington Indiana. The bank will open for business on July 20 and will be the fourth in the state’s region after Bedford Lent and Princeton.
The Chicago Terre Haute eastern Railway Company publishes the Southeastern Line timetable effective Sept 4 with south bound No 5 No 3 and No 1 from Terre Haute departing 7:35 p.m. and arriving various towns including Jasonville Linton Beechhunter Odon Bedford Seymour and others with listed arrival and departure times. North bound trains No 2 No 4 No 6 from Terre Haute depart morning and run to Jasonville Linton Beech hunter Elnora Odon Bedford Seymour with times shown.
From Isaac Weld Jr 1795 account the road to Baltimore crosses three floating bridges set on the Schuylkill near Philadelphia. Large trees anchor the crossings with transverse planks and side rails. He notes the bridges drift with heavy carriages yet remain safe with regular removal for vessel passage.
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