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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1910
Page
5
Friends and family of Eli Helm laid floral tributes celebrating his life with many arrangements. One notably honored his patriotic spirit by weaving flowers into the American flag design.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of our dear husband and father Mrs. Eli B. Helm and children.
The Odon Journal urges readers to subscribe now to catch coverage of the popular girl contest as it becomes the talk of the town.
During the Popular Girl Contest the Odon Journal offers free one year subscriptions to Farm Life to yearly subscribers. New or renewing readers get the 32 page magazine along with votes toward their favorite contestant, with prizes including a $400 piano. Mrs Hugh Neeriemer and Miss Mattie Neeriemer visited Raglesville yesterday.
A thirteen day old fashioned camp meeting at Odon ended Wednesday night after a revival led by Rev. W H Todd Miss Myrtle Todd and Evangelist C G Ritnebarger with helpers from Oakland City Petersburg and Odeon. About 1500 attended nightly with 120 at the altar and 90 professing faith and most converts being young men and women.
A South American pampas tale describes snakes, owls, herons, storks, and a tyrant bird preying on iguanas. An iguana kills a snake with its powerful tail, while a rider’s trailing lasso lures a large iguana into striking blows.
The hedgehog uses a bold method when confronting adders. It rolls into a ball to force the snake to strike and back away, then bites the adder’s back to break its spine and eventually crushes the reptile with powerful paws.
An outbreak of ptomaine poisoning affected several families after a Dick's restaurant ham purchase. A letter from the state laboratory chemist says the meat was fit for sale except slightly old, leaving the exact cause of illness undetermined. Patients include Tid Cooper Henry Parlow and Mrs Vid Cooper, with others falling ill after consuming the ham.
Mr. and Mrs. Disco Winuitmill toured Mrs. Chuce J Herron Saturday night. Mrs. James Neertmer and daughter Manily visited James Herron Tuesday afternoon. Reverand from attended the beautisimng at Alt. Zion Sunday. Mrs. Margaret Cunningham spent Tuesday with Mrs. docksom Boye. Paul Connell of Oden visited Iven and Ray Connell Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burriss spent morning at W. P. Howard's. Edington and atthe sons Paul and don of Bloomfield visited PE. M. Connell and family Tuesday. Mat Poorman and wife spent Sunday with Will Sprague and family.
The Gleaners Band presents a Wednesday program with opening song and choir yell followed by a prayer and Bible work led by Ree Mae McCoy. Mabel Smiley and Leda Alexander perform, with readings by Helen Breden and Frances Arford. Geneive Ward sings solo, roll call answers with a verse, business and dismissal.
Sunday School at 9 30 in the morning and preaching both morning and evening. All other services as usual. Eug T. Lewis is the pastor.
D. Gantz and Son Pharmacists promotes fair treatment of physicians and offers prescription filling services.
A Paris furniture dealer shows a bed with a clockwork music box and lullabies to induce sleep. A headboard dial sets an alarm for the next morning. If the sleeper does not rise within five minutes after the alarm, the bed’s bottom drops out.
A photographer captured the flight of insects with exposures of 142000 second and another shot a kinematographic study of weapons. Electric sparks of one ten millionth of a second illuminated the action to obtain 400 successive phases of an automatic pistol firing, all within about one tenth of a second.
The county convention of the Christian church of Daviess county met at the First Christian church of Washington yesterday afternoon at 1 50. All departments were represented and a permanent county organization will be effected today. The Rev Garry L Cook the state Sunday school superintendent spoke Thursday evening. All sessions were open to the public.
A Chicago Tribune anecdote describes waiter interaction with a bald customer. The waiter emphasizes hair loss to provoke vanity, prompting a generous tip. Three waiters observe, noting the customer’s reaction to the displayed beer and the final dollar tip.
On a bound steamer a captain explains the old steward was discharged long ago for wearing trousers too short. A passenger overhears and a young girl hints at the truth after being pressed, the amused exchange revealing the steward’s odd downfall.
A former St. Marys student in Brazil recounts a chilling scene at St. Marys Hospital Giazette. The witness recalls a nurse or worker named Jo giving chloroform to a patient while a voicelike whisper threatened death if the patient died. The voice claimed to be the brothers and warned witnesses not to alert authorities as eight family members watched in the room. The doctor notes the eight assailants forgot his fee.
Dialogue turns on social climbing and class, contrasting Mrs Dash and her father and grandfather as peddlers. The exchange hints at reputation and restraint, with a Baconian line on trust in giving counsel. The piece underscores inherited modesty versus public ambition.
The London Globe notes the poker barely changed since early metal workers. From a stick at cave mouths to iron and brass forms, the tool remains simple and utilitarian. Ornamental versions are mockeries, while the iron poker does the rough work.
Arabian historians recount the Battle of Nehavend, fought near Bebatana between the Masten Beaver and the Persian empire, as a decisive clash that toppled the Persian dynasty and ended Zoroastrian rule, paving the way for Islamic dominance across lands from the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean. The clash, likened to the battle of Tours, is hailed as one of history’s most consequential wars.
A couple discuss ideals and a memory of Wilmer who admired a tall ideal woman in college. The man muses on whether people hold to their dreams, while the wife questions why Wilmer chose a smaller spouse, suggesting hidden ties and irony in yearning.
A peculiar tree in central Indian forests has highly sensitive leaves that deliver an electric shock to anyone touching them. It reportedly affects magnetic perception up to seventy feet away, varying by time of day with strongest power in the day and weakest at midnight. In wet weather the power vanishes. Birds avoid the tree and no insects are seen near it.
The article notes that fairs and feasts were once held in church yards to honor saints but were suppressed in the thirteenth year of King Edward’s reign due to abuses. An excerpt cited by Spelman records the king forbidding fairs and markets in churchyards.
Mrs Towne recalls a spelling night at the institute where the first three words were increase pastor salary prompting surprised reactions from Mrs Browne and others. The brief exchange hints at a suggestive misreading or joke during the event.
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