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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1907
Page
2
A fragmented editorial voice critiques local merchants who shun advertising while condemning mail order houses. It laments lenient curfews for older teens, urges parental restraint and warns against social restlessness of girls on summer evenings. The piece urges responsible behavior and condemns gossip.
The piece argues that editors face censure for errors and bias, yet must oppose public evils with blunt honesty. It defends journalism as a noble profession where earnest work can benefit society and wield meaningful power.
Mrs Harriet Martin an elderly resident of Elnora died Tuesday at her daughter Mrs Stewart s home from old age. The body was taken to Salem for burial.
B Boyd editor of the Washington Democrat collapsed from heat Monday afternoon in the post office. He was helped to the private office of Postmaster Faith, Dr Scudder summoned, and he was later driven home in an ambulance. He remained in pain from a torn ligament in a leg.
The piece notes busy attorneys in northern Daviess County and mentions Thomas Sears of Elnora arriving in Washington with sore hands from carpentry on a home addition. Prosecutor Laughlin of Odon visited the city on Tuesday and reported sore, blistered hands from hod work.
Asa Haig and John O Dell spend Sunday at Linton while E T Laughlie visits Elnora Tuesday. Numerous locals travel to Terre Haute and Burg City for races and social events. Family news and visits fill the week with weddings, funerals, and trades noted, including McCarter birth and Montgomery drug store swap.
Citizens of Odeon celebrate discovery of oil at Lyone in Greene county as $5,000 worth of stock in the Odon Oil Prospecting Company is sold. The company says the capital will fund two deep wells and drilling should start within two weeks.
At a recent committee meeting Joseph Moss former county treasurer and president of several Linton companies offered a $20 000 building site for a YMCA if the organization would build a $20 000 structure on a lot valued at $3 000 His offer was presented on behalf of himself and his wife revealing civic philanthropy in Linton.
Last Sunday marked Thomas Chiles 69th birthday with all children present except eldest Alzira Queree of Mound Valley Kansas. Chiles born and raised in Indiana served in the 27th Regiment Indiana Vol during the Civil War and spent 35 years in Kansas before returning to his first love four years ago.
Quincy Holland died at his Martin county home Sunday from consumption. Son of Thos Holland, he worked for G D Abraham & Co. until last spring and was nephew of John Holland. A well known and popular youth, he was eighteen. Funeral services were at Old Salem church in Martin county Tuesday afternoon.
In Memoriam for Martha Elizabeth Reese wife of Jerome Reese born March 2 1844 died July 32 1907. She joined the U B church in 1872 lived a consistent Christian life and raised three foster children. She was loved by all who knew her with a large congregation at the funeral by Rev J M Inman and Rev Hile Planville assisted by others.
At Burks City depot, William O Manual forced entry and took seven or eight dollars in cash and tickets. He triggered a switch and attempted to flag a southbound freight train, then boarded it before the conductor and local agent noticed the intrusion. The agent investigated the disrupted premises.
Sam A Herndon of Terre Haute, nephew of H F Herndon, caught a fish in the Rel river last Wednesday weighing fifty six pounds.
Fy. Co. offers summer tourist tickets from Odon Indiana from June 20 to September 30 1907 to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Salt Lake City Ogden Utah and Grand Junction Colorado for pleasure travel.
Notice by the Daviess Circuit Court commissioner of Harratt Feller et al ex parte to sell estate. Sale at private sale at the law office of E T Laughlin in Odon Indiana at 10 oclock a m on August 21 1907. Described land includes 80 acres in the southwest quarter of section 28 township 5 north range 5 west with railroad right of way exceptions. Terms: one third cash, one third in nine months, one third in eighteen months.
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