Jimtown Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Illnesses
Jimtown residents report a flurry of Tuesday and Saturday visits across Elnora Plainville Linton and surrounding areas. hospital updates include Arthur Ritter recovering at St. D. A. Russell Wyoming from a blood poisoning arm injury. Harve Hackler recovering after Friday surgery with Dr Chas Young noted as a frequent Bloomington visitor.
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Arthur Ritter
St. D. A. Russell
Wyoming
Harve Hackler
Chas. Young
Bloomington
Jimtown
Saloon remonstrance drive and local notices from Daviess county
Seventies era notices report a saloon reform push with citizens urged to sign a remonstrance in Daviess county. Obituaries note Jesse Trueblood's death at eighty five in Ven Bur en township. County tax appraisals and town figures, plus local church wedding plans and school start dates, are listed alongside miscellaneous society items.
War Time Chronicle and a Drugstore War Tax Tale
Quirky tale recounts merchants boosting prices to profit during wartime, with clerks Ralph and Den urged to push salt substitutes like Get There Lightning Pills. A complexion powder customer leads to selling salts, Rexall goods proclaimed, and peace returns to the store. Local notices list Sunday visits and a cattle loss from grass poisoning.
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Ralph
Den
Gil
Rexall
Local visitors and Sunday notes from Elnora area
MARSH several locals attended a movie in Elnora Saturday night. Roy Laughlin and family alongside N O Richardson and family visited Ralph Laughlin Sunday. Ota Wilson stays with Elliot Flynn this week. Ed Copland and family plus Bessie and Mildred Stringer called on Clarence Woolbright and family of Farview Sunday. Issac Lemasters and son Ab of Plainville spent Sunday with J A Stewart. Bertha Stringer visited sister Sarah Cole and children. Henry Poindexter and daughter Flossie visited David Andis and family of Elnora. Blanche Lemasters spent early week with J A Stewart. The Misses Cleo Meurer Opal Stewart Nelle Pruett and others attended preaching at Shiloh Sunday night. Threshers are busy in the vicinity. Eyler Hastings and Skee Browning of Concord motored through Sunday evening.
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Ed Copland
Bessie
Mildred Stringer
Clarence Woolbright
Farview
Cleo Meurer
Opal Stewart
Nelle Pruett
Messrs
Harley Andis
Tommey Smiley
Standley Hastings
Shiloh
Chamberlains Tablets Help Stomach Troubles Told
Mrs M R Sears of Baldwinsville New York reports a six month stomach upset improved after starting Chamberlains Tablets and continuing use until cured The tablets do not relieve pain but may prevent recurrence Sold by the Odon Drug Co. Also notes visit by Mrs Cauming and son Lester Cummings and daughter Dott Cummings to Elnora.
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Chamberlain
M.R. Sears
Baldwinsville
N. Y
Odon Drug Co
Wm. Cummings
Dott of
Elnora
Preaching Sunday Night at Mt Nebo
Miss Susie McCallian returned to her home in Odon after a week with her sister Mrs Wilbert Henderson. Wilbert Barker and family visited Fiza Barker and family. Marvel Townsend and family stayed at Jim Campbell's. Mrs Carl Nicholson and son Norman of Joliet Illinois visit her parents Mr and Mrs Robert Denny. Delbert Denny was at Terre Haute Sunday.
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Helen
W. C. Myers
G. F. Culmer
Walnut Hill Cemetery
Rufus Joel Danner
Elnora
Josh Barker
John Barker
Jim Graham
James
John Plummer
Tom Townsend
Susie McCallian
Odon
Wilbert Henderson
Marvel Townsend
Jim Campbell
Carl Nicholson
Norman
Joliet Ill
Robert Denny
Delbert Denny
Terre Haute
Shiloh Services Attendances and Community Arrangements
Local Shiloh services drew large crowds led by Sister Ramp and Brother Houser with another meeting scheduled in two weeks. Neighbors and relatives from Hoopston, Eaglesville, Plainville, Farlen, and nearby areas joined project families for Sunday visits and social hours amid busy wheat threshing and haymaking season. A court notice from Daviess County, Indiana, appears with a quiet title action against multiple defendants regarding a parcel of land described as a fourteen acre strip in section 18, township 5 north, range 5 west, to be heard at the September term starting September 3, 1917.
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State of Indiana
Daviess County
Daviess
E. Meade
Mattingly & Myers
Ramp
Brother Houser
Ss. Daviess Circuit Court
Richard J. McCaillan
Benjamin Liles Perkins
Mary Perkins
Susan Foyer
James Moore
Lizzie Pate
Lulu Edwards
William Moore
William Freed
Susannah Freed
Henry Freed
Elizabeth Moore
Margaret Christenberry
Daviess Circuit Court
Indiana
Edw. E. Meade
Former Nebraska Governor to Speak on The Challenge of America
Ex-Governor Chester W. Aldrich of Nebraska will keynote the last day of the Chautauqua series with a talk titled The Challenge of America. Aldrich, a former state senator and governor, helped craft the Nebraska commission law and other major reforms and is regarded as a leading midwestern lawyer and orator.
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Nebraska
Chautauqua
Chester 4
Aldrich
America
Nebraska Commission
Middle West
New Jersey
New York Times
Ashtabula County
Ohio State University
Trustee Announces Office Hours in Odon
Township Trustee R. K. McCarter will be in Odon at the E. T. Laughlin building on west Main street Wednesday and Saturday each week and at his residence on all other days to attend to Madison township business.
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Odon
E. T. Laughlin
West Main Street
Madison Township
R. K. McCarter
Misses Blanche Pickett and Lena Morris Return From Indianapolis
The Misses Blanche Pickett and Lena Morris arrived Friday evening after a two week visit with Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Stacy of Indianapolis.
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Blanche Pickett
Lena Morris
F. A. Stacy
Indianapolis
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Co-operative
Attice
flint-Kyle
Jimtowan
Anna Burshart
Daisy
Verna Young
Gee. Hackie
Plainville
Tueday
Leo Perkins
Mary Alice
H Dyer
Maude Bukhart
Maude Ritter
Ethel Burkhar
Marie McFarlen
Margaret Clark
Im Weaver
Geo. Hackler
Wie
Catherine
May Wilkins
Linton
Cisco Palmer
Wife
Neignburhood
Roy Hinkk
Mose Overton Af Ocon
John Eads
Marie
Cassie Lucas
Roy Grant
Spencer
Geo. Ilackier
Mildred Flater c. Bloomfield
Mildred Thompson
James Ritter
Roscoe England
Jing Burd
Jorn Ketchem
Chas
Young
Hamas Young
Rev. S. H. Dyer
Oscar Rader
Clyde Bigle
Detroit Michigan
John Ketchem
Jesse Trueblood
Ven Buren
Trueblood
Eaglesville
Montgomery
Farlen
J.M. Stotts
Miss Elfie
T. B. Rankin
Tom
J. M. Hindman
Niagra Falls
Eliza Helm
Tunnel Switch
A. E Crooke
Carl Burrell
Lasca
Hugh Merrill
WAR Time Chronicle
Samuel
Tien
Bert Hasler
Howesville
Wm. Barker
Tilman Barker
Wm. Henderson
Mrs. Pierce McNeely
Little Son
Newberry
I. D. Meekend Level Cooper
The
Odin Reduction Co
Roy Laughlin
N. O. Richardson
Ralph Laughlin
Ota Wilson
Elliot Flynn
Issac Lemasters and Son Ab of
J. A. Stewart
Bertha Stringer
Sarah Cole
Henry Poindexter
Flossie
David Andis
Blanche Lemasters
J. A Stewart
Eyler Hastings
Skee. Browning
Concord
MT. Nebo
Wilbert Barker
Fiza Barker
Herschell Ramp
Hoopston
Illinois
George Pruett
John Young
George Bynum
Thomas Resler
Jessie Roach
Pearl Chestnut
Herschel Harper
Sam Raney
James Chestnut
Sunday
Daisy Byrer
Rose Gardner
Jake Myers
Near Epsom
James Overton
Family
Albert Lamb
Dott Overton
Robert Zigler and
Fred Marley
California
Will Harper
Robert Zigler
Clark Lamb
Family Sunday
Walter Chestnut
Miss Pearl
Fletcher Noblett
A. N. Long
Joseph Bechtel
Sarah Chestnut
Elisha Chestnut
Roy Rosenberry
Fern
O. O. Hinkle
Pleasie Jolliff
Alice Humerickhouse of
John Humerickhouse
Gladis Hamerickhouse
Miss Lula
D. W. Resler
QO. O
Willis Chestnut
Herschel Resler
Jim and
Eck
Callahan & O’dell
Buffalo Brands
Cline
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