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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1915
Page
4
Uncle Oracle Oaken recalls a past winter with extreme cold and frozen humor. He describes can of Durin water cracking, Nevecca freezing in minutes, and ice that bites a stutterer while boys played tricks by freezing shrieks in the fireplace for visitor fright.
Concord John Arney and family spent Saturday and Sunday with Roscoe Flynn and wife of Jackson Hill. Elmer Andis and family visited Sunday with Ben Fiddler and family. John Kelsey and wife spent Sunday with Aaron Hattery and family. Mrs Minnie Winklepleck of Missouri is visiting her parents Joseph Rosenberry and wife. Essie Wilkey spent Sunday with Eliza Chestnut and family near Shiloh. Delmer Franklin and wife and son Russell and Elmer Mallette spent Sunday with Jack Franklin and family. Joe Rosenberry and family near Elnora visited Sunday with Joseph. Mattie Faith visited with her grandmother near Epsom Saturday. Ida Franklin spent Saturday with Ora and Lula Wade. Joseph Rosenberry and family and Mrs Minnie Winklepleck were guests of Ed Barley and family Tuesday.
Wilson Seegers visits uncle Oscar Hand this week. Mrs. Sam Scott and Mrs. Boone Dean visit Fanny Graber. Laura Hermann visits Blanche Bennett. Frank Shultz and family visit Gus Seegers. Groves family visits Geo Tomey and Mary Campbell. Groups travel to Loogootee. Boxing club takes indefinite vacation. Jonn down with nervous prostration. manager Graber plans Illinois trip. Detective Clark theorizes Jimtown shooting was potatoes bursting due to gas.
Six boxes of strawberries yield five pints of jam and three dozen similar canning figures are given for currants peaches quinces plums and crabapples. The Central Union Tel Co of Washington with a Ford led in Daviess county by registering a machine at the State House this year. W J Hiram of Montgomery followed, totaling 311 in the county. Indiana totals show 83 000 automobile owners registered for 1915 versus 65 000 in 1914, with Fords leading at about 3900.
Community brief detailing travel for residents to Odon Elnora Loogootee and Vincennes. Includes church events at M. E. Church with a piano purchase and seven graduates at commencement led by Rev. Allen C. Trusty of Odon. Also mentions school attendance and social visits among locals.
Mr and Mrs Melvin Cooper and daughter Nellie Mrs Lan Freeman and daughter Edith and Reason Bennett drove to Washington Tuesday in the latter s car.
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