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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1917
Page
2
The weekly Odon Journal printed in Indiana blends community notes with wartime humor. It laments food shortages and price boosters while poking fun at politics and war talk, noting silenced saloons and debates on rationing as locals respond to national upheaval.
A reader argues selective conscription demoralizes troops while farmers and merchants drive up food prices. The writer contends hoarding and profiteering by both merchants and farmers sustains inflation, urging action against greed and urging production for war needs.
A period editorial advocates replacing idle jail labor with productive work for all prisoners awaiting or serving sentences. It argues humane treatment and cost savings, proposing use in county jails and city works programs, with careful oversight for certain offenders. The piece ties reform to agricultural needs and urges immediate action.
Mr and Mrs Oscar Hall and son Girnet spent Sunday with Jeff Anderson and family. Mr and Mrs Emery Fiscus and children visited Charley Plummer and family. Mr and Mrs Tom Stout and daughter Hildred and Mr and Mrs Will Richardson spent Sunday with Jake Summerville and family. Truman and Donna Keck spent Saturday night with grandparents Richard Mee and Al Toon and children and Miss Hazel Carr. The Misses Elpha Inez Porter Edith Mary Bechtel Ala Lola Courtney Farrel Sargent Mabel Utterbachk Flossie Plummer Florence Richardson Margaret Allen and Harley Utterback Harvey Plumer Homer Ledgerwood Roy Edmondson Carl Cummins Flake Sargent and Mr and Mrs Henry Nichols and Grandson Rex and Mrs Edgar Porter spent Sunday with John Priest and family.
James Chestnut and Pearl Chestnut of Shiloh visit kin. Cleo Meurer and Nelle Pruett stay with Lyman Haverstock in Elnora for a Sunday S S convention. Mrs. Sarah Coal and Idaho relatives visit this vicinity. Elliot Flynn buys J T Pruett store on Main Street and plans to move. Several families visit Alibert Bright, near Washington, and Epsom. Community notices include parish activities and upcoming fairview exercises on June 17.
A frightened chick flees as preachers arrive at the park mirrored by wartime scarcity. The mother explains high prices and profiteering with the chick valued at 35c a pound, noting the master will not feed such valuable stock to visitors. The chick reframes war as having advantages and disadvantages.
Mrs. P. H. Martin of Peru Indiana reports two daughters with whooping cough improved after using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The letter claims it worked like a charm and notes its availability at The Odon Drug Co.
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