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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1916
Page
7
Mrs. Katherine Raney of Tene Haute visits nephew L. E. Raney. Numerous trips noted include Miss Cora Nugent and Miss Trula Mize to Washington for teacher exams, Dr. Porter to Linton, and families from Burns City Plainville Odon and Terre Haute visiting relatives. A hospital operation for Mrs. Hastings is reported as successful with expected recovery.
Old soldiers and children observed Decoration Day in Elnora with a cemetery procession to Farview and the old grounds, a church program, prayers, solos, quartets, a sermon, and music by the Elnora Z orchestra drawing a large audience.
On Sunday afternoon May 28 Memorial Day was observed by the G A R Soldiers with a program at the M E Church. The Elnora orchestra provided music and the program began at 2 30 with America sung by the congregation. Rev S H Dyer offered prayer, and Miss Gertrude Mix played an instrumental solo followed by Misses Ethel Bray and Mary Wiltshire in a duet and solos by Mrs R G Pershing and Miss Frances Mix. Rev S J Shake read Scripture and Rev J J Bare of the Christian Church delivered the sermon with a final solo by T M Hickey ending the program.
George Greggs of Terre Haute and Dona Hill of this place united in marriage Saturday afternoon at three o'clock at the home of Rev S J Shake M E Church pastor. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Ambros Hill and the groom is a Terre Haute young man. They left Sunday night for Terre Haute to begin their life together where the groom is employed.
Mary Ruth Hash, one year old, died at her grandparents home in Elnora Sunday after several weeks of illness. She leaves behind her father James Hash, mother, a sister, and her grandparents with many relatives and friends in mourning.
Lewis Clements of this place and Mrs. Della Porter of Indianapolis were married in Washington Thursday afternoon last week. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Amanda Bratton of this place, had lived in Indianapolis for some time. The groom, a respected Elnora citizen and rural route carrier on route No. 1, will make their home there.
A Pearson's Weekly item recalls Lord Beresford urging total contraband against German goods and seizure of enemy property. It features an Irish voter quip about past Beresford campaigns and Irish wit in Waterford, highlighting humor in politics and wartime stance.
The Bay State Street railway has paid about 120000 for a valuation report while expert Feustel tests before the public service commission at 50 dollars daily. If the road wins, 2000000 six cent fares must be collected. if it loses, 2400000 nickel fares are needed to cover costs, Feustel estimates a shortfall of 1615165 dollars annually.
New York correspondence notes the faded era of ex champions in Broadway. Young Corbett, once lightweight king, sits daily outside a Times Square cafe, discouraged and idle, while Kid McCoy appears prosperous and philosophical, illustrating two fates in the boxing world.
A state fish and game commission letter to the public argues it is illegal to kill bats. It notes California has 28 bat species and 541 birds, cites laws protecting bats to curb injurious insects, and describes bats feeding on insects at lights.
Miss Harriet Noyes of Canton reports witnessing Capt. Tom Gunn, a Chinese aviator, fly a self built aeroplane. He is the brother in law of a student there and drew many students from local schools to watch as he circled the city. It is claimed he can fly to Hongkong and back very quickly.
A Buffalo Express writer notes poetry prices have not risen with popularity. Kipling earned large sums for reunifying poems, Spoon River poems sparked royalties, Walt Mason earns about 12 dollars per poem daily, and historic figures like Moore Byron and Longfellow commanded high yearly incomes.
William Murray Black is named chief of engineers of the army and noted as a leading American engineer. Born in Lancaster Pennsylvania he graduated from West Point in 1877 and devoted his career to river and harbor improvements. He directed work in Puerto Rico and Cuba and helped raise the wreck of the battleship Maine. He authored Improvements of Harbors and Public Works of the United States and contributed to periodicals.
John Malia, deputy sheriff of Lewiston, Maine, owns a 35 year old Shetland pony noted as Maine’s oldest. The affectionate pet has served three generations of the Malia children and freely moves between house and barn.
Mrs. Ronald H. Barlow won the North and South women’s title with a final tee drive that struck a robin feeding near the group of birds. The club will mount the stuffed robin in the clubhouse as a local memory of the incident.
A brief exchange shows a soldier accusing himself of an error in aiming during a drill. The sergeant questions the accuracy, highlighting a lapse in judgment and focus as they discuss the targeting misstep.
A wearying view emerges from Gen Smuts forces in German East Africa. A South African horse trooper reports daily sightings of wildebeest eland hartebeest gemsbok roosbok and springbok among the flats. Lions leopards and hyenas stalk patrols while bush lice menace horses and men as night sounds haunt the camps.
James W. Jump of Los Angeles breaks the world record for an afternoon game fish catch using rod and reel off Molokini Island Maui Territory of Hawaii. He decks two yellowfin tunas 70 and 62 pounds a six foot 61 pound catch and a five foot 42 pound fish a two and a barracuda six two inches long plus smaller game fish for a total over 300 pounds in a single afternoon.
The text compares motorships to steamers, noting no large boilers or stokeholds in a motor ship and oil fuel use at one fifth the rate of coal or oil fired steamers. It states a 10,000 ton tramp steamer can carry about 600 tons more cargo, yielding large yearly freight savings.
A veteran describes wartime life aboard a train, detailing removal from home, barracks, new khaki clothes, a renamed number, and being forced to attend a long sermon. He recalls a commandant’s question and receiving seven days’ confinement for a civil reply, as reported playfully by the Manchester Guardian.
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