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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1905
Page
3
Local items report visitors and residents from Buros City Elpora Palmersburg Washington Seymour and other towns. bids for binder twine hay supplies and ribbons appear with sales ads from Abraham & Co and Diefendorf & Barkley. June subscription reminders and a death notice accompany rural commerce and schooling notes.
Mrs. Nancy Richardson from the North End visits Robert Richardson this week. James A. Fisher and wife of Franklin County visit relatives there this week. Ed Hubbard and family and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Phippe visited at Loogoatee Sunday.
Mrs Jennie Graham and Mrs Laura Gardiner of Odon visited last week. Rev W B Gile to preach at Mt Olive Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night with subjects The Unpardonable Sin and Selecting A Wife. Special music arranged. all invited.
Several hundred subscribers were urged to settle their accounts by June 10 due to The Journal's ownership change. The notice stresses immediate payment, arguing small balances from many customers total substantial sums and urging patrons to come in or remit at once.
Rev. J. D. Kester resigns as pastor and Rev. Breden of Dayton Ohio accepts the appointment. Breden preached yesterday to a large audience and is seen as skilled despite youth. Kester will travel to Southern California for rest and recovery. Independence citizens wish him well.
Residents of the Bramble neighborhood mount strong opposition to rural free delivery. About ninety objectors argue against the post office service, while most communities welcome the department's benefits.
The G A R will hold its annual encampment at Madison the week of June 12. Thousands of Civil War veterans with wives and children attend this yearly celebration, drawing large crowds to the event.
Program for Salmagundi Social to be held in Deaner's opera house Wednesday June 14 at 8 p m. Music by Orchestra The Voice of the Women Experiences Solo What the Band Plased Piano Solo Mildred Culmer Dislogue Duett Quartette Antioch Declamation Piano Solo Wallace Smiley Solomon Grundy Admission 10c and lic.
Samuel Dobbins of Bogard township died Tuesday evening after a three week illness. He was a skilled painter and penman with a colossal memory and praised for his ability to repeat speeches. He was an atheist admirer of Ingersoll and father of Grace Dobbins, married to Louis Seyfort of Indianapolis. Funeral held 3 PM Wednesday at Kilgore Cemetery, five miles south of Odon.
After losing to Washington, the Linton baseball crowd mocked the town. The roasts describe Washington as a second rate country town with abandoned mines and shuttered shops. They joke about crude streetcars from 1870 and a winter car resembling the Polk era.
In Milford Indiana Bartholomew county residents witnessed a bizarre event after a sudden lightning flash and thunder. The shock triggered widespread headaches and illness for hours with some not fully recovering until the next day. No cause or source of the strike could be located nearby.
A spaniel escapes a Rock Island train, tying up lines for 15 minutes while bees swarm in Versailles Kentucky. A red polo turban halts Broadway transit in New York as vice president Fairbanks is pictured sawing wood in Indianapolis. Gov Cummins declines a state bathtub, Sag Harbor votes for licensing, and a beer order inspires a 208 year drink saga.
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