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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1915
Page
7
Local residents travel between Linton Odon and surrounding towns visiting relatives on Sundays and Saturdays. Many attend church services and revival meetings, while others conduct business, ship livestock, or supervise bridge repairs. Notable names include Irwin, Swartz, Sears, Bowman, Inman, Winklepleck, and Terrell with frequent notes of travel to Terre Haute Bloomington Lafayette and Greencastle.
Church notices for Elmora M. E. include Sunday School at 9 15 a m with J E Pershing as superintendent Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p m Epworth League Friday at 7 30 p m sermon at 10 30 a m Love in four dimensions and a children day service at 7 30 p m with Dr W S Biddle district superintendent as guest The public is invited to attend all services.
Pastor C Howard Buchanan announces preaching on the 2nd and 4th Lord s Day. Bible School on Lord s Day at 9 30 morning. Christian Endeavor meets 1st and 3rd Lord s Day at 7 15 p m. All invited to every service.
Elnora Greys suffer their second defeat as Bloomfield defeats them 5 to 4 at Bloomfield ballpark. Horning, the Greys regular pitcher, cannot start, and Hubert Farris, once with the Elnora Champs, fails to contain Bloomfield.
The Loyal Sons and Loyal Daughters Sunday School Classes of the Christian church held a banquet in Porters Hall on Saturday night for about fifty invited guests. An interesting program was presented by the two classes followed by refreshments of ice cream strawberries cake and other treats. The remainder of the evening featured games and entertainments of various kinds.
Dandelion clover trefoil and shamrock act as air barometers. The dandelion blooms when fluffy seed heads form and expands in fine weather and closes before rain. Clover varieties open or close with rain and show stem swelling prior to wet spells. Horse chestnut leaves fan during fair weather and droop with rain. Scarlet pimpernal opens only in sun and shuts when rain arrives.
The article notes revolver production and distribution in New England, with a Massachusetts maker claiming large exports to Britain, Chicago, Denver, and New York. It also recounts Maine residents owning Mayflower relics, including a bed cord of whale sinew used on the Mayflower and a grandfather’s conch shell used as a Revolutionary War signal.
The New Brunswick New Jersey experiment station reports seedless tomatoes from Prof Halsted with many fruits nearly seedless and some completely seedless when crossed with crimson cushion tomato. Some varieties are dwarfs, others large, with one tasting like a strawberry, and the work aims to establish several satisfactory seedless varieties for table use.
A young woman describes visiting Milwaukee with Mr. Rockwell a business friend of her father. She plans to study architecture as she hopes to persuade her father to build a handsome modern home and notes Mr. Rockwell’s cordial invitation and her anticipation of viewing his new place.
Easy overfeeding harms fowls as many appear starved though fed. Focus on one well cared-for breed, milk feeding aids poultry fattening, incubating dirty eggs lowers hatch rates, and avoid deformed or sickly chicks to prevent disease and improve overall quality. Poultry and dairy farming complement each other.
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