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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1903
Page
3
Harve Correll and J AM Wicklepleek travel between towns while Miss Ora Dobbina returns from Indianapolis for her ill mother. Families and neighbors share visits, scripture notes, weathered anecdotes, and small-town happenings from Buckskin to Plainville with a new regulator and a long awaited telephone line expansion.
The local lodge of the IOFC observed Decoration Day with a march to the old cemetery to decorate graves. Rev C H Buchanan spoke at the Christian church, and the S F L band provided music.
The Princetonian notes fourteen US colleges publish weekday papers. Dailies include Columbus Spectator, Daily Maroon of Chicago, Indiana University Daily. Early examples: Harvard Echo 1879, Yale Daily News 1880, Pennsylvanian 1885, Brown Crown Daily Serakl 1891, with Western titles Calfornian, Pale Xtta Dais, Daily Minnesota, Daily Cardinal, and U M Daily.
Covington Kentucky preacher Rev John Hayes of the U B church spoke Sunday and Monday night delivering two strong sermons. He later lectured at the opera house on How the blind man saw the elephant praising the lecture while lamenting the small turnout and urging support for a good man.
Several citizens gathered at Odon on Saturday including Isaac Fulkerson of Lasca. Wesley M. French moved into a new house south of town on Thursday. Harry and Timothy Smith of sear Rhillion visited relatives Friday and Saturday. Joseph Demesy will open a coal mine south of there after drilling through thirty inches of coal last Saturday. Mrs. Vaughn the aged mother of Mrs. Juobn Stout died Friday night with burial in Aiglesville cemetery Sunday evening. O P Herndon and M D Poorma fished Hindustan Falls last Wednesday and Thursday catching two catfish weighing 4 13 pounds and 27 pounds. Died: At his home 3 miles southeast of there Friday evening at 7 o'clock Mr Charles Omaley a mentor of St Josephs church funeral services held Sunday burial in the adjoining cemetery at 10230.
George and Din Myers are building a barn for David Weaver in Elmore. Several locals attended events in nearby towns including a Decoration Day and church gatherings. A road petition update lists new viewers F. W. Shaffer P. S. Boyd and B. F. Sears. Also a feature on preventive medicine highlights sanitation gains and public health progress.
Walter C. Garten Lowry Cooper and Alonzo A. Lane become owners of the Odon Exchange Bank now held by George D. Abraham. They will assume control in about thirty days increase capital stock and relocate the bank to Spring Street.
Last Sunday at 8:30 pm at D B Dunham's home in Elnora Marshal Cooper and Lola Jacobs were married by Rev M S Taylor in a private ceremony. The couple, described as fine and pleasant, plan to establish a home on Etoora street and target a July 1 celebration with an attraction at the opera house on the 3rd and 4th.
A youth in a public school received a medal for pure good nature. He had no standout academic record, yet his amiability and urbane conduct earned notice, reflecting high esteem for kindness. The piece praises amiability as a powerful, comforting influence and suggests making such medals common in schools.
Arthur Lyons killed his stepmother at his father Joel Lyons home northeast of Loogotée last Thursday about 4 30 pm. He fled into the woods and, after a manhunt, died by suicide Tuesday as a posse closed in. The motive cited was dispute over property and Lyons recent return from California where he served in the regular army.
George Nelly living two miles southwest of Epsom hosted a large birthday dinner last Sunday at his home to mark his 25th birthday. About 40 people attended and all enjoyed the meal.
A woodsman Zach Chandler from Deep Hollow treks Turks Hill in autumn near Susquehanna Pennsylvania and shoots what appears to be two owls fighting over a field mouse. He discovers a single two headed, four legged body after the shot, saves the carcass then it dies the next day.
The Washington correspondent notes a push to end smoking in the White House reception room. President Roosevelt ordered Arthur Simmons to enforce a no smoking rule, facing pushback from southern and western congressmen. Simmons, a respected church pillar, complained of the harsh language used toward him. A “No Smoking Allowed” sign now stands in the reception room as men enter with cigars.
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