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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1906
Page
2
The column lists subscription rates payable in advance and announces advertising rates for the Iterad at the Odon Indiana post office. Editor Dean M Inman argues towns prosper when merchants cooperate to attract trade and warns readers about swindles preying on the public.
A local vignette praises the town’s big hearted people and their simple joys like the frog in the yard. A reporter recalls a neighbor’s fire story where no one was home and the blaze was already out.
A long list of local social visits and upcoming events in Odon Indiana area. Miss N Jane Smiley of Barrs Mills travels to Washington, D C while neighbors such as P A Winklepleck and Alma Helm visit relatives and attend concerts. Notices include renting a house, road surveys, a Choral Symphony Club concert, planned church events, and a two week sale at Hayes and Pickett.
The Odon Library Association shows a refreshed catalog with new arrivals including Tempest and Sunshine, Scottish Chiefs, A Romance of Two Worlds, Prue and I, The Pilot, Under the Deodars, Self raised, Ishmael, Donovan, Thaddeus of Warsaw, Robinson Crusoe, Aesop's Fables, Beyond the City, Twice told Tales, My Lady Catherine, Minister's Wooing, Elsie Venner, Master of Ballantrae, Westward Ho, Vendetta, John Balifax, Jane Eyre, Knight Errant, Last of the Barons, and The Light of Asia. The list prompted increased patronage after the prior week’s publication.
Clara and Etta Davis visit Port Arthur with their parents Mr and Mrs Davis. Opha Keith stopped by Bessie Donald in Washington. Syed Jones and his sister visited John Wirth. Onie Keith visited sister Mrs Ira Patterson. Lucy McDonald visited Clay McDonald near Washington. I N Keith and family hosted. Elmer Buzan and Bertha joined Sunday visit. Isaac Bell Thomas Keith Edith Davis Libbie Feagans called on Mrs Ira Patterson. Noah Wilson and Lula Fyffe traveled from Chelsea. Samuel McNight seen at Epsom. Mrs T T Jones hosted friends at a carpet rag tacking event.
A personal letter from Clarence and his wife serving in Canton under the Woman's Missionary Board notes a more encouraging year than the last, defends Canton from harsh pap er portrayals, and welcomes Mr. and Mrs. Bean from the circuit who are proving to be promising and helpful in their work.
Notice to inhabitants and electors of Odon in Daviess County Indiana of a June 23 1906 election at Old Town Hall to decide issuing five thousand dollars in bonds to build and equip an addition to the public school building. The plan includes a two story brick addition with classrooms and assembly space.
Sunday visits marked social activity around Bellview with multiple couples and families traveling from Elnora Mug Pike Sandborn and Mud Pike. Names include Hastings Collins Stringer Nugent Hannah Myers Courtney Taylor and Killion with gatherings and a children's day exercise at Elnora.
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