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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
3
Bed town items list church visits, travel to Terre Haute and Indianapolis, meetings, and social calls. Several residents, including Miss Florence Skomp, Hazel Crooke, and Victor Hulett, are mentioned visiting relatives or traveling. Community notes urge readers to share news and report absences.
Reports list many movements including Miss Mable Abraham from Terre Haute and Elmer Pershing at Washington. Lodging, visits, and travels span Scotland Eagleville Linton Bloodington and Texas with calls to Indianapolis and Terre Haute. Decoration Day events and a plea for students to attend school are noted.
The meeting elected Fred Toelle as president and W. B. Breden as secretary. Committees were formed for Grounds and Arrangements, Finance, Advertising, and Entertainment. The picnic will be on the O23 Settler's grounds. Tell your friends and all come.
Friday evening June 19 showcased a series of performances including Recitation by Maude Winklepleck and Carrie Cooper, Vocal Duet by Mr and Mrs Jno McCarter, instrumental duet Nelie Burrell and Wallace Smiley, and more selections by Maude Laughlin Lelia Crooke, Roose Culmer Myrti Watson, Carnet Soto Huth Merril, Aledia Garten, Oma Callahan Elizt Helin, Robie Correll Josie Wet mith, and Ladies Trix Mamie Mitchell Edit Anderson Grice Taytor.
Community brief with names, visits, travel, and small town notices. Mentions W M French at Washington, Rev J F Stanton, Mrs Rebecca Williams, J B Anderson and family, W M Preache, and various local tradesmen. Also includes fish size observations at aquarium and hats in church anecdote.
Friends of Arthur Lyons sworn to avenge his death vow after his burial as stories describe the step mother’s involvement and the somber scene at the graveside.
A New York Sun report warns that losing a gold bar fuels scams by so called honest but unlucky writers sending letters to entice recipients with fake recoveries. The pattern uses bars stamped with seals to lure buyers into costly schemes and fake letters, with few ever receiving rewards.
A desert motor-wagon carrying forty soldiers completed a trial run along the Suez road near Abbassiah. The vehicle faced sand challenges but performed well on firm sand with broad flange tires and driven by a powerful engine. Officials judged the desert transport wagon effective for troop movement, with freight tests reaching around three tons in fourteen minutes.
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