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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1911
Page
1
The Daviess county commissioners fixed March 28 for local option elections. They also set a saloon population tax at one per thousand inhabitants. Four petitions for elections in Washington city Madison Elmore and Starr townships will all vote on the same date despite a school teachers’ association meeting.
The M E Church invites all to Sunday night services at the church in P MO. A sermon tailored for young men and women will be followed by Sunday school at 9 30 a m preaching at 10 30 a m and 7 p m Junior league meets at 2 p m All are welcome to participate and support.
Program listing for March 12 1931 includes song numbers 147 and 215, scripture lesson by Iesson-Dott Skemp, prayer by Miss Rose Culmer, solos by Madge Ragle and Lorene Anderson, recitation Edith Freeman, instrumental solo Della Overton, reading by Blanch Baker, a solo by Lorene Anderson, nine o'clock song Lo, a business section, and dismissal led by Clara Lewis.
A postal worker in Washington Indiana found a wrapped package in a Main Street mailbox containing forty five pocket knives with a note asking police to return them to Modore's hardware Bridgeport Illinois. The items were traced to a Bridgeport hardware store and the knives were returned to their owner.
Notice to the public states a stock interest in a hardware business has been sold to Mr. Alonzo W. Jaughey forming Kecks & Caughey. The notice asks for patronage and mentions Mr. Caughey as a long-established hardware man in Oden. It includes references to Keck & Sons Rose Comb Rhode Islands Reds and Pure Breed Red Feather eggs priced at $1 per 15. 2D. J. Abraham.
A sequence of community notes records Sunday visits among the Riggins, Stuckey, Lamb, and Overton families in Eaglesville, Plainville, Odon, and Washington. Additional entries note Hinkle and Coyle family gatherings, travel, and local commerce with huckster wagon activity.
Harve Riggins, recovering from a broken leg, uses crutches while Roy Dant suffers a double leg fracture from a colt accident near Ragl esville. Miss Agnes Pate visits with Mary Cages and stock moves at the O Connor farm sale drawing buyers from Knox and surrounding counties.
Customers are invited to see a wide display of wallpaper patterns promising to brighten homes. The notice emphasizes upgrading from the shabby walls with a fresh pattern to replace the old decor at Callanan's Drug Store.
Chas Holt travels to Illinois for summer work. Wim McKinney and family visit Wim Brumett. Mr and Mrs Shirley Howard and daughter Lona visit Jane Howard. J B Phipps and family with Will Coward and Tom Phipps visit H M Connell. Nora York and Noah Fisher families ill. Aliie Clark of Coalmont visits. Death reported of John T Phillipps formerly of this community.
O M Deal pastor at Eaglesville. Epworth League Saturday night at 7. Sunday school 9 30 morning. Preaching 10 30. Prayer meeting Tuesday eve 7 led by A M Clark. Center preaching Sunday 2 30. Public invited to all services.
Eye health message urges prompt eye examinations at Reck the Jeweler and Optician. It promotes Dr. Hess' Poultry Food to boost egg production with a sample at Callahan's Drug Store.
We sincerely thank neighbors friends and the Order of Odd Fellows for kindness and sympathy during illness and death of our husband and father. We also thank the Order of Odd Fellows and Mount Olive Church for floral offerings. Pure Early Red June and Northern White Seed Oats. See Rezia Overton.
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