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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1901
Page
6
The notice promotes various blood cleansing products claiming to prevent disease. It stresses timely use to avert illness and compares preventive action to a proverb about saving nine. The language suggests a generic advertising claim for germ killers and germ preventers.
Nellie Lane is quite sick. Hayes W. Johnson of Washington visits the city. J. Alford of Epsom and Lowry Cooper in town. Walter Garten returns from Washington. Miss Martha West from Bart township visiting. Prof. Joseph Swain visits local schools. Miss Maggie Ward named postmistress. Charley Callahan travels to Indianapolis. Tolliver & Cooper advertise office supplies and printing. Danners promotes furnishings and meat market. Church meetings with growing interest and graduations observed.
Perjury charges against Samuel are noted. F M McConnell appointed Loogootee school principal. Fire destroys John Matthews barn near St Marys. loss 3000 with 900 insurance. George Hildreth dies at 21 from consumption. Washington township to stamp out stall pest. cost may reach 1000. March term opened by Judge Houghton. Bailiffs named Oscar Carter Harry Swords. Mayer Risely Lewis Carpenter as riding bailiffs. Washington Women’s Christian Temperance Union reports saloon violations to police and plans to present facts to grand jury. Mrs Jacobs obituary notes husband and four children. daughter of Rev Thos Wadsworth. Funeral at Eaglesville M E Church. Ream Alexander dies at 16 in Franklin. funeral held there.
Tuesday morning at Evansville Mr. Fred Harman of Van Buren township and Miss Katharine Kem bel of Evansville were united in marriage. They will reside in Van Buren township. Harman is the son of Jos. Harman, described as industrious and worthy, and the bride is praised as an excellent lady. THE Journal extends congratulations.
Sam Dubbins works at Linton while Uncle George Hackler is reported ill. A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs Chas Riggins on Wednesday. Dick Stuffle visits Plainville this week as Dr C D Fulkerson leaves for Terre Haute. Reverend Adams hosts a protracted meeting at Center church. Homer Casey and Wilbur Myers were in Loogootee Sunday. Will Clark of Burns City visits this week. A large crowd attends Mira Welty Jacobs funeral. Welty Jacobs visits Bronday. Rev Hobson preaches at U B church Sunday morning. Bloomer Wadsworth returns from LA early week. Mrs Phoebe Young improves her property with a new fence. James Wadsworth does fine cabinet work for Chas Miller. A child of Cornelius Rasler buried here last Monday from whooping cough. Room A scholars present Prof R D Win kelpleck with a watch charm at last day of school. Fox drive last Saturday a failure. plans to retry on Saturday March 30.
A note offers farm land loans at 5 to 8 percent and invites contact from Harry H. Crooke. Another ad urges maps and travel rates for Oklahoma and the South-West via the Frisco Line, directed to George Hyatt in Washington Indiana. Also promotes selling belts and cards for hides and scrap materials to W C Garten and C E VanDeusen, plus Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets from Webster's drug store and a Grand Hotel dinner promotion on Sundays.
The Odon Normal starts April 30 1901 and runs ten weeks with a Teachers Course and a High School Course. An exam for teachers’ licenses is set for Saturday June 29 1901 in the Odon School buildings. Tuition is seven dollars. For info contact Wm Abel at Udon Ind or I D Winklepleck at Raglesville Ind.
Old established house offers permanent positions with guaranteed $900 yearly salary. Includes extra commissions and expenses. Women and men to appoint agents travel and perform certain work. Write at once to Stafford Press Co, New Haven, Conn.
Walter Garten awarded the contract to dig the Smother's creek ditch with assistance from Jas Wilson of Elmore township and Rikansh Allen of Bogard township. They plan to buy a dredge and all necessary machinery and start on the west side of the S. L. in the Marsh near Hingo, extending to the old canal. Project cost estimated at about $19,000.
A Chicago firm promotes Solid Cuevee Silver as a durable alternative to sterling silver tableware. It claims no wear plating, comparable appearance, greater hardness, and one sixth the price. A free offer to see a twenty five year warranty is available from Quaker Valley Mfg. Co. at Morgan and Harrison Streets.
W. W. McKnight, now permanent with G. D. Abraham, offers sewing machine repair services. A first class workman with good references, he can supply or service machines at reasonable prices. Leave orders at the Abraham Shoe Store.
From the Vindicator of Rutherfordton North Carolina the editor reports two dramatic cures with Chamberlains Pain Balm. A shoulder rheumatism case of ten days' duration eased after two applications with rubbing. A thigh joint rheumatism case eased similarly and allowed sleeping free of pain. Sold by Z Webster.
The Maine State Building will be circular with projecting entrances and Pine Tree State decorations. The design aims to draw attention and win admiration from all visitors to the Exposition.
The Pan American Exposition will spotlight electricity as a major feature with demonstrations of wireless telegraphy X rays electromobiles and telegraphy to moving trains. Exhibits will show electric lighting power and efficiency improvements transforming merchandise production.
The fragment notes the progress of automobile development since the Columbian Exposition in Chicago and predicts Pan-American Exposition displays will surpass past railway, vessel, and vehicle exhibits. It cites 1881 arc light machines and Brush machines as benchmarks for comparison with era improvements. A separate exchange quotes a dramatic dialogue about wealth, status, and intention in love rather than money.
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