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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1906
Page
7
F Waldo Hargrave of Jasonville Indiana wrote a song titled The Lost Child the proceeds to aid in finding little Richmond Byers. The song will be sold for 25 cents with all funds directed to the search and newspapers initiated a statewide fund drive.
A local man recounts a drunken escapade after long hours in a drug store. He stumbles home with head spinning and feet tangled, imagining sobriety while believing he is in the bedroom. His wife finally calls him to order with a sharp rebuke.
The Uelson Township Cooperative Company votes to part with cable assets to improve the local central office. Committee members George Ow, Thos Wirte and A M Keok oversee the decision with advertisers.
A humorous old admonition advises residents facing the assessor to feign ignorance about dogs. It suggests answering with exaggerated family ties and tears to avoid taxation, trusting the assessor will believe the tale. The passage mocks annual pretense and self-deception in tax season.
E. L. Cheek of Washington chosen as Marshal for Mitchell. Bedford plans to enlarge its corporate boundaries adding new territory. Eleventh district U M W A officers re-elected at Terre Haute. A hundred citizens sign call for a mass convention to discuss incorporation for Bicknell.
W A Staples of Indianapolis has finished plans for a $15,000 plus upgrade to the Cabel and Kauffman department store in Washington. A new two story building will replace the shoe shop, fronts will merge into one, the largest show window in the area will be added, an electric passenger elevator and two freight cars will be installed, new fixtures and a women’s resting room will be provided, and after work the stores will gain 10,000 square feet of extra floor space.
Marsh Store’s Ast Boardman visited Bellview Thursday night. Dozens of locals from Elnora Odon Plainville Eaglesville and nearby areas stopped by or passed through this week. Visitors include Misses Harman Gardner Parsely and Taylor and families Drummond Bynum Courtney and Stalcup with several others en route to friends or relatives.
M O Pate reports news items. Wap Westfall attended United Mine Workers convention in Terre Haute representing local camp. Louis Dages of Van Buren township visited on business. Modern Woodmen festival netted about thirty one dollars for the order. Pearl Harper ill at her father Charles Harper's home. Mrs Laura Cunningham, wife of Jas L Cunningham, is sick. Harvey Riggins and D B Wadsworth attended festival business in Odon. Mrs Anna Hattery visits from Chicago. Mrs Cassie Swayze visits sister Marion Matthews family from Saturday to Monday.
County assessors seek payment for full seventy five days claiming overtime in March to May work. They argue Sundays were the only non workdays subtracted, and deserve compensation for extra hours plus full estimates of property categories listed in the reading.
The village of Wheatland Knox county faces a legal challenge as remonstrants block the plan to incorporate. Incorporators claim residents lack protections from law violators while remonstrants argue the new town is too small and taxes would rise. The case may go to the Knox circuit court. The text notes the Eiffel Tower at 990 feet and Washington Monument at 555 feet as unrelated facts.
Illustrated map and booklet advertise the location of gold mines that have produced over 200 million dollars and other mining data. Promoted by Barclay Block of Denver Colorado to inform investors and readers about the San Juan mining country, billed as the world’s richest gold field.
The county farms advance from old methods to modern farming as young farmers improve upon their fathers work and Mother Earth yields abundant crops.
Chas Turk was at Washington Saturday while George Ellis came from Sugarland Tuesday. Francis Brown recently moved south of Washington and visited Monday for business. John Mudd and Mrs. Dixson Carroll went to Washington Saturday. Two more weeks of school at the Hinkle. Arley Leonard moved near Washington. Rev. Hill preached at Otterbein Chapel Sunday. Miss Onie Keith of Sugarland visited Saturday and Sunday with sister Miss Earon Patterson. Mr and Mrs J J Patterson visited Thomas Santa of Sugarland Sunday. Bert Wallace and John Baker came from near Cumback Saturday. Mr and Mrs Ed Hixson of near Boon were in town Saturday.
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