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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1911
Page
8
Local notes report births with George Walker and Dennis Clark welcoming sons. Neighbors and relatives visit and call on households from Odon to Firview. Church attendance at Shiloh noted alongside numerous social visits and a prompt for framing photos at Callahan's Drug Store.
D Gantz and Son W T Alexander and Payne Bros will add new brick rear rooms to their stores. Gantz and Son’s nearing completion will be used as a wall paper and storage room. Alexander and Payne Bros will use theirs as ware and storage rooms. Payne Bros will tear away the old frame building at the rear improving Spring street appearance.
After April 1, 1911 the company will charge 40 cents per 100 feet for custom sawing of logs not exceeding 16 feet in length and 50 cents per 100 feet for logs longer than 16 feet.
Let us figure with you on your papering for spring. We have a new line of paper for every room in your home. See it before you buy. Callahan's Drug Store.
A playful exchange from a sentimental maiden and ardent suitor about love ends with a joke about catering. The page quotes a maxim from Miss Bowdler remarking that sincere effort to do good yields more than imagined.
A local note lists preaching at the place Saturday night and both Sunday services led by Rev. T. J. Alford. Numerous visits and guest sightings recur, including Miss Axie Howard of Odon, Miss Mary Long, and families of Boardman, Sears, Wikle, Arney, and McClellan. An allusions to a charity event at John Shake’s and a critical reflecting verse on the saloon closes the item.
Announcement that stock of hardware will go to Mr Alonzo W Caughey forming Kecks and Caughey with a liberal share of patronage requested. Mr Caughey is described as the oldest hardware man in Oden.
The Mi. EE church held Sunday evening sermons on Home with last week's focus on the crown of the home. This Sunday's topic is The beauty of Home. Sunday school at 9 30 with E T Laughlin as superintendent and preaching at 10 30 on Seven stages of the seed. Eng T Lewis will preach at Good Hope at 2 30 in the afternoon.
Mr and Mrs Ed Boyd returned home from Martin county due to Mrs Boyd s brother Dean Roberts serious illness. Union Chapel held a special meeting closing with about thirty additions to the church. Harve Sheets is very ill with pneumonia fever. School closed here Tuesday. A suppers dinner was given by the patrons. An old fashioned spelling be held in the evening. Mrs Sarah Wallick and Mrs Mary Phipps of Farlin visited Nora Connell Wednesday. Miss Grace Carpenter and Miss Wilmina Scholz were here Tuesday and Tuesday night.
State of Indiana Daviess county Daviess circuit court February Term 1911. Thomas IF Young Seal Mattingly and Myers attorneys.
The Township Trustee of Madison Township will transact township business every day except Sunday. Office in Qodon.
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