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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1917
Page
2
Special notice to troop members to remain in the troop for the coming year. Registration and fee due by April seventeenth to stay in good standing and receive headquarters supplies. Scouts must see the scout master for entering date and transfer options for those unable to meet troop attendance.
A fragment from a San Froncisco eNxaminers contest asks why a cow has two stomachs. A quip by Kitt Mark Scher of Fraustvalle links the idea to a cow having a second stomach to ease an ache in the first.
A roundup recalls political editorials on the Philippine and Porto Rican questions. Local convention dates are noted for the Madison township Republican nominating event and officers sought. Deaths include John Hindman near Bushrod at eighty, Elizabeth Bracken, and Joseph Sommers at Good Hope church. Local changes: Will Taylor buys half share in Randalls Jarvis’ saloon. Kinnamans purchase a farm near Shiloh. a house fire on Bunkum. April Fool warning and a review of D W Griffiths Intolerance premier at Grand Opera House in Washington.
A twenty by eight foot map in the White House shows the world with colors for twelve great powers. Submarine cables railways steamship routes and naval and military forces are traced with miniature flags. United States forces are marked with commanders names and moving positions.
On Achill Mayo the native uses peat fires in sod huts for six weeks to soot potatoes. The smoky atmosphere, common in MTI rise cabins, yields preserved potatoes and sustains life in tilled fields where turf is abundant and fires cost little.
A three century old grandfather clock, owned by A R Simpson of Saginaw Michigan, remains in near perfect time. The timepiece has passed down through the Simpson family with a vow to keep it running, and recent minor repairs followed a broken cord.
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