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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1901
Page
3
Readable items detail visits and trips of residents from Elmore township and nearby counties. Mentions Dr J Demotte, J L Seal, W Hayes, J G Gantz, Benj Bean, Gunter McDonald preaching, and town socials. Notices reference auctions, a general conference trip, and local shop offerings at Diefendorf and Tolliver Cooper.
The store announces securing the agency for McCall's Bazar patterns best fitting made-10 and side and offers them in stock. Citizens are invited to visit the Grand Hotel for Sunday dinners and allow wives a day of rest.
Will Hewett remains on the sick list. Verda Garten improves. Dr Elrod returns from Indianapolis. Friday visitors include Will Fry and Clark Lamb and wife. Julius Smith and Elisha Stuffle move and travel for business. Local visits by Mary Williams, Chas Miller, Ollie Stout welcomes a newborn girl. Epworth League election night and Seventh Annual Commencement details at Van Buren township schools with diplomas to nine graduates.
Frank Jacobs, who came from Brazil with smallpox, is recovering well at Elmora. Health officers quarantined five people from the same car, including Maud Price, Gertie Toelle, Earl Dobbs, John Hindman, and Thos Nugent Jr, with no current transmissions. Burns city reports some cases but no deaths to date.
Dr A Faith of Washington resides in Arkansas. W C Stahl, a Steele township farmer, travels to Oklahoma to see the land. James F Wood of Painville has pension increased to 17 monthly. A smallpox case reported in Steele township west of Cornettsville. A company formed at Piniuville to build a telephone line to Elnora. work set for summer. A five story brick school will replace an old wood structure in Halves neighborhood Steele township. N A Smoot elected Truant Officer at Washington, to succeed Lee Wadsworth. pay of 2 per day for 180 days. Jacob Clark, Cannerburg saloon keeper, fined for assault and battery and for selling whisky to intoxicated person. total costs 38.25. Smothers Creek ditch bonds of 22500 sold at courthouse. buyers N G Reed and R C Daviss. premium 55. At Elnora, town officers elected: Town Trustees T J Payne, J F P Arvin, Geo Sterake. Treasurer Geo Myers. Marshes I J Pershing. Drake and Jas Dannonh tied 72 votes. a coin toss gave Drake the win.
A Hartford Connecticut druggist A W Sawtelle reports customers praising Chamberlain's Coca Cola Remedies for relief from summer ailments. One Daily observer credits it with saving a life and a customer with colic pains left the store smiling after a dose. Sold by Z Webster.
A brief note advertises a grocery store as clean modern and up to date in every detail for shoppers seeking fresh produce and reliable stocking.
The town election passed quietly with 152 votes cast, about half of eligible voters abstaining. Elected officials include Trustees Ym. Sims Ira Correll Oliver Summers Clerk Ralph Tolliver Treasurer B D Smiley and Marshal Harrison Browning. Ballot tallies show candidates from Peoples and Citizens tickets across wards.
Advertisements offer cash for hides and furs plus bones and metals, and promote DeWitt’s Little Early Risers and Witch Hazel Salve with testimonials. Claims include quick piles cure and kidney cure from various sellers, with remarks on social advice and humor interwoven.
The piece opens with a memorial in verse for Walter F. Correll from his mother, lamenting his early departure to a celestial realm. The rest includes short notices praising Foless Kidney Cure and Unbaumberlain’s remedies, plus miscellaneous local ads and innocuous observations.
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