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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1906
Page
7
Community items list visits and hosting by Worthington Roughly includes residents from Worthington Newberry Mooresville Odon Washington Scotland Glen dale Eaglesville Plainville and Indianapolis. Social events include a Thimble Club meeting a birthday party and stock company performances with regional travel and legal notes on witnesses and a prohibitionist district committeeman.
RAGLESVILLE NEWS reports visitors from Terre Haute and east Van Buren at local homes over the weekend. rainfall eases drought, lifting farmer spirits, with baptisms at the Prairie creek mud hole and health concerns for Jas Holland. local losses include a valued draft mule. a Brown township man survives a suicide attempt with help from his son.
Farmers in the area near through planting corn. Many local youths attended Burns City commencement Saturday night. Mr and Mrs John Merifield visited C S Plummers Sunday. J H Walls traveled to Odon Tuesday. Andrew Myers returns from Illinois where he worked. Mrs Lurinda Miller passed through Saturday toward Frank Bowmans. Dellos Bowman is dangerously ill. Ben Kazier and wife visited C S Plummers Sunday.
Miss Ethel Carrico visits Mollie Ryan of Loogootee while George Wade of Washington returns home to his parents. Ethel Carrico and Mollie Ryan visit Agnes Wade. Mrs. David Wade attends Kate Duffy’s funeral in Washington. Wade family members attend a Plainville visit and a barn lightning incident injures Join Tomey Bennie and Stephen Wade. Joe and Chas Wade attend a dance at Cannerburg.
The Creamery reports rising business as weekly milk intake grows. Readouts show Thursday 1967 pounds, Friday 1860, Saturday 1792, Monday 2618, Tuesday 2525, and Wednesday 2341 pounds. Demand remains strong despite higher butter prices due to superior quality.
Our town has never enjoyed such a trade as it has during the past season. Goods are sold cheaper here than in any town of this size in the state and people from adjoining counties are traveling to do heavy trading.
Classified ad offers an opportunity for an active agent with an established health and accident insurer. Compensation includes two years for accident and three years for sickness, with death benefits and other liberal terms. Apply to Health, 1114 Chamber of Commerce, Detroit, Michigan.
Wiscon sin law allows counties to fund half the cost of grading and paving main traveled highways in towns that vote to cover half the expense. Counties may levy to cover up to one mile per year at up to 1000 dollars per mile and designate two county members to work with town boards on bids and inspections.
An unusual number of members attended the Rebekah lodge session on Tuesday evening. Initiatory work was conferred on Mr. and Mrs. Wm Harris with Burns City lodge members present. Grand Assembly delegates reported lodge growth from 539 to 562 with members rising from 42 839 to 43 451. Greensburg homes now complete with eight guests, all well cared for. Yearly expenditures total 37 146.59 with a balance on hand of 1 464 97.
Lola D Overton daughter of Frank L Overton was born June 30 1893 and died May 22 1906 at age 12 years 10 months 22 days. Funeral at home conducted by Rev W E Snyder with Sunday school attendance and music. Interment at Walnut Hill cemetery leaves a father sister and two brothers.
Congressman W P Brownlow of Tennessee argues in Colliers Weekly that national aid to highway construction is a practical business plan. He says better roads would let farmers market products year round, greatly lowering urban living costs and reducing discontent.
Aรัฐn op-ed argues bad roads push farmers to rush harvests, lowering prices and fueling strikes. It links road quality to market access, consumer costs, and social cohesion, suggesting systematic highway improvements would stabilize prices, reduce shortages, and strengthen civilization.
A Virginia bill proposes a tax on wagons carrying heavy loads to fund road repairs. The Good Roads Magazine suggests a graded wide tire ordinance as an alternative, noting wide tires act as roadmakers rather than road breakers and may reduce road wear with possible tax incentives.
Sunday School at 9 30. Morning services adjourned for Memorial services at the U B Church. Junior at 2 p m. Evening services by Hey Ha orney ios The Conver sign.
The department of agriculture through the office of public roads will build one mile of modern road in each of six states next summer. The government provides machinery and expert supervision. local authorities supply material and unskilled labor.
Cheshire county council debated motor dust issues. Councilor Pedley reported dust laying experiments found no method efficient. C B Davies cited a cure seen in Droitwich, describing it as small scale salt splashes.
Farmers along the proposed thirty mile Speedway path from Pennlington to a northern corridor contribute inferior land and sell better land cheaply to aid construction. Officials foresee a real estate boom as wealthy buyers seek cottage sites and country homes near the new route.
Notice of a court ordered public sale by a commissioner arising from the Daviess Circuit Court case 11 714 Zachariah T Garten et al v Austin S Waggener et al The sale will occur on the premises and terms involve expenses and enforcement of the order The document also includes a separate classified ad seeking an assistant manager for a Chicago wholesale and mail order house offering monthly salary and expense advance positions requiring no investment or experience and requests inquiries with a self addressed envelope
A fragmentary note from Fla reports on a load described as ninety tens of a mixture of shell and coral. The source mentions a harbor and references Pensa cola, with unclear context about fine road metal and material composition.
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