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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1904
Page
2
A sale ad offers 34 50 shoes at $2.50 and men heavy plow shoes at $1.25. Ladies blucher style shoes $2.00. New queensware sets and a 46 piece dinner set for $5.00. Holland ware cups and saucers 12 pieces for $1.00. Children's 10¢ hose double knee and ribbed. Men's work shirts 50¢.
The Odon Journal notes subscription details and local items from Odon Indiana. Reports on railway prospects, a death by heart disease, and letters issue, plus civic changes in Linton and Sandboro robberies. Mentions dynamiting hits, free mail delivery demand, and a factory rebuild plan in Washington.
Wilson C Myers editor urges residents to improve town cleanliness by burning rubbish hauling ash heaps tidying lumber and trash piles and spending a few hours cleaning yards alleys and streets to make the city pretty and attractive.
A fiery editorial argues believers must settle debts to support the church. It condemns evasion with excuses like statute of limitations and honest exemption. Readers are urged to read, own up, and pay, lest church members lack moral standing or face judgment.
Oliver Pugh, implicated in a hold up case, died Thursday following an appendicitis operation. His remains were moved to Newark for burial Friday. He faced a judgment from 1 to 14 years at the last term and had served over two months in confinement. The report comes from Bloomfield, Indiana, with reference to the Southern Railroad Commission.
The Steele township Democrats met at Plainville and nominated Charles McWilliams for trustee Oscar Albright for assessor Thomas Flinn for justice of the peace and Jobe Bailey for constable in the upcoming election.
A speaker extols women as pure and godly, condemning men who lack respect as devoid of principles. The text contrasts manmade clay with woman made of flesh and bone, praising true, modest womanhood and denouncing brazen behavior. It asserts women are a higher, sensitive moral law in society.
At Longoetee Saturday J Alvin Padgeit was nominated for Judge and Fabe Gwiot of Shoals was nominated for Prosecutor by acclamation as neither candidate faced opposition.
In anticipation of trouble from drunkenness the Ef era town board has repaired the old lock up. Last used by Duglas Tyler he freed himself by kicking out one end. The town hopes other animals housed there will not find escape easy. Martha Zeigler traveled to Washington on Monday for a short visit.
The NYT recounts a tale of a wife who advocates food fitting the consumer. Her husband, left to improvise, eats a cereal and ends up consuming the wife’s window garden with petunia nasturtium and pansy seeds. The anecdote highlights domestic food experiments and humorous consequences.
Jefferson county reports a Watertown woman found her house empty of furniture left behind before May 20. A neighbor had secretly borrowed the goods after finding the empty home and stored them at his place. He returned the furniture and paid the owner $10 for use, illustrating a case where housekeeping differs from furniture keeping.
A jeweler built a 15 inch clock designed to run forty years with no winding. He calculated a likely life of about four decades and limited winding to two minutes daily, completing a one of a kind timepiece reported by the New York Herald.
The county enumeration of school children for this year is complete. It lists the totals by town and township with figures for each area and overall counts.
In Washington Indiana and Huntingburg supporters debate moral and social order. A Petersburg Press note complains about saloons and law enforcement gaps, urging reforms to curb vice and reduce crime temptations while describing local governance as underutilized.
A Seattle firm reports Alaska bears weighing 1500 to 1800 pounds are killing cattle and breeding ewes near Kodiak. Packers claim 300 cattle and 9100 ewes were sent there last spring. Six sheep killings noted, with 12 bears slain in the past month. The U S marshal halted bear killings. packers face trials and costs. Senator Foster seeks relief including a bounty of 5 per head to curb the bears.
Amid a furious October rainstorm the automobile endurance run from New York to Pittsburgh endured four brutal days. Bath New York reporters found telegraph wires down and roads washed out, yet a lone car kept moving toward Corning despite bridges gone and no trains running. The tale underscored the American automobile’s hard practical service in adversity.
An American on a crowded car brushed two well dressed Mexican gentlemen. After tense words the two men, aboard with him, believed an insult was intended and warned of a duel. A passerby interpreter later clarified the misunderstanding.
Sunday evening at 6 30 in the parlor of the Grand Hotel Mr Ray Browning and Miss Pearl Cummings were united in marriage. The ceremony was performed by Rev John Breden Jr and witnessed by relatives and hotel guests. Refreshments of the wedding cake followed. The couple reside in Odon and are well regarded locally. Browning is the son of Mr and Mrs Harrion Browning. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Tha Odiumings, proprietors of the Grand Hotel.
A historical note recounts the establishment of the Good Hope Sunday School in early spring 798s with fourteen organizers. It lists superintendent Friedrich Shaffer and other officers, mentions its meeting at Boyd's school house Ohio chapel, and notes spinoff schools at Ossie chapel Pleasant Hill Mud Pike Clarkshure and Cindhrie's soberth. It lists founding members and calls for subscribers to report missed issues.
The Frisco System adds tourist sleeping cars and special reduced rates on one way and round trips to the southwest. Depart St Louis 8:35 p.m. on December 16 1903 and every first and third Tuesday after, with return to St Louis on Mondays. Reservations via local or district representatives RK Wishart Sayler and Bennett Laughlin.
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