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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1906
Page
3
Fragmented OCR shows wants and notices for sales and rentals. Mentions Journal office, HarRseEss Stock, Rice, Marlin, Laclede, Illinois town, and a proposal for a dentist position needing good references.
The second annual corn show will be held by the Indiana Corn Growers Association in connection with the corn school at Purdue University. Prizes and premiums will be offered across five sections to encourage statewide exhibitor participation and highestquality corn samples. Interested parties should contact G. J. Christie, Secretary, Lafayette, Indiana, for circulars.
Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment I C O F of Indiana announce rail travel to Indianapolis. Southern Indiana Ry will sell tickets at one fare plus 25 cents, with dates November 19 and 20 and return limit November 23 1906.
Names of visitors and locals frequenting Elnora and nearby towns this week include Curt and Grover Matthewson in Clay City Miss Mary Critchlow visiting friends in Elnora Mrs Mary Ooen from Mt. Rose Colorado visiting in Elnora Emil Pope of Mitchell J R Pope and family Mrs J M Myers of Bedford Wm Pope of Linton with John Pope and wife in east Elnora Clarence Sears Washington high school senior visited his parents Milford Peden Sandborn and Louis Hoghland in Linton Avery Bobbitt and Joe Yatel in Backburn Jt H Beever in Jasonville Walter Whiteman in Odon Whit Fox from Newberry in town Joe Bobbitt of Bedford and Bob Mount in Bedford.
Southern Indiana Railway offers one fare plus 23 cents for trips from Oden to Indianapolis and return for the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons event. Tickets on November 19 to 22 with return by November 23, 1908.
The Jamestown Ter-Centennial commemorates America's 300th anniversary with an elaborate naval military educational and industrial celebration. President Rover will press the electric opening button on April 26 signaling the formal start of the event attracting thousands of visitors.
The Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition will run April 26 to November 30, 1907 on Hampton Roads near Norfolk Portsmouth and Newport News to celebrate the founding of Jamestown and three centuries of American growth. The event includes a grand naval pageant with ships from many nations, an international military encampment, and extensive exhibits across more than 400 acres with dozens of palaces and a 2000 foot pleasure pier.
An article explains pectoral fins on both sides behind the head aid swimming and equilibrium. It notes some fish lose fins due to disease or accident, giving the striped bass example where diseased fin tissue was removed and the fish adapted, though it initially veered.
The article argues Switzerland's public schools are among the best and largely compulsory. Private schooling is restricted across cantons, Solothurn bans it outright, and other cantons require permits or funds contributions. Schools are seen as democratic nurseries, with strong state supervision and penalties for nonattendance, including jail. A Seventh Day Adventist was jailed for refusing Saturday schooling.
The piece notes a prophetic misreading of horse supply and prices by 1906, while the current market shows record highs and strong demand. It reports on Breeder's Gazette sources, the German coach stallion Arnulf owned by a New York stock company, and Texas and Vermont horse groups pushing for better breeding standards and Morgan horse development.
The House passed a bill authorizing the secretary of the interior to withdraw up to 3500 acres from entry and lease it for ten years in Stanley County for the exclusive purpose of maintaining a native buffalo herd. The bill aims to allow Interior to lease land to Philp who seeks to establish his own herd of native buffalo, exceeding 100 head.
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