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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1900
Page
2
The town of Odon in Daviess county presents as a compact community of about 600 residents. It lies twenty miles northeast of Washington along the Kern Indiana Railroad, boasting electric light, several churches, a six room school building, coal mines within four miles, a Normal School, and surrounding rich agricultural lands.
The Journal marks its tenth year serving Oden with pride. The note praises the city’s growth and the paper’s role in upbuilding the adopted home as residents and teachers receive warm wishes from the publication.
A Seattle Post Intelligencer note suggests Democratic papers will loudly criticize a 10 cent rise in linseed oil, while keeping quiet about a higher price of 4 dollars per bushel for guaxre aimed at farmers.
The Indianapolis Journal notes the largest elector majority for a president, citing Monroe Pierce Grant records. It adds newly elected legislators discuss a new primary law, with the Marion county delegation backing the measure amid chemical and other concerns.
A Springfield Ohio farmer Jonas Silverman was swindled out of 1500 by sharpers on a train near Vaparoiso. Two suspects later returned rich from the Klondike and paid him back. A shooting at J B Seipple Co railroad camp near Loogootee left one dead Mahlon Richardson and Benjamin Pleasant captured in Shoals for trial. About twenty Black men were involved.
An Indiana newspaper fragment weaves a satirical tale of Colonel Anderson defending Governor Brown at a Yale dinner while a long debate unfolds on rural roads. It compares gravel and stone roads, argues for local experts over engineers, and recalls election fervor and county politics with sketches of candidates and voting oddities from the era.
The ditch project faces delay as Madison Bogard and Steele township commissioners contend it is unconstitutional. If the court upholds them, construction halts. if not, work proceeds. The protracted affair has stirred strong ill feelings among residents of the involved townships. Christmas gift idea The Youths Companion offers a year subscription with a 1901 Painted Wariten Girl Calendar and free remaining 1900 issues upon new subscriptions.
Dr. Humphreys 77 breaks up a cold by restoring the blood flow at the first sign of illness. It acts directly on the disease without affecting other parts of the body and leaves no after effects. The small pleasant pellets fit a vest pocket and cost 25 cents at druggists. Humphreys Homeo Medicine Co. New York mails free book.
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