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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1896
Page
3
A prior customer note from Younes announces moving the shop to Peastogrer Ferthingw on Wess Main Serect and expanding stock to lunches, beverages, school supplies, and assorted goods. He thanks patrons and promises improved service and value.
A damaged notice describes a dubious tonic claim sold by W. L. Ssuy to treat fever and illness. The text touts rapid relief and warding off attacks with false claims of cures and regional names, reflecting a period patent remedy ad.
Local notes report visits from families including Mrs Fred Meleheimer and Mr and Mrs Levi Dunlap to Elnora. Danner & Toelle advertise sales on dress goods, coats, and trimmings with bargains. Dishes, groceries, and millinery offered by Hayes McWilliams and Cash Grocery Store. protracted church meeting and sunrise service noted.
The Epworth League hosts a basket social at Crooke's Hall Tuesday night with all ages invited. Proceeds will benefit the local M E Church.
Lee Johnsay of Elnora married last Sunday to Miss Elizia Wilson by squire Hastings. Dan Hayes Albert Burrell and George Frees improve iron yards by grading, urging others to follow. Grant Faith returns to city law office with Zin Faith. Merrell Klinlman wedding attendees listed including George D Daniel Mabel Nora Robert Abraham Leo Montgomery Ida Mathews Bert Dearmin Neilie Bennett Wilbert Burrell Walter Crooke.
The notice lists several transfer or correspondence pairings including Lee Johnson addressed to Eliza Wilson, Mark Rutherford to Arriva Lucas, Meredith D Holloway to Jane Elsie, and others such as Pius J Evin to Della Crets and William Wood to Charlotte Choves with additional exchanges involving Austin Hedrick and Violet Winninger.
M. W. Stoner offers Garland stoves and ranges praised for quality and beauty with full warranties. Visit or call for hardware needs and to see the line.
Mr. George Webster of the Gantz & Webster drug firm will travel to Indianapolis next week to purchase a full range of Complete and Big Holiday Stock of Fancy Goods. A full line of Children’s, Ladies and Gentlemen’s Holiday Presents will be bought and sold at fair prices. Remember us when buying.
Marion Myers known as Mate shot himself in his father's house after emotional distress over a love disappointment. Coroner's verdict cites personal safety wound from a pistol. Mate was thirty, a Republican and local glee club member. A handwritten farewell note to his father is described among brief town notices and local updates.
The Supreme Court has affirmed Judge Hefron's ruling in a peculiar will dispute involving Christuen Gingerich an elderly Amish man. The will left land to his wife and to his son Peter with a lifetime care clause for the mother. After the wife and husband died the court ruled Peter owned the land, not the other eight heirs.
Indianapolis cyclists ride tandem through Tuesday while a sick man named Uncle John Hyatt appears. Names linked to Cincinnati Louisville Bloomsfield Canton Martinsville Springs Shoals Petersburg and Arkansas appear amid notes on opera football church activities and political shifts.
Aaron and Bill Bechtel plastered a Greene county house this week. The Mumma Bros sold their engine to Peer Gingerich. A wedding is planned here. Farmers are busy gathering corn. Charles Pew and wife visited in Martin county Sunday. Willie Letherwood spent time with a big one in Odvdon. Miss Mary Feller, teacher at No. 10, gave a spelling lesson Wednesday night.
Dr Miles Medical Co Elkhart Ind guarantees Nervine will benefit customers from the first bottle. D.r Miles products sold by druggists at 3 bottles for 5 dollars or prepaid by mail on receipt of price. Restores health efforts promoted by the company.
The missive surveys local weather, hunting luck, and shoppers. It notes brick pavements failing, Christmas preparations, strawberries in California, oysters for Thanksgiving, and Santa Claus toys. The piece mentions war rumors and a projected troop movement of 140 officers and privates from Spain.
Mr Ilagh V Merrell and Miss Lulu D Hindman Kintdman were united in marriage at the bride’s Lyons residence by Rev. Pinnick of the ME Church. The ceremony drew friends and relatives, with a large supper after, and the couple plan to reside in Oden after visiting Merrell’s Patricksburg parents.
Canton dispatches confirm Marcus A Hanna will be the next Secretary of the Treasury and Henry C Payne of Wisconsin is slated as Postmaster General. Shelby M Hullom of Minds is named for a second cabinet post, but the exact position remains unclear.
Tuesday night 46 residents from Fredonia and nearby towns gathered at the Westport U B Parsonage to surprise Rev. L. L. Schoonover and family with a donation of five dollars or more. The event included a song service and prayer, ending in enjoyment. Westport Independent.
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