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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1903
Page
3
The item reports a series of social visits, family travels, and church activities in Elnora and surrounding areas. It lists guests from Terre Haute and Williams Cob, Thanksgiving plans, a protracted meeting next Sunday, and local people visiting relatives. It notes business changes including a real estate agent’s trip and a furniture partnership formation.
The item lists fresh roasted peanuts at Gwartney's and Ziba Webster leaving on business to Linton and Bloomfield. It notes gumming and filing at Dicks & McNeely, a car load of New Harrison wagons for Jolliff & Co, and various residents traveling for winter in Phenix Arizona. It describes court adjournment, real estate sale plans, and a Gas Stock Company performance at the opera house with praise for the cast and audience reception.
A sales lady for the Voieht Cream Flake Co will serve Voieht Flake free at our store Thursday Friday Saturday December 3 4 and 5. All customers gentlemen and ladies are invited. A Diefendorf
A woman described as Mrs Mary Moore was carrying a shovel full of burning coals when the child she was with was severely burned. The incident occurred in an unspecified location with no further details available.
A fragmented Thanksgiving piece notes heavy drinking on the roads, church services led by Rev. A M Couchinin and Rev. A M Couchman, and a sermon linking national greatness to Protestant faith. It mentions local sermons, a poem added at Epworth League, and civic concerns about alcohol regulation.
A farmer in Hiseddon township boarded a northbound passenger train from Carlile last Saturday morning. Two strangers lured him into a social card game, betting five dollars then ten on the farmer’s hand. The farmer held a ten dollar bill as the strangers hid two fives and won. A struggle over the money followed with the farmer attempting to hold on to his funds.
The building board and pastor of the U B church plan a pew brick church on the old grounds. Construction will start once funds are secured. The site is described as a prime church lot, and the community looks forward to the new building.
Nice worded wedding note reports the Brill and Killion families involved. The groom Brill is described as a pleasant person and radio man. The bride, daughter of Mrs Laura Killion and granddaughter of the late Alex Killion, is part of the Killion family.
The Knights of Pythias lodge will hold a roll call meeting on a December evening. All current good standing members and former members are invited to attend for a social evening with refreshments and a jovial atmosphere.
Sailors claim a simple test uses a bright silver coin boiled with baited water. If the coin keeps its natural color the fish is fit to eat. if the coin darkens the food is rejected.
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