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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1895
Page
3
An old ad fragment markets Hayes and Me Williams offering footwear and apparel. It promises good pricing and value on shoes boots slippers and winter underwear with a bold claim of more for the money than competitors.
Storm Monday night demolished the hlon Milling Co's stock. Thanksgiving services are noted at the Mo E Church and other churches. Local events include sermons, visits, spice of entertainment, and plans for a Christmas Eve supper and a Christmas tree for the poor.
Creditors are urged to call Luther Sears or Clark Davis to settle debts owed to Dr Barton Sears' estate. Prompt payment is requested.
Special notice informs that indebted to Penrod and Winklepleck, recent proprietors of the Odon Jewelry Store, will find their accounts at this office and are asked to call and settle as pronto as possible.
In the sunny south land two crops a year and lands selling cheap in Georgia and South Carolina. For terms and maps contact David Garey, Real Estate Broker, West Shoals, Indiana.
Heffernan and Mattingly announce a new complete abstract and title service for all lands in Daviess County. They offer thorough abstracts and perfect titles even if existing titles are defective, with strong facilities for abstracting in Washington Indiana.
The Journal from Odon covers Thanksgiving visits by Carl Bell of Montgomery and Mrs. Garten in Chicago, church lectures in Plainville, marriages licensed for John Soutella and Aimimita M Hannah among others, and various local happenings. It notes wind damage, school and teacher activities, a Madison township Teachers Institute program, and upcoming county Institute events.
Neighborhood items include Doley Jacobs now living in Odon and Mrs Dagley ill with La Grippe. Miss Allie Bicknell visited Sandborn while R D Brown plans a move to Indianapolis. Lillie Willis returned from Washington trip and C E Dittemore did Elliston business. St E wa and Adventists hold sunrise prayer.
William J. Danner and Frederick W. J. Noelle are noted as young, capable partners in local commerce. Danner's rise from school teacher to drug store clerk and jeweler to mercantile success is highlighted. Noelle, a Clay County native and former farmer, partnered in a hardware shop and now runs a general merchandise store with Abraham & Kinnema.
The tale details Captain John Lyter and John Miller of Fairview Kentucky forming a marriage purchase pact. Miller’s wife Martha would be sold for cash and goods valued at $69 total. After three months Martha ran away with Lyter’s nephew, who was disinherited in a new will. Martha now asks to return from Cincinnati, calling the previous flight a joke as Lyter invites her back.
A mix of short clippings reports on a child’s death attributed to a poetical assassin near Lower Suddenham Road in England and a molten glass spill at Marion Glassworks that threatened disaster, plus a New York ad office quip, a Richmond Kentucky cow incident injuring a man, a distant whistle at Pearl Lumber, and a stray line about a well known doctor’s practice.
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