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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1904
Page
3
Local items report visits and travels of residents including Christenberry in Elora and Gleman Alvhe in Lyon, Mrs Ferd Baser in Elnora, and others. Mentions a horse show next Tuesday and Wednesday, dinners at Ragsville, and trips to Washington, Shoals, Kinora, and Nebraska. Nearby residents and families are noted with frequent out-of-town movements and social calls.
A Tuesday family reunion of the John C. McArtor clan from Northern Martin County gathered at Emanuel Hamerickhouse south of town. Nine children were known, eight living, with members in Nebraska and several Martin, Daviess, and Is a counties. A group photo was taken after long at home. A sale of two horses and a few cattle was discussed with local buyers and a jeweler offering a swap under a signed guarantee.
Merited Mrs Charles Davis of Wreathand and her husband celebrate the birth of a baby daughter after twenty three years of marriage. Mr Davis is years old while his wife is credited with the recent arrival.
Dr Stephen Brittian died Thursday at his home in Loogoatee after a brief illness. He was a prominent local figure and father of Theona Brittain and Mrs Harry Martin now residing at New Castle. Funeral services were held Sunday and conducted by the Masonic order of that place.
Claude Sipes, a high school student, broke his collar bone Tuesday afternoon during football practice near Grove street. He tackled Klood Rush, struck the curb, and was taken to De T B Rank's office for treatment. He will miss little school and miss no games at Elnora Saturday.
A miscellaneous local roundup notes pastoral changes and search for a permanent cur. Diefendorf & Barkley advertise potatoes. Arthur Phipps sent to Greene County Tuesday. M B Ledgerwood at Elmore Monday. Mrs Phoebe Briner and daughter Lydia Taylor visit from Colorado. Leota Ogden and children in town from North End. Miss Nett visits Giscone County. Jacob Rester family and Nasey Bechtel visit W H Bechtel on Sunday. Claude Sipes injured playing football at Oden Tuesday. Mrs Desty Phipps and Mrs Polly Darnell visit Bedford relatives. Miss Mars Sral visits Miss Ol Lee. Letters from Emery Montgomery describe Honolulu visits with Sanford B Dele’s family and early Hawaiian republic era figures including a U S judge. He traveled Yokohama, Tokio, Yokohawa, and Kobe with plans to Nagasaki. Duck coats.
Raglesville reports Swayze taken suddenly Saturday and Jacobs ill with neuralgia of the heart yet improving. J A Overton, mine owner and coal dealer, on sick list since Sunday. Harry Pate, son of Mr and Mrs J L Pate, with typhoid fever, no better. Join B Pate cut a deep gash in foot Monday while chopping wood. A Connor fell from an apple tree.
C. O. Buchanan has resigned as pastor of the Christain church due to cancer. After trying specialists he initially declined but later began to improve and some thought he might be cured.
Dr J Mierty warns TocHanapans Sun that black smallpox is spreading rapidly with three deaths in Benton county including Princeton and a case in Terre Haute. He warns the uncleanly are at risk and a serious epidemic is probable if the disease continues.
The column lists local happenings including M O Pate nursing a baseball sized injury, Mrs Maidie Wadsworth visiting relatives from Indianapolis, the Trueblood family visiting, A J Stuffe selling groceries to son E B Stuffle, Grover Pate visiting from Terre Haute, and a festival described as a great success. It also mentions teachers thanking the public, and notes about diminishing oat and hay consumption due to steam engines replacing horses, referencing the Liverpool Post's remark on railway impact.
The article recalls the Liverpool to Manchester railway opening and initial service levels. It notes Lime Street incomplete at first, schedules of three and two trains per day, later expanded to six first and six second class trains on weekdays, two of each on Sundays, and a 31 mile journey taking almost two hours. Initial speed complaints and expectations of future speed increases are discussed.
Wayne MacVeagh adjourned the Supreme Court before 4 pm to catch the 4 o'clock train to Philadelphia. He halted arguments at 3:45, asking the court to move that the court adjourn, then departed for home. The chief justice complied without protest as he headed to his train.
The text questions a servant's honesty and trustworthiness, noting a couple’s concern about employing a girl. It mentions a discussion with Brown and a lingering uncertainty about how to proceed, with references to a doctor, a romance, and daily routines surrounding meals and breakfast.
A fragmented quote mentions Wardappy and a bizarre scene in a parlor with a curiosities display. The passage cites a critic and a sly remark about faith in critics, alongside a quoted line from a mall or machine.
A quirky column describes a topsy turvy day by turns. One man seeks justice while another flees it, saving for a house and selling assets for less than cost. The piece contrasts marriage schemes, divorce plots, travel, illness, and death in a satirical snapshot.
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