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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1903
Page
3
John Carress of Elcora. Jesse Atchley goes to Jasonville. George Abraham to Washington on Monday. Mate Myers from Epsom. Wm. Sims to Glendale. J. P. Taylor to Washington. Noah Fisher to Washington. Mrs Elkanah Allen and Miss May West visit and return. Rev J F Boyd returns from Washington. several local residents return from Arkansas timber land purchase and moves planned. Halloween warnings and advice to prevent property damage and maintain order.
Rebecca Williams died October 24 at her Eaglesville home aged 84 14. She was born near Ashville North Carolina October 10 1819. Married Sterling Williams January 12 1836. six of nine children surviving Hiram Mrs Wo Flinn Sarah J Blough William David Ziba. 45 grandchildren 65 great grandchildren. Funeral at her home conducted by Rev C H Buchanan and Rev J T Hobson. Burial in Baglysville cemetery. Also Elizabeth Deal four died of diphtheria. funeral pending.
Community notes record visits and loose social calls. J D Laughlin and Gill Laughlin family members visited in Olon, while Mr and Mrs J M Stotts and Mr and Mrs Earl Kelsey attended Washington on Monday. Other locals include Zeta Dobson, James Letterwood, B Fisher, E Forsythe, and Mel Johnson visiting Seth Ketchem’s or at home.
Albert Feller and James Burriss drill for coal on Anderson Overton’s lot south of town. Miss Efi Casey visited Terre Haute. H D Casey works at Washington stores. Dewey Spracue returned from Jasonville. Miss Lelsh Karr visited Lovertee home. Roads dusty. rain needed. Burriss back from Allen County farm work. Epsom All Team beat Royal 11 to 10 at Epsom. next game likely here Sunday. Institute Saturday at Razlesville school. George Chritchlow and wife from Odon visited. Miss Flossie Winkleplesk from Odon attended the festival. Preaching at M and Church postponed to next Sunday and following Sundays. Festival Saturday night a great success. net proceeds $36 for school books. Oscar Wadsworth and Indianapolis relatives visiting. Pie social at Williams school Friday to raise money for library books. Uncle Harvey Evans very sick.
D. O. Wilias, a watchmaker and jeweler, announces a sale promotion offering free tickets with every 50 cents spent to win a high grade twenty year gold filled watch case with an Elgin or Waltham movement. Repairs also earn tickets. customers are urged to shop, repair, and view new lines while tickets last.
The piece notes a strong demand for frogs at major banquets with six to ten dozen used weekly by large dining venues. It describes the frogs as widely caught near streams around San Francisco and prepared by local youths, who serve as cooks and waiters in rustic feasts.
A parachute jumper recounts drifting over a pond at a country fair. He failed to heed a sign and landed in the water, fighting to reach shore amid mud and exhaustion while an angry onlooker yelled accusations.
The $10,000 damages claimed by George Messick against the Southern Indiana Railway Co for injuries in last fall's wreck near Linton were settled for $900. The Inter-State Telephone Co has installed a new switchboard in the rear room of the post office building.
Preston Hinds of Sunrise Wyoming and Miss Lula Tansey of Lyons were married at the bride’s sister’s home in Lyons at 7 o clock. Hinds is a telegraph operator at Sunrise and his family lives in Orleans. The bride, once a trimmer in Mrs Hindman’s millinery shop, is well regarded. The couple will reside in Sunrise Wyoming.
The Indiana Hydraulic Power company suit to condemn Hindostan Falls land owned by W. L. Stoy was tried last Saturday before Judge Houghton at Shoals. Stoy organized other power firms to resist, but the court ruled for the Indiana Hydraulic Power company and appraisers were appointed.
Sunday evening at eight o clock a marriage is planned at the home of Mr and Mrs E W Gwartney on Grove street for Howard Hiram Lackey and Anna Louise Barsh. Lackey is a prominent Lawrence county farmer and Barsh is well regarded in Odon with many friends. About fifty invitations issued.
This week Crooke and Forsythe sold a 155 acre river bottom farm to William T. English of Elnora for 812400, equating to 260 per acre. The sale reports indicate a clear transfer of ownership and payment terms.
A week long event starts Monday November 2 in Washington Indiana featuring bands, free acts including Archie Philibon in a Spiial act, farm product displays and nightly fireworks. The E I R BR offers a round trip fare plus wood for six days and on Thursday November 5 a special train departs north at six to accommodate overnight stays.
Crooke and Forsythe closed on 1240 acres of timber land in Jefferson county Arkansas and conveyed the property toward Daviess county residents.
A buffalo courier story recounts a colony of eagles along Chautauqua Lake. An eagle swooped on a heavy musky, a struggle ensued, and both bird and fish drowned after the eagle failed to release the fish as it sank.
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