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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1920
Page
1
Three special trains will bring railroad employees to the city for a park picnic scheduled Sunday. Specials arrive about 9 am with normal trains also operating. The Odon Concert Band will perform in the afternoon as the day features music games boxing and various contests.
Cecil Gillatt, wanted in Washington for alleged complicity in the Joliff hardware store robbery and Myers and Williams store in Plainville, was arrested Sunday at the B and O Depot as he tried to board a Madisonville bound train. He spent the night in jail and was taken to circuit court this week. Gillatt had arrived in Washington for a brief visit with his mother before the Madisonville proceedings. He was arrested under a warrant from Mayor McPherson and released Sunday on a $1,000 bond.
The Colon Drug Company installed a new electrically operated cash register. It has a drawer per clerk and shows each clerk’s daily sales, total cash received and paid out, and customers served. It issues receipts, records department totals, and enables end of day reviews for efficiency. Installation completed Wednesday. Miss Verna Young of Elnora visited the city Wednesday.
Local notes report visits and greetings among residents including Fred Kinnaman in Vincennes and Hazel Crooke’s teaching move to Freeport Illinois. Listings mention for sale Shropshire sheep and a cider schedule starting August 12 1920. Several family visits span Linton Indianapolis Washington and Burns City with notices of residences and a stray dog sighting.
Advertisement seeks women and girls over 16 to work in the dressing department at Deatmin's Poultry House. Describes clean work and good wages, with immediate applications encouraged.
Nine boys plus Scout Master and assistant, led by W S Butich and Fred Dearmin, traveled from Odon to Bedford Paoli Marengo Leavenworth West Baden and back, camping in multiple towns and exploring caves and local sights. They faced detours and a missing truck license yet completed the round trip safely, ending with the line Our dreams of five years have come true.
A list of Republican speakings slated for the north end of the county next week includes Geof Faith and Chas Sims in Epsom on Tuesday September 14, Earl Thompson and Ed C Faith in Plainville on September 15, Ezra Mattingly in Elnora on September 14, Elmer Hasting and J Earl Thompson in Eaglesville on September 16, and E T Laughlin with JG Allen on September 16.
Ostin Edmondson of Elnora and Miss Bernice Killion of this city were united in marriage at Bloomfield last Friday. The ceremony was at the M. E. Parsonage and the couple left for Indianapolis. The bride is Elmer and Adeline Killion’s daughter, an Odon High School graduate class of 1920. The groom is the son of Col Edmondson of Elmore township and will work in Indianapolis.
Roy E. Pershing and Flora E. Hitch were married at 8 o clock Tuesday night by Rev. Virgil Thompson at the First Methodist Episcopal church parsonage. Pershing works at the local railroad shops and is J. E. Pershing’s son, the county clerk. The bride is a popular young woman in the city. They plan to reside here and are wished happiness by admirers in the city and beyond.
A severe shortage of school books disrupts the new season with publishers lagging in manufacture. Dealers who ordered in July have not received many items including copybooks primers and first through third readers, causing widespread inconvenience and calls for system reforms.
Mr and Mrs George E Lily of Phoenix Arizona are visiting Mrs Lily's parents Mr and Mrs John York and other relatives and friends during the trip.
Constance Talmadge stars as Arabella Cadenhouse in a Select picture presented by Lewis J. Selznick at the Star Theater Saturday. Arabella, a young widow, courts romance amid counterplotters and elopement schemes before a final wedding with Bill as the millennial tonic.
The Southern Indiana Fox Hunters Association will hold its annual meet at Speed Hollow near Springville from October 18 to 23. Prizes will be awarded for various events, and no hunting will be allowed on the grounds before the meet.
Vincennes Indiana hosts the eighty ninth annual Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church from September 15 to 20. Bishop Frederick D Leete will preside with focus on new plans for the Indiana area. The event marks nineteen years since the last Vincennes gathering and will be held in the new building dedicated in 1919 on the former site.
A ball game Sunday left T G Wadsworth with facial injuries from a hot foul ball. nose injury ruled not broken after examination in Odon. The issue notes community moves, teaching placements, farm shifts, and local visits, including teachers to Jasonville and Bedford, residents to Madison township, and a State Fair attendance. Citizens also mention a Burns City vs Eaglesville Blues game, 27 to 11. Local families such as Wadsworths, Smilys, Perrys, Olney sanitarium exams, and Webster County movements are recorded.
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