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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1906
Page
2
O O E X Y O N cedb at the Ocon Indiana Postoffice u ser and Clacsmail matter Subscription Rates. Rates shown for six months and advance payments. Advertisements include cards of thanks and resolutions of condolence at standard rates. Community notices urge citizens to engage in local government and school improvement, citing growth and prosperity.
Farmers sow wheat and residents visit Plainville Epsom and Lettsville. Dr O K McKittrick calls in town while Mrs Martha Myers plans Plainville visit. Typhoid illness noted. Walter Chandler builds a new dwelling and Rev C A Ward to preach at Mt Zion Friday. Charles Tark and wife pass through, and many locals attend church and social events.
A compilation of brief items notes Jos Callahan and George Henderson in Indianapolis on business, visits with relatives in Elnora and Indianapolis, and attendance at the State Fair. Socials mention Miss Jane Freeman, Miss Maud Pershing, and Miss Verna Sears birthday, plus local calls for dress goods, corsets, and new glassware. A mishap reports Fred Shaffer’s buggy accident north of town. several residents travel to Indianapolis for the State Fair.
Local items note visits and travel including Dr and Mrs R J Danner of Elnora visiting relatives, Mr and Mrs B F Sears and Ribble Sears with kin at Bedford, Mary Lawwell and children in Columbus Ohio, and a two week Oakland City trip. Also a lost pocketbook, firm dues reminder, property for sale if not sold soon, and requests to return tools. Fev 8. L Todd.
The Odon schools opened with 362 students, the largest in school history. High School enrollment is 62, up from 50 last year, while grades 2 through 7 benefited from an extra teacher. A 89 pupil first grade group required split sessions, and a hall over Barkley and Overton’s store housed 4th and part of 3rd grade until expansion is finished.
A reader offers excess corn suitable for horse or hog feed. Available in wagon load lots by gauge or by weight. Written notice dated September 21.
On and after August 1 1906 I will make and boil cider on Wednesdays and Thursdays of each week W R Neeriemer Odon Ind This public notice states the weekly operating days for cider production by Neeriemer in Odon Indiana.
Henry Farlow reported a watch stolen on a crowded Indianapolis train. He followed the thief to Louisville where the watch was identified and the pickpocket arrested after Farlow identified it.
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