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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1915
Page
7
Local notes report residents traveling to Mooresville Linton Bloomington and Terre Haute on various days including Mrs Cox John Hickey and Miss Geordia Brown. Several attend J M Cox funeral. others visit relatives in Williams Washington and Bedford. A shoe shop opens Adeline Street and a six pound boy is born to Mr and Mrs Bert Hornung.
Rex Pershing, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Pershing, died on Wednesday evening at his home on Ogden Street after a four week illness. He underwent an appendectomy on Sunday August 29, and his condition remained critical despite efforts to save him. He leaves his parents and brothers Owen and Max, along with many friends.
Sunday School at 9 15 a m with J E Pershing as superintendent Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 45 p m Epworth League Friday at 7 45 p m Sermon times listed and a cordial invitation to worship with us Welcome to all at every service
The Elmore Steele Veale and Washington township schools opened Monday September 13. Enrollment on day one included Elmore 221 Steele 442 Veale 202 and Washington township 618. Amanda Col bert taught West Washington with 61 pupils the largest. Gorman Pickard is a high school teacher at Epsom and a Indiana University graduate. Paul Mitchell of Winamac is Eaglesville principal and Indiana University student. J W Brown is Montgom ery high school second man and a State Normal graduate. Anna M Woech teaches at Cannerburg and is a State Normal graduate. Some teachers partially solve large class numbers by alternating grade work. Each teacher must have a signed copy of his success grade by July 1 each year. The county superintendent drafts these for township teachers, city superintendent for city teachers, and town superintendents for town teachers. A successful grade is legal from July 1 to June 30 of the following year.
Albert Bright and family visited Mort Bright and family Sunday. Mike Taylor and family visited Mike Thomas and family Sunday. Miss Cieo Sievers visited Neilie Pruett Sunday. Ira Bright visited Cecil Burkhart.
A parish notice lists preaching every 2nd and 4th Lord's Day, Bible School at 9 30 a m, Christian Endeavor on 1st and 3rd Lord's Day at 7 15 p m, with all welcome. A French soldier returns home and dies after his wife taps him with a fan during a dream of a guillotine. A collection of rural social notes follows including visits, a masquerade at the Stewart home, and a final quip: Do not be quick to accept a bald head as wisdom.
A collection of quirky quotes on women dressing for comfort and style, airplane safety versus street crossing risks, a light jab at clowns and shows, and the fear a milliner's bill instills in men. The tone is humorous and observational.
The remark suggests many married men would welcome a tax on single men. It hints at a social humorous take on marital honesty and the idea that a truthful husband is a heroic figure, contrasting ideas of duty and domestic life with wry wit.
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