11 Feb 1888
Page 3
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Newspaper
Odon Weekly Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1888
Page
3
News briefs cover upcoming Valentine Day events taxes for Lyda's Comedy Company and April election plans. Local life includes sick children of Milo Smiley and B J Smiley, showgoing, church meetings, new engine for Dunlap mill, store plans, and civic notes from Odon Indiana with Republican trusteesship and election chatter.
Oscar Phipps visits the Lone Star state resident and Mrs Rebecca Taylor remains ill. Local social notes record visits by Luella and Clara Hubbard to John Hubbard’s, with wedding notices and county seat chatter. A broad Transfers list outlines property dealings, legals and church notes amid reader musings and Enquirer letters.
The text notes the death of Mrs. Mex Merryfield in Martin county on Sunday Feb 9 and her burial in a private family cemetery near Thesday crater. It also mentions Judge W. Rotaridiner as a preferred delegate candidate and various town incidents including mail deliveries, a man injuring himself in a fall, and Joseph Harmon swallowing a dental plate after sneezing with the plate broken.
Public notice from a Washington Indiana craftsman located at Mill and Center Street offering sharpening of saws and similar tools. The ad invites customers to visit the shop on the second Saturday each month and the fourth at the proprietor's residence for service and trade details.
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