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Newspaper
Odon Weekly Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1889
Page
2
Advertising rates are listed with sizes and prices, ads due three months in advance, local lines charged per insertion, and a minimum fifteen cent local charge. All electrotype cuts must be mounted on all metal base for insertion. The paper notes the appointment of Pap Fils as Postmaster in Washington.
City officers are ordered to enforce a dog cag ordinance or risk disciplinary actions. The directive emphasizes strict adherence and threatens consequences for noncompliance within the department.
Pap Exzis receives the postmaster appointment in Washington a top selection. The move is welcomed by Pap but considered tough on Brother Sefrit in this local note with a fable reference.
Local veterans in the county welcome the appointment of Pap Ellis as post master at Washington. The newspaper notes that Sertrit of the Gazette would have pleased the public, but two individuals cannot hold the same office at the same time.
About 700 dollars buys land in Odon for a saloon district. No buildings yet, but whiskey men have acquired three adjacent lots. Local resistance has softened, with some former opponents now accepting the project. The area is already nicknamed Hell's Half Acre.
The Jovurnay readers are asked to accept frequent gun talk as the paper defends action near Dead Falls and Hell's Half Acre. The piece asserts the paper must fight and even “kick” if the situation demands.
The Petersburg News comments on local businessmen’s attitude toward the Farmers Alliance in Pike County. It predicts likely no advertisements from them and mocks those who fail to support the Alliance, joking about a heavenly pass for such critics.
Martin County Tribune notes marked improvement in the Open Journal since Afr. C. E. Odell took control. Local columns are filled with lively news, and all indications point to an era of prosperity for the Journal and its publisher.
A saloon proprietor who bought land to run a doggery informs the JOURNAL he will travel to Odon to sell whisky despite any opposition. The editorial concedes defeat and resigns to the inevitable, noting the man’s right to speak and the paper’s lack of consent.
An exchange defines a mossback as a cross between a cocyte and a bron cho with a strong broncho streak, a resident who moves through many U S towns, opposes public improvements, raises rents, detests boom times, and hates new enterprises. It argues mossbacks hinder growth while the industrious businessman should support progress and patronize those who help the locality.
Mrs Richard Maddox and her four year old daughter vanished after boarding a train in Bedford on August 1 bound for her husband’s sister in Loogootee. A letter from Indianapolis claimed she had left him forever and would travel to California. Another note mailed en route offered no further details, leaving the couple's friends and Richard Maddox seeking help and a reward for the daughter's return.
A Spoke and Bent Wood Factory bought timber five miles from town on First Creek requiring a road across a farmer’s land. Town teams are barred from hauling spokes, after earlier privileges to move brick for a local schoolhouse, which a farmer who signed to donate 2000 bricks later failed to honor.
Seymour Democrat reports Leuktke and Fillion have hewn squared and numbered 25 carloads of stone from the quarry near Bedford on the E S and R bridge over White river. 90 carloads are required to complete the work.
Howard Crooke appointed administrator of the estate of William Overton, deceased, of Vanburen township, Daviess County. Public sale at the late residence on Tuesday November 12 1880 at 10 o'clock a.m. Personal property includes household goods farming implements horses cattle hogs sheep corn wheat and other articles.
Terms of sale describe a twelve month credit on amounts over five with note and six percent interest, and cash for five or less. Administrator HMowarp Crouse. A new Meat Market opens one door east of Cromwell and TocHe’s hardware with a practical butcher promising quality meat and guaranteed satisfaction by H L Bessass.
LANI) FOR SALE Farms Lots and houses on easy payments. Sanders Johnson Box 222 Odon Indiana.
The text praises Electric Bitters as a great alterative that ends sickness and restores robust health. It claims relief for kidney liver or stomach diseases and promotes grateful testimony for the remedy sold at Litox's drugstore.
Property for Exchange advertises paying cash for Hickory and White Oak spokes and end timber of all kinds Balding material furnished on short notice and at reasonable prices. Custom sawing a speciality Ports and Johnson.
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