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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1917
Page
4
Residents and visitors from Switz City Bloomfield Jasonville and Dresden are noted in a string of social items. People travel for visits Easter gatherings and friendly calls while others attend gatherings and egg roasts and share meals at local homes.
Mrs Mollie Henderson visits relatives in Elnora this week. Miss Minnie Denny stays with Mrs Maud Skomp. George Mortland does carpentry for Roy Skomp. Baccalaureate services Sunday night were well attended. Mr Swenson recovers from a severe blood poisoning. A large crowd attends Sunday commencement services. Friday night Mrs Robert Denny and Mrs James …
Grace Minks sick with sore throat. Neighbors visit and call on Mrs. and Mrs. Cox, Eller and Malicoat families. Funeral of James Banard attended by locals. Alma Turner dies after illness. Fielding Turner reports family loss. Niece, husband, and relatives grieve at Prairie Chapel burial under Rev Tolbert.
Last Easter Sunday brought heavy snow and blizzard conditions. March storms left six inches of snow, disrupting church services and Easter preparations, with mild days prior causing damage to young pasture, fruit trees, and clover.
Alma Sims Doyle dies at home in Midland Indiana on Sunday March 25 1917 at age 27 years 11 months 2 days born April 23 1889. She married Byrd A Doyle September 4 1910 and they had a daughter Rachel Elizabeth eight months two days old. She is survived by her husband and daughter and by her father and mo...
Fielding Turner thanks friends and neighbors for assistance kindness and sympathy during illness and death of beloved mother wife and daughter. Gratitude expressed to Dr. Chambers Dr. Cook Ms. Davidson for service and to the floral donors.
Dudley Davidson, aged near eighty, died Monday morning at his son John Davidson’s Lyons home after years as an invalid. Funeral was held Tuesday, burial in Prairie Chapel. He left a widow also an invalid, and three sons John, William, and George. ten children born, nine living to old age.
Rules for Indiana corn contest require members of the Indiana Corn Growers Association enrolled by June 15. contestants grow five acres in Greene County with cost and yield records due by December 1 1917. A judging panel including a Purdue appointee will measure plot size ear bearing stalks per acre weight per acre and moisture content. awards based on yield and cost of production.
A neighbor dies peacefully with his invalid wife present. As the spirit departs the room, she hears the words it is finished and laments that her best friend is gone. The old clock’s pendulum halts, ending its nearly sixty year swing as life ends.
John E. Burks aged 76 died of Bright's disease at his Cincinnati residence Saturday night. A Civil War veteran and member of the 82 Indiana regiment, he had two marriages with six children surviving. Burial took place at Carmichael Cemetery on Sunday.
Joicey Carpenter died at 1 30 am Saturday at her daughter's home in Lyons after a long illness and was buried Sunday in Dog Island cemetery. She was stepmother to ex-trustee George Carpenter of Washington township and step-grandmother to several Carpenter family members including Mrs Malachi Boruff of Bloomfield and Mrs Thurman Jeffers of Lyons.
Miss Nellie Jean daughter of Mrs Amos Jean of Worthington and Lee Ingersol son of Dory Ingersol of Fairplay township were married here.
The marriage occurred Saturday at 5:30 PM at the Christian church home of Rev. Merritt Owen. Miss Edna Knapp, daughter of E. E. Knapp, and civil engineer Stanley Powell of Champaign were the couple, with close friends Carrie Johnson Marie Riddle and Clarence Bennett in attendance. After the ceremony the couple left for Indiana.
The text notes a sequence from Polis to Danville for residence, indicating relocation to a new home or address. The fragment confirms a geographic progression between two named places. No dates or additional details are provided.
The passage argues that roads are vital for commerce and condemns bad and temporary roadwork. It invokes ancient Rome and contrasts pikes with proper roads, urging timely, substantial investment to achieve truly good roads and lower future tax burdens.
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