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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1917
Page
3
Community notes list visits and social calls among residents including Ed Timmons in Newark Sherman Wells in Solsberry Luther Fry Roland Bland Anna Wells Rosa Wells and others. Events include church, visits to relatives and a new baby born to Ed Chaney. Army enlistments Don Deckerman Alva Allen stationed in St. Louis before Boston move.
Rock Wood W C Isenogle works on J R Ockerman farm. Maude Combs shops in Bloomfield and with Nelle Hasler in Scotland. Ona Stalcup visits Daisy Quillen. Edna and Olive Roach in Bloomfield. Rev George Kemp and wife stay with John Mitchell family. Noel and Lowell West visit cousin Elizabeth Hasler. Anna Arkie Foster visit Nelle Hasler. Wests and Pearl Combs with Oran Isenogle. Isenogle and Hasler attend Mineral fishing party. Grace Bynum and Elmer Mills of Lyons motor through. A D Isenogle visits father John Isenogle at Newberry. Elsie Wright visits Homer Kirk. Combs family with Pearl and Robert visit Ed Hasler. Walnut Grove preaching next first Saturday.
Local notes report Ben Franklin purchasing a new Overland. Several residents, including P. A. McIntosh and N. McIntosh, visit relatives. Mrs. Dotta Franklin and Stella Coan with children visit Lizzie McIntosh and family. Edward Altenbach of Indianapolis stays with S. N. McIntosh family. Mrs. Altenbach recently recovered from quinsy. Sums up social visits and illness notes across Gray area.
Local notices list residents on sick lists and travels from Ridgeport. Names include Jake Carmichael George Hunter Edward Allen Jonas Aland Logan Fuller Millie Heaton Nettie Streets Francis Ray Hiram Flynn Glen Sparks John Flynn Laura Warner Rassie Hardisty Charley Helms Dick Anderson Rev Charles Abrams Leora Blaker Pearl Wilkerson Rebecca Lester Nyden Burch and others. Farmers work plowing for corn and sowing oats as weekend visits occur.
Mrs Will Thompson is on the sick list. Zona Keys and Miss Zona Keys and Mrs Rebecca Lester dined with Margaret Workman and family. Mr and Mrs James Moses and Mrs Maria Shepherd visited L P Doyle. Millie Harrah and Tulip children spent Sunday with J B Thompson and Ralph Taylor families.
Workman visited Sunday at Margaret Workman's. Mrs. John Carmichael and two sons are visiting her parents here. Mr. Pink Pearson passed through here Friday en route to Bloomfield. Mrs. Tara Warren, Mrs. Oren Hamilton and children spent Sunday with Mrs. William Wilkey and family.
Alice Barker visits Lillie Graham as Charley Emery travels on business to Newberry. Mrs Edith Henderson hosts Lillie Graham after a Tuesday call. William George and Emerson Plummer return to Illinois. Nebo hosts 7:30 church and weekly Thursday singing. Townsend and Campbell families share Saturday and Sunday visits. Ethel Campbell dies at ten from blood poisoning after school injury. funeral planned with interment at Scotland cemetery.
Sunday night notices from Mineral area list visits and gatherings. Names include Rev. Flynn Solsberry, Miss Winifred McGinnis Bloomfield trip, Charlie Hord Tanner, Lilbern Jackson, Frankie Markley, Minnie Miller Ellis Arkie, George Foster Switz City, Charles Good family, Jerry Meredith, Fannie McCain Loretta Veatch, Arkie Anna Foster, Nellie Clayton Newark visitors, Misses Daisy Quillen Fern Combs Frank Edwards, Mary Hasler, Inez Jackson visitors, and Carrie Jackson Charles Jones wedding near Owensburg last week.
Ed Scott visits Terre Haute on business while J. E. Manley travels to Mt. Carmel and Neeleys visit Indianapolis for Grand Lodge. Families return from St. Petersburg and Greenville visits occur. Bogard barn struck by lightning burns. several locals relocate for work in Akron and Petersburg. high school closes May 18. Dr. Hyde to speak at commencement. Newberry raises a 100 foot flag pole with patriotic addresses by Revs.
Hudelson and Goldman lead a uniform drill with red cross nurses and school groups. The Star Spangled Banner was sung as the flag was raised. M. F. McIntosh and wife visited a farm near Worthington. Eastern Star hosted a welcome reception last Wednesday. Mrs Will Keller, after erysipelas, stepped on a nail causing blood poisoning. anti tetanus serum given and she shows improvement. Aldo Hindman and wife drove to Pleasantville to visit his parents and stopped to see M E Hindman and W K Wesner. At the Agricultural meeting Walter T Brown of Bloomfield spoke to a sizable crowd. Farmers seek to double corn yield from two ears to one.
Maple Burley Falk works for Victor Smith as families from Slough and Cary Dyer meet on Sunday. Milton and John Hester visit Walter Dyer Saturday morning. Samuel Griffiths visit William Watson's family Sunday. Miss Marie Stinebaugh visits William Waggoner's family last week. T. L. Franklin visits daughter Mrs Clarence Hanna. Miss Ethel Powell stays with aunt Dessie Dyer. Mrs. Ben Fiscug and children visit T. L. Franklin family Saturday. Ross Price and B O White with families visit Frank Spence's family Sunday. Walter Dyer's father Thomas Dyer shows partial recovery from illness. Charles Dickey and Ben Yancy visit Verlin Dyer family Sunday. Mrs Ralph Reagan of Worthington visits Mrs Shorter. Reagan's grandfather accompanies her home Saturday afternoon.
A sequence of Tuesday to Sunday social calls and visits in McVille features Miss Grace Minks and Miss Daisy Hawkins, Mrs. Hattie Brown, Miss Hazel Livingston, and other neighbors. Local trips include John Burks family outings to Bloomington and visits across nearby towns, with numerous dinner and church outings noted.
William Hunter visited the county seat Tuesday. A well attended band concert and ice cream social at the school building proved financially successful. County agent McIntosh and Purdue’s Prof. Jackson toured Marco to engage with farmers. Mrs. Ella Denny shows improvement after a fractured hip, remaining hospitalized. Rev Spencer of Sandborn delivered an engaging baccalaureate sermon.
High school commencement set for Friday night at the M E church with Rev Spencer of Sandborn delivering the address and the Marco orchestra providing music. Stafford township farmers rally for record farm product output following a well attended cattle feeding demonstration at Geo Morgan farm.
Thomas Gholson visited Wade Fuller on Sunday. Mrs Ed Minks called on Mrs Levi Fuller Saturday evening. Miss Mable Kindred of Allen Chapel was here taking the enumeration. Mr and Mrs Al Workman and daughters visited Mrs Lank Workman near Linton. Mr and Mrs Sherman Scharb visited their daughter Mrs Earl Conder one day last week. Wade Fuller a track team member attended the county track meet at Linton on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Harley Conder and Mr and Mrs Earl Conder called on Mr and Mrs Sherman Scharb Thursday evening. Miss Faye Graves of Lambert Miss who formerly stayed at Harley Conder’s was married last Sunday to Wiley Smith of Lambert Miss. C F McIntosh of Worthington the county agent will speak at the Coen school house Tuesday night May 1st. Come out and hear how to farm.
Sharky Tilman Goben mourns a baby’s death on Saturday morning. Many residents attend Sunday school and prayer meeting. Reports of visits include Mrs. Wilkins at Aaron Combs and Mrs. Dailey Heaton at Tilman Goben’s. A stork brings a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Adam Bland last Tuesday. Mothers Day services planned May 13 by Rev Dustin.
We extend heartfelt thanks to neighbors friends the I C O F and G A R organizations for sympathy and help during the sickness and death of our father David A Wilson Leah Frances Williams Earl G Wilson Clarence A Wilson
NOW IS THE TIME to file your mortgage exemptions. see Russell Fuller at Recorder's office for guidance and eligibility details.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes England has become a gum chewing nation. Sales jump from 3 million to 20 million sticks monthly after soldiers and sailors adopted chewing gum as a stress relief and throat moistening aid. The shift largely traces to army ration use and cross cultural influence.
A veteran officer recalls General Funston believing he would die a civilian rather than in action. The tale extends to Dr. William Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania who predicted his own death and named a date. Fredrick Fraley and others who interacted with Pepper later died in the foretold month and year.
Reports from a military trial describe a controversial electrical treatment used on soldiers deemed hopelessly crippled. The painful shocks allegedly restore limb use in nervous and psychic shock cases and have become compulsory in some military hospitals.
Miss Mabel Keyes Babcock, four years head of horticulture and landscape architecture at Wellesley College, chosen to design the formal garden for MIT president’s Boston residence and its grand installation. She is among the country’s leading female landscape gardeners, with notable work at Wellesley, Chicago estates, and greater Boston.
The London Globe cites Doctor Oswald of Glasgow Lunatic asylum arguing war dampens insanity by replacing poverty with higher living standards and paid work. Poverty and unemployment are described as more fertile causes of insanity than war, a lesson to remember postwar.
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