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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1891
Page
4
The Democrat promotes a generous coupon deal urging readers to subscribe early to avoid missing the free copy and 5s additional value. It emphasizes rapid signups, community benefit, and urges lapsed or new readers to join promptly to stay “in the swim” and prosper.
Local notices advertise sales for hog and chick, land for sale, a mineral spring at D. M. Bynum, firefended properties, a gravel road project, and a new deputy treasurer Will Yakey. Community updates include weddings, a church fence, a baseball recap, a railroad excursion, and a featured tariff department in The St Louis Republic.
Local farmers report that a veterinary campaign using the new Dead Shot treatment has halted hog and chicken cholera. Officials say the disease spread was contained across the county with rapid vaccination and culling strategies.
The Democrat office has printed coupon books for merchants in all sizes and will fill orders for any books needed.
Cupid era notice lists marriages with licenses issued since last report. Thos W Berry wed Amanda McCombs Wm E Kessinger married Nancy Anderson Richard Easton to Letitia Conkling and Wm R McLaughlin to Louisa Anderson.
The record lists indebtedness figures for Fairplay and nearby townships with entries like 20095 for Wright and 13000 for Grant, noting that many amounts relate to bonds or warrants not yet due. Several line items are garbled but indicate townships with limited or no outstanding indebtedness.
Two boys on a western cattle farm christen a colt Focus at their sire’s request. The family prospers with good health, aided by Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, praised as a strictly vegetable liver remedy for biliousness headaches constipation indigestion and stomach disorders. One small sugar coated pill per dose is claimed to be all that is needed.
The charges show trustee service fees from various towns and individuals for the past year. Names include Hunt Fairplay 164 and Joe Moss Stockton 73, with totals ranging from 58 to 580 across districts such as Beech Creek Highland and Richland.
County trustees list winter pay amounts for teachers in each district and note a January draw nearly matching those sums. The document cites Richland, Stafford, Sefferson, Worthington, Washington, Taylor, Bloomfield, Jackson, Highland, Leep, Stockton, Beech Creek and other townships with varied totals and counts, illustrating expected earnings per teacher. Mortality of George W Calvert noted with obituary details and community charity mentioned.
An Illinois newspaper advertises General Grant memoirs at 30 cents with a year subscription to the Democrat and Cosmopolitan Magazine. It touts 650000 copies sold and lists other memoirs by Sherman Sheridan and McClellan, with postage details and binding notes. An added local brief reports an insane man, David Fudge, at large in Columbus Indiana terrorizing Nortonburg residents after allegedly escaping a state asylum.
George W Calvert born June 1 183? in Jefferson County Kentucky son of Nimrod and Sarah Calvert. He moved to Greene County Indiana as a child and lived in Highland Township then Bloomfield. He married Lorana Bryan March 12 1865. He died August 12 1801 after three months of illness from Brights disease at age 49 years 1 month 21 days. He leaves a wife seven sons two daughters an aged mother and siblings. Funeral services conducted by local ministers at the Baptist church in Bloomfield.
The county reports 176 teachers were employed last year with total payroll of $36 289.03 and 914 642.96 of special school funds spent on buildings furniture coal repairs and related needs. The county superintendent must audit all expenditures and ensure proper use of the tuition fund for entitled students. The text lists teacher counts and funds by township and corporation.
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