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Births and deaths fill a quiet week with local ties and par ties. Personal gossip hints at social rounds across town and friendly chapters in everyday life.
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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1893
Page
1
Births and deaths fill a quiet week with local ties and par ties. Personal gossip hints at social rounds across town and friendly chapters in everyday life.
Bill Kelly moves in with his father and Wes Calvert sustains a sore ankle. Misses Nora McIntosh Alma Willard visit Ben Owens. Miecea Clem Foley Lassie Nelson and Misses Willard visit Emma Buckner. Tilman Kelly Tim Calvert expected to duel. fight result next week. Mrs Arthur of near Newark visits daughter Della at McIntosh's. Spelling party at Ft Wilson enjoyed by Daisy Van DeVenter Clem Foley Lucy Kelly Mrs Foley Charley Van DeVenter Willie McIntosh. Simmons Liver Regulator advertised as trusted medicine from Georgia. Journal Lanesboro Minn.
Community chatter mentions neighbors with chores and visits including John Blaker painting the church and Emmations visiting. Advertisements promote The Twice a Week Republic portfolio offer by subscriptions and a sample copy, with pricing and response details.
Visits by Illinois and Bloomington families mix with weddings and a sheep shipment to Harrodsburg. Edward Crane and Laura Lindeey wed Nov 25, while Hugh Bullock and Maud Cook marry Nov 26. A Toledo firm hawks Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials and a 75 cent price.
Christmas preparation tips sound trio of social notes. J B Smiley visited the county seat on Saturday. Alice Underwood visited at Indian Springs. Dr Dearmin and wife traveled to Washington last Friday. Hindman delivered drummers on Wednesday. Elias Crooke attends the Endeavor convention in Bedford. Mre Ave Huig of Elnora visited relatives Wednesday. George McWilliams made a quick visit to Pisinville last week. Walker Ford of Terse Mente appeared Thursday evening.
Local items report Rev D W Brown’s house repainted enhancing curb appeal Harriet Johnson of Bloomfield visits Rev L B Johnson Nora Slinkard from Newberry visits Mabel Johnson U P S C E festival at Opera House drew crowds despite poor weather A stranger disease causes fingers to stick to surfaces Friday a boy rested on Christian church steps after likely tea The ex postmaster T F Anthony praises Mystic Cure for rheumatism sold by A L Cavina Bloomfield Druggist somo
Neighborhood chatter records visits illnesses social events and school news from Bloomfield area. Items mention Mrs Charlotte Chiney Emmett Heaton Maggie Harrel and Gertie Chaney plus plans for socials at Coen school house and Matamoras with Christmas nearing and a potato crop remark. An advertisement for Myatic Cure Rheumatism offers a day cure by A L Cavins.
Oscar Hodge visited Bloomington while the Sunday school drew a good crowd. Craggie Miller attended Bethel Church. W. G. Pruett joined an institute in Cincinnati Saturday. Mare Spice invited Mr and Mrs Chesnut for Sunday. Deputy Sheriff Will Johnson was in town last week. Several members attended Cincinnati church Sunday night. Mary Whitworth the Martindale School teacher spent weekend with Ella and Mamie Bogard. Supper time moved to Saturday night before Christmas. admission 25 cents, children under twelve pay 10 cents.
A leading medical tonic, Electric Bitters, boasts popular favor since its introduction. Marketed as a safe remedy for stomach, liver, and kidney ailments, it claims to cure sick headache, indigestion, and constipation while expelling malaria from the body. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. price 50 cents per bottle. Sold by S. Stalcup.
Names and movements of residents visit towns, moves, and injuries. Mentions N G Nash Jo Britton W Pugh S R Emerson F Groven in Bloomfield and McVille. cat tle buyer Barlan Resler. E E Pryor moves to McVille. George Emerson and wife travel. Tashi Pendleton seeks a dog. Jr Bruner sprains arm. locals discuss joining Regular Army. Hugh Gaston returns from Illinois. church attendance at Newhope and Troy. druggist authorized to sell Dr King’s New Discovery with money back guarantee. trial bottles free at Starcup’s store with price 50c and $1.00.
George Spainhower vows to persevere amid local scenes as E R Hunter improves with home remedies. Lou Hunter travels to Bloomfield on business while Huffville invites archers for bows and arrows. Smith township attends Bloomfield teachers meeting and Greene county recorder Charles Kemp visits Smith township. B C Hunter seeks surgical institute in Huffville for lectures. Lincoln church protracts its meeting to the third Saturday in December.
An advert proclaims the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers ash rheum fever ores ietter chapped hands chilblaine corns and all skin eruptions and claims piles are cured or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by 8 Stalcup tf.
The roads are muddy. Aga Weaver is sick. Tom Britton vs Bill Medaris is settled. John Brown bought fur from Ed Arthur. Dr. Young of Newark visited last week. Charley Burk Jr works for Berry Cox. Nat Isham went to Spencer for goods. Joe Hickman and Don Boruff went to Newark to mill.
Robert Leach and Jacob Burn visited town last Friday while Presiding Elder Willis preached at the M E church. J A Poe traveled eight miles for Linton business. A large Christmas stock arrived. entertainment by Ela’s group drew a good crowd. Schools progress under Prof Enbanke with 360 attendees last Friday. Greene County Fair officers elected for 1894 led by Mose as president and Burns as vice president. Typhus fevers, wrecks, and a Thanksgiving masquerade are reported. Christmas preparations underway. Notables include Frank Strong and Jo Moss visiting town. Walker C Howard, formerly of Kentucky, died November 30 and was transported to Kentucky. Rev Marston from Queensland lectured Friday. school contractors returned home. Remains of Wa Beasley laid to Olive Branch cemetery.
William Hall loses a fine horse last week. Flova Halstead nine died Monday morning and was buried at Waggoner cemetery after a Christian church funeral led by Rev. Summers. Other items include Henry Kauffman shipping hogs, O Haver selling property, and visits among area residents.
Pack peddlers are numerous on city streets with John Bays and Robert Shelber seen on Dan Stantz made a flying trip to the city last week. Dan Nichols, conductor on the I. & 18, is taking a lay off. Charles Retheford's wife is not ex-
W H Brown traveled to Indianapolis to obtain Christmas supplies. The I and WY railroad reduced section hands to eight hours daily, equating to 88 cents in pay.
Sam Roberts moves into Greene county. Jack Catron visits Bloomfield. The spoke factory will reopen soon. N. J. Stevens visits Terre Haute. Bruce Langton and Cal Garrett return from business trip despite influenza. Rev. Whitsett missed sermon due to sickness. No youth program planned for Christmas. Fergusoys return to Pennsylvania after visit home. Baldwin & Co. organ dealer visit from Indianapo tts. Wm. Britton’s child severely burned by hot water boiler. Maud Cornelius returns home from Burns City. Medical note explains lactic acid causes rheumatism and promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a remedy and blood purifier.
Roads are muddy as Highland teachers convene for an Institute begun December 9 with Daisy McIntosh on Burke and Webster and J M Trent presenting methods. Lena Padgett explained physiology. P L Long discussed percentage. Nora McIntosh and Emma Buckner performed readings. institute adjourned to meet January second Saturday.
Robert Fowler attended a protracted meeting with Victor Sun Rev Floyd while R W Yoho visited Bloomington Monday. Gertie Yoho contemplates evolution lessons. A Christmas tree entertainment is planned for Christmas night. Jasper Riddle and family visited his mother Sunday. Seymour Riddle returned from Bloomfield to rest a few days. H D Lutz photographed the institute Saturday. Charles Kemp was in town Monday night as guest of Wm Anderson. David Long visited his uncle Henry Long who is ill. John M Meredith from Hobbieville stayed with Kinsey Cullison Sunday. E Mowery, staying with J Hays, left for town but mislaid his way ending in Jonesboro. Emmett Dagley & Son bought Kinsey Cullison drug line and renovated James Hudson’s house.
The article notes progress under Prof Evans with Rev Bingham visiting Robinson Saturday. It mentions Ciderville excited over a new correspondent and boys attending a spelling at Heaton Thursday night. Joe Brown and Anna Bingham joined the protracted meeting at Heaton Sunday night. Leary Condor was seen on Mon Jonas Aland on our streets Monday. The Democrat offers blank deeds mortgages receipts and other blanks at low prices.
In Danville Indiana Mrs C S Wesner settles her $10000 damages suit against J C Brown for the killing of her husband last May. The case arose from a courtroom murder following heated words between opposing counsel. Brown was tried and acquitted. the settlement amounts to $3000. Both men were prominent in the community.
Tremont Sultine of Losantiville shot and killed Samuel Harter after slipping a cartridge into his gun and declaring I will shoot you. The coroner investigated, while other regional notes report scaldings at Indianapolis Light and Power, land leases for Indiana gas belt pipelines, a memorial to Jonathan Jennings, a Warsaw suicide, a Muncie disappearance, and a Gurenspend confidence scam.
Taylor McConaha a wealthy Centerville farmer reappears refusing to explain his February disappearance. In Ossian Indiana a building planned as a saloon was destroyed by dynamite. In Union City Indiana Sam Prive’s confession in the Kent Brown killing case is read with claims of self defense.
Desire December 11. The Denver Times editor telegrams President Cleveland asking for a public statement on the effect of repealing the Sherman act. He cites thousands unemployed in Colorado and urges prosperity restoration elsewhere if relief has followed.
Portland Indiana to raise saloon tax from 8 to 230 dollars Annie Wagoner stands trial for poisoning the Kooster family at Indianapolis Last winter Bogus telegrams to farmers near Bremen net about 160 dollars Worthington gang linked to car thefts and flour grab Fort Wayne club indicted for liquor and Sabbath law violations Indianapolis area crime and local disputes Greensburg gas leak near miss Lafayette fatal shooting in a quarrel Terre Haute forgery past and tissue paper on silver dollars Anderson forgery arrest from 19 years ago
The season’s lake navigation tally shows 53 boats destroyed and 123 lives lost across the Great Lakes, with half the fatalities on Lake Erie. Steel vessels suffered higher losses than wooden ones, and collisions and fires drove most ruinous incidents.
A wide sweep of brief items notes: Ella Amos dies in Lexington Indiana after clothes ignite at a grate. Mrs. Mary Wendell killed in a Tell City runaway. Henry Miles shoots Mary Ward and surrenders after jealousy. A locomotive explosion kills engineers Elliott Fireman Leever and Brakeman Spence in Hastland Texas. Edward Cady, 45, murders his children then suicide in Irie Pennsylvania. Unknown assailant arrested near Concord Georgia found hanged with bullets. Yaqui bands near Mexican revolutionaries. A San Francisco man named William Alonzo Jones injures a crank near Parkersburg West Virginia. E. M. Jenkins, Vossburg Mississippi marshal, shot by Deputy Earl Patton. Captain Fowls family drowns on Salt River California. Milan of Servia rumored coup to reclaim throne. Princes Frederick Wilhelm ill. Spanish police raid anarchist hubs. Influenza deaths rise in Germany. Storm damages Britain. ships sink. many deaths. Bulawayo quiet as settlement nears. Ge orgetown Georgia and Powers Dry Goods in St Paul burn. Norfolk navy yard stores burn. Hazelton Pennsylvania mine fire. Crystal Ridge mine under control with million loss. Rev Hiram Eddy of Canaan Connecticut dies. B P Hutchinson returns to Chicago board of trade business.
News reports a bloody clash at Hollister between Hungarians and others, with over a dozen seriously injured. Peter Manosky has a skull fracture and Schiovsky was stabbed in the abdomen. both are expected to die. A separate item notes Dr. Scott E. Hershey, pastor, challenging a papal delegate to public debate on school statements.
Editor Stead of London and Mrs. Helen Gougar of Indiana addressed a large Central Music Hall audience on social problems and temperance. Gougar praised immediate relief for the needy while Stead argued prohibition fails and churches should do more to combat liquor with practical aid. He cited saloons providing comforts to patrons, drawing applause.
Reports from Topeka and southern Kansas describe a surge of hundreds of tramps arriving after Governor Lewelling issued a circular to police boards. Towns report intimidation, arson fears, and assaults on farmers. sheriffs bolster deputy ranks as trains bring more vagrants from Texas seeking winter shelter in Kansas.
The Illinois conference of charities and corrections appointed a 100 member committee to raise 1 900 000 dollars for relief of the city’s unemployed nearly 117 000. Editor Stead noted ministers and millionaires should fund the effort, while many sought shelter at city hall. The meeting urged city work programs to aid jobless and feed the starving.
A dispatch from Petropolis Brazil reports Mello plundered the town of Hila Grande and then fled toward the south. The notice calls for lively correspondents from Greene county townships and requests weekly mailed correspondence to reach the office by Tuesday.
A British schooner named Jason went ashore off Eastham Massachusetts during a blinding storm. All 27 crew perished after the ship broke in two amidships. lifesavers failed to secure a line to the doomed vessel as rescuers battled heavy seas. One survivor, Samuel Evans, later spoke of the loss.
A House proposal by Representative McGann directs the labor commissioner to study conditions for women and children in employment, including wages, sanitation, health, and life impact. The investigation would extend four to five years and examine machinery's effect on labor costs, production, and wages across industries.
Kansas readers react to Governor Lewelling's call to police boards for a winter report on tramps in Kaneas. Local leader Chief Asher calls the governor's plan sensational and ridiculed, arguing the target is professional vagrants rather than the impoverished unemployed seeking work.
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