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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1894
Page
4
A compact weekly column chronicles personal gossip and local events including marriages and parties. Additional correspondence is noted to appear on a later page.
Jacob Brannon and family visited Koleen on Sunday. Miss Mattie Summerville was visiting Newberry last week. John Huffman attended the Towell-Hasler wedding. Rev. Freeman conducted Baptist services last week. Mr Ham and wife from Harmony are visiting J. W. Garrett. Wm. Trons was in town last week, complaining about hens. Uncle Owen McDonald, recently ill, is improving slowly. Miss Nellie Hannan visited Newberry last week, returned Saturday. The four leaders Taylor Persuasive Jim Peeeping David met in caucus to set Republican stakes. A. A. Morrison of Newberry was in town last week and will assume control of Riverside hotel soon. He and his wife run an orderly, well cooked and timely operation. We speak from
Harry Stahl passed through as Cravens visited our school during a Wednesday station business. Willie Shelburn from Freedom visits grandparents here. Several young folks attended a Pak debate. R A Rhodenbeek, Lyons druggist, visited family over Sunday. Milton Carr recovers from five weeks of typhoid and malaria. Tobe Butter of White County returns after seven years to visit Uncle James Beck. Dr Arnold of Lyons moved in with his daughter Mrs Price Slinkard near here.
A local druggist offers Dr King's New Discovery for coughs and colds with a money back guarantee if no benefit after using as directed. Trial bottles are free at S. Stalcup's drug store, with large sizes priced at 50 cents and one dollar.
A terse note reports a whiskey racket in town Saturday. It mentions a heating stove for sale and a contact at the Swaney Goose. The piece also notes farmers taking advantage of good weather to begin spring plowing and praises the school’s progress under Prof. O.
Aaron notes a strong turnout at the Falk school house meeting led by E. H. Floyd. B. F. Meredith and his best girl attended the Combs school house oyster supper last week. Dan Sullivan seen heading west near Meredith’s corner. Merchants plan another sale of old lumber to build sidewalks to the school. Harshal Bullocks married Miss Fannie Wilkie at Wm. A. Meredith residence with Elder Floyd officiating. Bullock, son of David Bullock, praised as a gentleman. Wilkie, daughter of Jerrie Wilkie of Highland township, teaches there this winter and is highly esteemed.
An OCR fragment reports a man named W B Leeper praising Simmons Liver Regulator after four months use for chronic constipation and hemorrhoids with bleeding, claiming his wife is almost cured. The text mentions powder or liquid forms and a dry or tea preparation.
Local items report ongoing meetings at New Hope and movement of residents including Dixon at Riverside Hotel. Notable events: birthdays, hospitalities, illnesses, doctors new to town, a restaurant plan, travel through town, and a catarrh cure advertisement. Obituaries note deaths of Mrs. Emery Lewis and Jnok Klink with services and burials recorded.
In all diseases of the nasal mucus membrane the remedy used must be non-irritating. Douches snuffs powders or astrin gents are irritating and ineffective. Many sufferers testify to radical permanent cures with Ely's Dream Balm. no druggist is without it.
Riley Anderson visited his father in law Sunday while Frank Glover was seen on our streets Wednesday night Minnie Workman visited Julia and Hannah Owen Sunday John Workman wandered Sunday seeking his best girl Heaton excited over the Ridgeport banquet Ed Letsinger guest of Newton Holtzclaw Sunday Horace Tribby Harley Condor and Tom Bingham were here Sunday Granville Anderson plans a large corn crop Maud Messick visited Park last week Horace Tribby injured by a barbed wire fence Police needed to curb noisy youths and revolvers Salvation Oil advertised as a reliable rheumatism and pain cure for 25 cents
Miss Delia Arthur visited at home Joseph Van Deventer was in town E. E. Pryor was at home Saturday and Sunday M. F. McIntosh was at J. P. McIntosh's Sunday J T Breeden preached for the M E people Sunday Nathan Hedden and family visited over south Sunday Leroy Secrest was here attending G A R meeting Saturday There was a sleight of hand show in town Tuesday night D O Lyons has purchased a coon dog from Jackson Kimble William Bland was in town Tuesday looking for stock dogs There must be something wrong as our paper did not reach here a Drum mond Tobacco Co representative was in town Saturday
Joe and John Arthur traveled to Daviess county last Tuesday and returned Friday. Ruben Lent and Neal Ritter were at Freedom Saturday to shop for local merchants. Churchgoers attended Kelley schoolhouse services Sunday night. A child of Robert Thompson was badly burned Saturday when clothing caught fire. Ex postmaster T P Anthony of Promise City Iowa reports Mystic Cure helped rheumatism after one bottle and two doses. Sold by A L Cavins, Druggist, Bloomfield. 35m6
On January 15 friends and relatives arranged a surprise birthday dinner for Monroe Grounds. He was led to Lyons in the morning and returned home to find about seventy guests enjoying a bountiful meal. Grounds, born in North Carolina and later moved to Indiana, is sixty-four and has amassed a comfortable life. The gathering wished him many more happy birthdays.
The president sent to the senate on January 22 a nomination of Wheeler H. Peckham of New York to be associate justice of the Supreme Court. Peckham, noted as a delegate to the so called anti-snapper convention, awaits confirmation.
Brooklyn January 22 The Rev T DeWitt Talmage announced after his Sunday night sermon that he will resign as pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle at the 25th anniversary of his charge. He praised the work but said a quarter century is long enough and that the pulpit will be occupied by others chosen by the congregation. He plans to continue preaching by voice and through the press if health permits and has arranged a two month lecture tour through Australia. He is 62 and previously opposed a ten cent admission scheme at his church.
Mrs Schimmel in the East End discovered a burglar in her house. She called neighbor Mrs Frey, the two entered, captured the burglar, forced him to unload his booty, and then released him. Also reported: Vernon Taylor, 18, died after falling 30 feet while inspecting a roof at the Folk building in Steal edville. In Danville a post office burglary ended with police siege and a policeman killed. Bulawayo dispatch notes King Lobengula entrenched near the Zambezi river.
The Cincinnati market reports January grain and cattle figures with wheat around 59e for bid and corn and cattle values showing varied bids. Pittsburg and Toledo list prime cattle and hog prices, with New York noting mixed wheat and corn futures and cattle and lamb ranges.
Notice to the people of Stafford township Greene county Indians that I will transact the business of said township at my office in Marcn on any day in the week except Sunday Samuel N Yeoman.
Notice to residents of Grant township Greene county Indiana that W.K. Dekard trustee will be at Switz City each Saturday forenoon and at his residence two miles south and one mile east of the precinct each afternoon to transact township business.
The Textile World's annual 1893 report records 172 new mills employing 18 160, versus 272 mills and over 20 000 workers in 1892. Average mill size fell. 110 28 workers per mill in 1892 compared with 76 in 1893, with 52 new cotton, 83 new woolen mills and 53 knitting mills, plus 15 new silk ventures. Sixty six sets added by new woolen mills, 41 by old mills, 1 485 looms installed, versus 1 117 in 1892.
Notice to the people of Casa township Greene county Indiana. The treasurer announces a weekly town meeting every Tuesday to transact township business as provided by law. John C. Moore, Trustee.
Notice to the people of Taylor township Green County Indiana that I will be at my office at my residence on Saturday each week during my term to transact township business. Business will be transacted only on three days as evidenced by Henry Borter treasurer.
Inprana Pennsylvania January 22 John Cunningham and his son-in-law Bookamire went hunting last Thursday. Cunningham’s body was found Sunday near Purchase Line showing signs of murder. He carried $200 and his pocketbook was found in the woods emptied. No trace of Bookamire has been found, raising strong suspicion as a vigorous search continues.
Royal Wine Co advertises Royal Baby Port Wine as a tonic for weakened strength, wasting illness, and nursing mothers. It claims to boost appetite and vitality with a pure, five-year-old wine cheaper at $1 per quart and 60 cents per pint, sold by R. E. Eveleigh in Bloomfield, Indiana.
George Spare of Warter Indiana is described as having endured a remarkable run of boils, reportedly nursing his 51st boil since November 1, reflecting a long, stubborn health affliction in the small community.
Mrs Cleveland welcomed visitors in Public, Washington, from 8 to 5 Saturday afternoon, marking the season's first and only public reception. Residents attended to meet Mrs Cleveland and view early seasonal displays.
An OCR fragment details an excursion from Worthington to the World’s Fair in Chicago with a fare of 10 505 dollars. Tickets run daily except Sundays from October 31 to November 6, 1893, with continuous passage and no stopovers. The train departs Worthington and arrives at Chicago with a special southbound to Shia 2.
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