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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1917
Page
4
Bloomfield confirms social visits and family gatherings with relatives in Grand Junction Newberry and Scotland areas. Several entries mention baptisms funerals and travel for holidays plus farming tasks and a draft draw among Jackson township youths.
Saturday and Sunday saw numerous visits and arrivals across towns including Tulip Bland families at Geo Bland’s and Linton residents, plus trips to Worthington Bloomfield Indianapolis and Unionville. Several gatherings at the viaduct and John Workman grove. minor health event for Donald Whitsett with tonsil removal.
Farmers busy haying. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Britton visited Bloomfield. Nearly everyone attended Pleasant Ridge church Sunday night. Glenn Bullock and Herbert Stanley called on Friend Rester Sunday morning. George Frye family hosted Paul Britton and wife. Ruth Ferguson stayed with Hazel Messimore Saturday afternoon. Gilben Stanley and Sam Murphy from Dugger visited the James Stanley family Sunday. Visitors also called on T. C. Ferguson Sunday evening including Harvey Bland Walter Ferguson Hazel Messimore and Minnie Bland.
Local residents were seen visiting and hosting events from Tuesday to Sunday. Wheatley and Norval Ockerman’s households appear in several calls while Eva Wright, Miss Bertha Pearson, and Miss Edith Hash visited Geo Carpenter and other neighbors. Blackberry picking and hay making marked Sunday activities as Marie Shipman and Venza Anderson visited Eva Wright.
The column lists residents visiting family and friends over the weekend. Rena and Robert Dailey spent a day with their companions, while Mrs Fay Howard and her son William visited her mother Mrs Aaron Combs. Olivena Bradley Esther Gwinnup visited Gilpin sisters Sunday. Fern Combs Mrs Curtis Combs and Harold visited Mr and Mrs Riley Shertzer Allen Chapel. Mrs C C Hendren and daughters Dorothy Joe Elizabeth returned from Indianapolis hospital where Mr Hendren was treated. Mrs G H Hendren accompanied them home and well wishes are sent for his quick return to prosecuting duties.
A collage of local visits and daily life in Bloomfield and nearby towns. The note lists relatives and neighbors stopping by homes, visitors from Poseyville and Bicknell, job changes at a Bloomfield brick plant, and social calls across families including the Roach, Hasler, Chaney, and Hineman households. It also records the death of Mrs. Rice Hattabough and a for sale item for a small truck mower from J A Sparks in Marco.
WANTED Girl for housework by MRS. W. L. SLINKARD. WANTED Man and small family for farm and general work. Furnish two room house with water free. W. L. SLINKARD.
House and lot 99 by 132 feet for sale in Indiana polis. All or part considered. Bargain price. Contact L S. Graham at 209 W. Washington Street Indiana polis Indiana.
A local notice seeks workers for gravel road maintenance. Inquiries directed to Harmon J. Brown in Lyons Indiana, R. R. No. 2.
A concise notice promoting M F Pate as a source for reliable abstracts. It invites readers to call on or address the service for prompt, economical abstracting.
Secretary Daniels informed President Vail of AT Company about sea trials of wireless telephone use. The 40 hour test from May 6 to May 8 1916 showed encouraging results as Navy communications ran on a war basis. John J. Carty praised the U S Navy's mobilization power through wireless telephony. Some ships already had wireless gear installed.
The mountain lion also known as the panther cougar and puma is a slender nine foot long predator weighing 150 to 200 pounds. Though powerful it is timid toward people and is blamed for livestock losses, especially young horses, hindering horse breeding in Western states and Mexican tablelands.
A letter from a tank admirer extols the British combat vehicle claiming it can imprison prisoners, print and deliver, chew barbed wire into munitions, topple trees and houses, catch live shells with caterpillar feet, serve as submarines, loop the loop, and perform any task imaginable, asserting tanks can do anything.
Popular Mechanics Magazine outlines a plan under which every household would keep an official housekeeper's book. Shopkeepers would log food purchases, and after a set date no food could be sold without an official passbook. The book would cost 2 cents and up, list adults and children, and separate columns would track types of food. Old books would be returned and inspected before new ones are issued.
The article lists a soldier's daily ration: bread 18 ounces butter 0.5, jam 1.28, potatoes 20, bacon 12, beans 24, lard 0.64, salt 0.64, pepper 0.04, vinegar 0.16, coffee 1.12, sugar 3.2, evaporated milk 5 ounces. It totals 4199 calories, second only to Russia's 4929. French 3340, British 3292, German 3147.
A Popular Science Monthly note describes a straw hat designed for extreme weather. The top can be inverted to reveal a folded waterproof cover that shields the entire upper surface, normally hidden under a cloth lining tightened by an elastic band.
A dialogue questions the compatibility of marriage with a woman who sued a man for breach of promise and a court award discussed. The exchange probes social judgment and legal action in a sharpened rivalry.
The American Penman argues that after the war the U S should adopt international weights and measures. He notes Europe and South America use the meter gram and liter and criticizes reliance on yard pound and gallon. He laments city errors in familiar measures and the drift from dry measure.
A prominent English gun maker unveils a vertical two barrel shotgun, stacked one above the other. Proponents claim easier aiming as barrels do not sit on the line of sight, with reduced muzzle profile allowing quicker target acquisition. The stock fore end supports a firm grip, and a single trigger with a specialized lock enables a light pull.
The diagonek by J A Jordan in the Wide World describes a huge unclassified aquatic monster in Lake Victoria Nyanza and its tributaries. It resembles an extinct Mesozoic dinosaur but no bones or skin specimens exist. Eyewitness testimony supports its existence, while origin remains uncertain.
A man and woman reunite at sunset in a dramatically romantic scene. He notes the day feels long because it is the 21st of June, as they exchange intimate words and declare their bond.
Police in Korea investigate a circulating legend about a nine tailed fox appearing as a woman who visits in the evenings. She allegedly tells children fortunes by licking their hands, causing fatigue in the youngsters and prompting housewives to lock gates at dusk. The fable unsettles rural communities.
The federal Employees' Compensation Commission launches a Safety First campaign in cooperation with the National Safety Council of Engineers to reduce accidents in navy yards arsenals and other government establishments.
W. R. Cravens physician and surgeon at Northside Public Square holds office hours 11 to 12 and 1 to 3 and 1 to 8 at residence 63 with office phone 28 and 209. James M. Hudscon lawyer operates at the Southwest corner of the Square in Bloomfield Indiana.
Trustees announce business hours for Richland and Jackson townships in Greene County Indiana. John W. Jackson will transact in A. B. Titus Building near Allen Williams' store daily except Sunday. William Radcliff will hold township business at his residence on Tuesdays and Fridays and in Quensburg on the last Saturday each month.
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