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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1917
Page
1
A brief notes section records local events and personal milestones across the town. Residents attend gatherings, birthdays, and small community happenings with neighbors sharing news of daily life and neighborhood activities.
A roundup of residents and visitors in the area's towns reports Mrs Dora Klinger and Cris C Sizemore on Saturday business trips, Miss Nell Shirts visiting New Albany, and many exchanges among Center Township, Patoka, Martinsville, Lyons, Danville and Jasonville. Several locals enlist or are called to service, with Fred DeVilbiss joining Battery F at Fort Benjamin Harrison and Willard Hollowell entering the signal service reserve. Dignitaries travel, relatives host, and farm life continues amid community ties across multiple towns.
The pastor J. D. Smith has been granted a vacation for the month of August and will likely stay at home with a few short trips. Mid week prayer meetings, Sunday school and Epworth League will continue. The Epworth League met last Sunday at the Cham berlains’ home, an open air gathering led by Mrs. Alta Edwards and well attended.
Indiana Power and Water Company seeks to cut electric light and power rates in Bloomfield Bicknell Worthington Elnora and Edon. A Public Service Commission hearing is set for Monday August 6 1917 at 9 00 a m in room 121 State House Indianapolis. The company cites overpricing and requests reductions and changes in both power and light charges.
An Oklahoma editor recalls an old Indian who pays for a newspaper and demands a receipt. The Indian insists on proof, saying he will face St. Peter at the gates and must show he paid the editor, or else he will search everywhere for the receipt.
Indiana University plans to adapt much of its work for the military emergency. Fall semester begins September 18 with special courses in military training and drill for freshmen and sophomores, and an officers’ qualification program in Military Science and Practice.
Mrs. Harriet A. Duncan of Sonora Ark arrived Friday night to visit her brother C B Knapp and family. After an eleven year separation they enjoy a joyful reunion. Knapp is eighty six and Duncan seventy eight yet active. She left here after marriage in a house now torn down for a garage on North Washington street. She has lived on the Ozark farm near Sonora for twenty nine years since her husband’s death. She lives alone with seven dogs and a horse and recently visited Bedford relatives.
Morgan Pigg of Vicksburg died after a passenger train struck his automobile near West Linton. He suffered severe injuries including leg loss, a broken arm, a fractured skull, and internal injuries, and died shortly after at Linton City Hospital.
IndianapolisJuly 28 The State Fire Marshal mails a warning to fifteen hundred grain elevators flour mills and canning factories urging strict fire prevention daily routines. Inspect private firefighting gear and remove rubbish oily waste and debris to avoid hazards and aid national conservation efforts. Now is the time to act.
Mary Isabel Scott born July 25 1845 near Freedom Indiana died July 22 1917 after a long illness. Daughter of Dr Anderson J Munich and Mary, wife of Jerome B Scott, mother of twelve with four infant deaths, has many grandchildren and great grandchildren. The family moved from Kansas frontier to Illinois Freedom and Newberry with strong Methodist faith and Christian motherhood remembered by kin.
A funeral service for Mary E Edington includes lengthy list of relatives from Freedom, Chicago, Farmers Jas. Munich, Patricksburg, and Linton. The piece also notes the death of Clarence Floyd Flater, age one, with service by Rev. J. D. Smith and burial at Grand View cemetery. Mary Edington, born 1868 in Martin County, died July 8 1917 after a life on a farm near Koleen and raising nine children. Her faith and prayers are highlighted as her legacy.
A new time card for trains on the BE and I railroad became effective July 30 and is published in this issue.
County Clerk E K Ashcraft and the Greene county board led by Sheriff Moss and Dr T R Cook are verifying names from Governor Goodrich for the draft. After duplicates and errors are fixed the first list will be posted at the courthouse and notices sent to those named. about half will pass the physical exam per government estimates. The initial 592 names are drawn and will be called in squads of 197 each day across three days starting five days after posting. exemptions are limited to dependents.
The Thimble Club meets Mondays and Wednesdays at the G A R hall to sew for Red Cross relief. Allegra Music Club hosts a gathering at Miss Mina Blackmore and Miss Nellie Blackmore's home. Navy League-backed Colonial picture show Thursday donates proceeds for knitting yarn for sailors. Campfire Girls sell tickets. samples of finished knit items will be displayed. Call Mrs T A Henderson for full project details.
Mrs. Mary Hunley well known in Bloomfield dies at her Terre Haute home after a brain hemorrhage. Widow of J. B. Hunley she survived by four children and is mourned by sisters Harriett Herzog and Thos Van Buskirk. Funeral date pending arrival of a son from Pocatello Idaho. Relatives from Bloomfield travel to Terre Haute.
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