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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1889
Page
3
Local notes from Bloomfield Indiana cover Fourth of July events, gas strikes at Sullivan, land and building sales, new businesses, and public notices. Reports mention Worthington celebrations, town improvements, harvest updates, and upcoming July 27 tariff reform meeting in Greene county. Articles list rentals and loans, farm activity, and school progress including Worthington Jefferson township support.
The note urges readers to remain home through July as a public guidance message. It stresses continued caution and emphasizes observance of stay at home norms during the upcoming holiday period.
Local items report Greene County Tariff Reform League leaders, farm sales west of the river, Adventist farm concerns, and education notes. Newberry normal and Bloomfield lodge announcements, street tidiness asks, court outcomes, and county superintendent events are summarized with names like Routt property, Connersville, Solsberry, and Indianapolis.
Local items report fines for drunkenness and jail confinement lawsuits by Matt Boswell and Ed Rainbolt, gas well ignition in Princeton, and county Sunday school plans at Union Chapel August 20 and 21. Other notices include editor Moss bond issue, Cushman school remarks, Edinburg Courier editor sale, Tariff Reform League meeting July 27, and Moss elected county superintendent secretary. Farmers urged to avoid debt and focus on fertility before expanding land holdings.
A shopper exclaims at low prices for a display of millinery with items marked One Dollar Two Dollars and Two Dollars Fifty Cents. The vendor touts the quality and urges quick purchases before rivals. The exchange emphasizes astonishing bargains and inviting trimming details.
A long list of visitors and locals stops in Greene county towns with politicians, teachers, merchants, and professionals from Linton, Washington, Bloomfield, Owen, and nearby areas. Names include J. J. Combs, Doney, Crockett, Feutz, Yockey, Ashcraft, Whallon, Allen, Lyons, O’Haver, Harrel, Carnahan, Emery, Ashcraft, Brown, Whitaker, Gray, Crow, Fields, Moss, and many more.
A report notes an overheard exchange between Fields and Buskirk as observed by a reporter. Details remain unclear and no further context is provided in the fragment.
Worth residents report a dispute between Mrs. Howe and Dr. Wilson over control of the local post office. Howe began moving in last Monday without official authorization as the fiscal year ends, while Wilson claims legal authority and denies Howe’s turnover of the office. The community notes factional tension as mounting opposition roils the transition.
In State ex rel Marcus H. Shryer et al v Board of Commissioners of Greene County the Greene circuit court rule was affirmed. The decision holds that when bridge work affects public convenience, county commissioners have sole discretion, and mandamus cannot compel repairs after they refuse.
The E and I will sell round trip tickets from Elliston to Nashville via Evansville route July 1 15 at 9.70 dollars. Tickets good returning leaving Nashville on any regular train July 16 Sept 10 inclusive. No tickets honored for passage leaving Nashville before July 16. Information available from the line agent or G J Grammar Traffic Manager.
Instruction by 8. E. Stinkard promises private or class sessions on public deportment. The program includes el ocution drills, gestures, po etic reading, and rhythmic poetry as part of the curriculum.
EuckneE Ospory, market gardener, invites buyers to his Worthington Indiana stand two blocks south of mills to view top cabbage varieties and sweet potato plants. He claims timing after June 20 to July 20 suits growers and promises guidance on insect prevention and hog cholera remedy Dead Shot as preventive and cure.
The list shows marriage licenses issued since the last report: Joseph Shores to Mahalia Hughes, David J L. Wessel to Mary A. Adama, Oliver F. Hudson to Alzonia T. Gee. An advertised medical claim offers a free remedy for consumption with return of address.
Good location and growing town offer a for sale drug store. For information inquire of Wm. M. Moss, Bloomfield, uf.
Advertisement notes Dead Shot as a trusted pain remedy for sprains bruises and neuralgia and seeks salesmen for nursery stock in Geneva New York offering salary expenses and advance on expense money. Apply at once with age to The C L Van Dusen Nursery Co Geneva NY.
Owner S W Axtell offers 534 acres for sale or trade. Any parcel from 10 to 200 acres may be sold in one body. Land includes black and clay soils, improved or unimproved, timber or cleared. Seven tracts available. owner not an agent. See for bargains.
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