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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1893
Page
3
Greene county news lists residents and travelers in town, store notices, and upcoming sales around Bloomfield and Switz City. It mentions James Ollera Switz City, Mack Oliphant Linton, and Laura Axe Tulip among others, plus auctions by Vaughan and property listings.
Brazil Ledgerwood and Samuel Harbin must serve 6 seventeen years each in state prison for the alleged burning of the Daviess county courthouse on October 7, 1801. A sensational trial followed with charges a county official hired them to destroy records. The lower court had given seven-cen years. the Supreme Court affirmed. The O’Donald Murder Case follows. The jury found Ben O’Donald guilty of manslaughter in the murder of John Cochran and sentenced him to two years in state prison. A new trial motion is pending and he remains free on bond. obituary. Robert Harrison Burnett, born April 26, 1813 in Marion county Kentucky, died February 25, 1895 after eight days illness. He joined the Baptist church in 1858, moved to Kansas in 1870, returned to Indians in 1877 with a church letter, and lived with nephew Henry T. Neal for the last fourteen years. He was a noted citizen with no enemies.
A public notice sheet urges merchants to print warnings and sale restrictions. It promotes a “Golden Specific” cure for drunkenness claiming permanent cure, outlines addresses in Cincinnati and quotes age limits on tobacco and alcohol sales.
A county superintendent led an educational column with a February exam set titled Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. It asks applicants to answer six questions on literature, pedagogy, brain function, reading methods, arithmetic problems, geography, and history. The item includes a Banks poem excerpt and instructions for reading aloud to a county superintendent.
Questions cover scale on map use, International Date Line location, topics in Mathematical Geography, factors changing isothermal lines, wind patterns in the torrid zone, New England occupations and why, Australia’s leading exports and climate peculiarities, and Europe drainage systems.
Agricultural notes from Rural New Yorker editor E S Carman announce three new potato varieties No. 1 early, No. 2 intermediate, and No. 3 late praised for high yields and quality. Farm Poultry capons are discussed along with milking stools and vegetable trials at Oregon station.
An Iowa farmer advises soil preparation for corn, oats, potatoes, and wheat. He recommends fall plowing six inches deep, barnyard manure, and thrice spring cultivation with a disk harrow. For oats and barley, he stresses rich ground and rotation, then sowing in spring. Potatoes need rich, mellow ground. plant mid September.
Instructions advise applying one load of green stable manure per acre and turning it deeply into the furrow. Suggest placing a lasting fertilizer such as coarse ground bone in the bottom of the furrow. Future surface manurings are recommended to improve the top soil.
Sawdust from any timber has little manurial value unless fully decomposed. It helps loosen stiff clay soils and, when rotted, provides plant food. Use as stable bedding first to absorb liquid manure, then compost with barnyard manure for eventual fertility gain. Resinous wood sawdust and fresh yellow pine sawdust may be harmful or inert in soil.
A reader describes a careless gravel walk built with pounded stone that erodes under frost and foot traffic. The cross section shows stones beneath a gravel layer, with frost and wear loosening the gravel and then the stones, creating raised points.
The article describes gravel and stone walk cross sections, noting deterioration of poorly built walks over years. It advocates the Telford rec method with stones set on edge and larger ends down, using fine broken stone to wedge and firm the bed, making the surface harder with each vehicle pass.
A Kansas City reader reports using Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure on a 19 month old with frequent croup attacks. The testimonial claims it prevents attacks and expresses confidence in the remedy. The missive is dated November 1892 and is from Sylvan Remedy Co.
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