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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1917
Page
2
The Bloomfield Democrat urges inviting women voters to nominate candidates in November elections. It notes women have legal voting rights and questions how primaries in towns are handled, while calling for cross party agreement and fair participation.
W L Herrington, superintendent, argues the need to care for the perpetual poor in a county infirmary. He describes the asylum as a home for the infirm and distressed, accepting all, from the worthy sick to the lowest civil urchins, and outlines the staff’s duties in births, deaths, and care for delirium tremens and drug-induced cases.
Merchant's wife reports her stomach distress improved after using Adlerika with buckthorn bark glycerine and other ingredients. She claims one spoonful gave instant relief by emptying both large and small intestines and preventing appendicitis. Guy W. Mayberry, a Newberry druggist, endorses the product.
Indianapolis Governor Goodrich signs bills including acquiring the old State Capitol at Corydon with a $50,000 payment and a three member commission. Other measures create local sanitation, education, taxation, and public works provisions, but the Montgomery State Board reorganization bill dies, and a Sunday limit for moving pictures fails.
Captain Leonard R Coppock announced from the Indianapolis District that the War Department seeks to hasten regular army enlistments. Veterans are urged to bring one man each to the Recruiting Station at the Opera House Building in Bloomfield Indiana, with only the physically fit admitted and offered travel and instruction in vigorous American manhood. Thomas Sowders in charge.
Proposed measures authorize funding or refunding indebtedness for cities and towns, plan abandonment of township high schools, reorganize the State Historical Commission with a $6000 research grant, amend bank charter protections, create a bureau of agriculture, transfer state farm assets, raise township assessor pay, fund a $350000 Indiana University medical building, amend Walnut Ridge Cemetery trustees, let county commissioners switch stone to gravel roads, set health board appeals procedures, require sworn surety for receivers, and authorize inter county highway construction.
Washington March 12 Senator Harry New receives a high order set of committee assignments as a new term senator. His portfolios include Military Affairs District of Columbia pensions claims territories census expenditures in the Interior Department forest reservations and protection of game. Senator Watson’s list covers Interstate Commerce post Office and Post Roads Pacific Islands and Porto Rico Indian Depredations Pacific Railroads Revolutionary War Claims and Transportation Routes to the Seaboard.
A young officer on a Gallipoli battleship notes Australian and New Zealand troops halt after advancing a short distance. An older officer responds they have advanced, giving a poignant wartime epitaph that stands as a solemn tribute to the Anzac soldiers.
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