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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1917
Page
2
The Bloomfield Democrat published in Greene county Indiana announces its weekly and semi weekly editions and lists subscription rates and advertising prices. It notes W L Slinkard as proprietor and editor and indicates second class mail status in Bloomfield Indiana.
State petitions note Roberts parole revoked for indecent conduct before children and visiting saloons. Harmon case dismissed for lack of arrest. Worthingteen Building Assn versus Bert Harris foreclosed with plaintiff awarded $299.63. Blevins divorce from Sarah E. Blevins granted. Jennie City divorce from Roscoe City dismissed. Summers divorce granted with name change to Dempsey. Rose divorce dismissed. Hunt divorce granted with custody of two minors.
A legal brief notes new civil suits filed naming Corbin as plaintiff against Daniel Workman. The records indicate standard complaint actions seeking remedies or damages in state court. Further details on claims or jurisdictions are not provided in the excerpt.
Lydia Bennett versus Stanley Bennett seeks divorce on cruel treatment. Etta Holt and others sue William Johnson and others in a quiet title action. James Karsell et al. bring an accounting claim against Moses Cardwell et al. Debates over alleged insults and nagging appear in the Lagle matter.
Fifty men sought for general helper roles on a transmission line. Steady employment offered by Indiana Power & Water Company. Premium wages. Also offerings from Sanitary Bakery advertise cakes made to order.
Reports detail the Fanny Prescott attacked and towed by a submarine after crew abandonment, amid war zone dangers. A German sub engaged a U S Senate and House delegation steamer off Wales, sinking beneath its gunfire. The first German POW died in No Man’s Land after a patrol encounter. Pershing’s batteries answered shell for shell, while Second Liberty Loan eyes a record five billion. Hoover warns cattle yards and grain elevators face a German plot, urging tight guarding nationwide. Eight French officers arrive in New York for eventual deployment to U S training camps.
The Rangeley stream near Haines Landing Missouri imposes a daily limit of one fish and fly fishing only to protect its famed Rangeley trout stock. This water produced the 12 pound Page trout in 1867, a record for nearly fifty years before the 14 pound Nepigon trout surpassed it.
Notice is given that an election will be held in Bloomfield Indiana on Tuesday November 6 1917 to elect Town Clerk Treasurer and Town Trustees for First and Second Wards. Voting places are North Precinct in the northeast first floor room of the new Masonic building and South Precinct in the first floor room of the Simon Lehman building. Witnessed by Albert B Titus President and Walter T Brown Town Clerk Treasurer.
Hoover in Washington will cut off supplies to retailers for profiteering until war end. A November 1 regulation bans manufacturers and wholesalers from selling to retailers who seek unreasonable profits or buy food for speculation. Counts and trials tied to German propaganda and sedition noted through the report.
Personal Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor former representative from the Eleventh Ohio district died at his home in Athens Ohio aged eighty four. Congressman Charles Martin renowned figure in Chicago political life died at his son James Martin's home in Chicago.
British casualties for the week total 24 091 with 883 officers killed and 4 656 wounded. Austro German forces occupy Udine and press toward the Tagliamento as Italys third army retreats along the Adriatic coast. Commodore Luckner is captured near Fiji. Seeadler crew taken. German and French actions yield prisoners and territorial gains across multiple fronts.
Community merchants urge support for the Sanitary Bakery as part of a push to build up home industries. Officials tout locally produced goods and job creation tied to the bakery's expansion.
Washington action records the appointment of Washington Russell C. Leffingwell a New York lawyer assisting McAdoo as special counsel to the Liberty loan who becomes assistant secretary of the treasury. The piece also notes regulatory moves licensing enemy patents for US use and leadership changes in the War Department. It mentions wage boosts for coal miners and a 45 cent per ton coal uplift. It ends with a Wilson call for public support to the administration.
Delegates from over 1 000 dairies in Boone Winnebago and McHenry counties oppose the proposed 3 71 dollar November milk price and demand change. Ten stevedores are missing and a Baltimore waterfront blaze damages cargo ships as German prisoners escape Fort McPherson is involved in a justice department capture operation.
Disclosures reveal Germany sought to keep markets in Argentina open to Germany, detach Rio Grande do Sul from Brazil, and foster Chilean ties. Count Tetxbueg, Germany’s envoy to Buenos Aires, believed by August 4 he could secure a submarine squadron to achieve these aims. Notes were published in Washington.
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