Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1912 — Items of Interest From The Brook Reporter. [ARTICLE]

Items of Interest From The Brook Reporter.

Willis Gridley sold his farm to Sylvester Brees at $l5O per acre, and in turn purchased the Tom Davis farm, north of Brook, at $155 per acre. Mrs. Henry Barton, of Goodland, but formerly of this place, died at a Chicago hospital Tuesday, after being operated on and as limb removed. She had been afflicted with gangrene and theroperation was the last resort, but she did not survive the shock. A new ditching machine is being tried out by Lyons & Light The machine digs a trench for tile ranging in size from six to twenty-nine inches, and will dig from forty to eighty rods a da>. So far the work has been most satisfactory. The motive power is a gasoline engine. . Newt Park and family arrived from Hampton Roads Sunday night and will make an extended visit with his parents. Newt has spent twelve years in the navy and still has not enough of it and will re-enlist at the end of his viacation. He has held down a position in the hospital section. He returned from the Panama canal zone only a few days before he came here.