Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1916 — Items That Will Interest You From The Brook Reporter. [ARTICLE]

Items That Will Interest You From The Brook Reporter.

Jacob D. Rich was in Goodland on Monday evening finishing his chapter degree in Masonry. Mrs. T. P. Woodson and little children went to Greencastle Saturday for a few d&ys’ visit with her parents. The wedding of James G. Lyons and Miss Frances H. Hays occurred at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hays, on Saturday evening, Feb. 26th. Miss Rose Mayhdw returned to Brook on Monday from a two weeks’ visit with friends and relatives in this state and Illinois. Newt Parks and faipily have moved from San Francisco, where they were stationed during the exposition, to Seattle, Wash. Last week Neely Wilson purchased the Ryan Real Estate and Insurance agency and building at Monticello and will install his brother-in-law, Ed Childers, in charge of the 1 ' office. The fixtures arrived the last of the week for the E. E. Hess Drug Co., and are being installed. Some of tJhe moving started Wednesday but will not be completed before the last of the week. The Methodist minister and wife came to Brook Monday and while driving near the Bossung and Merchant store the horse became frightened and upset the buggy, throwing the occupants out. The animal ran east on Main street until stopped at the hitch sack. The buggy was a wreck but no one was injured. Uncel John Foresman got a bad fall Sunday morning while making a trip to the cellar. He hardly knows how it happened only that he missed the step and pitched forward from a height of about 8 feet. He has a few cuts on the (head and his right knee is badly bruised and the left one cut. While not serious the effect will likely keep him from moving around for some time. On Monday and Tuesday the water mains wdre tested out now you can use them as soon as you connect up. The power seems ample and so far no leaks have developed. From now ofl wprk will be done on tapping and connecting houses for private use in the north section of town and the mains in the other sections will be laid as rapidly as possible. Tuesday the Lyons bunch shipped 16 carloads of cattle to the east. They were sold to Edward Woodward, country buyer for Swift & Co., of Chicago. This is the same party who bought 21. carloads of cattle from the same parties last April, only this year no cattle were sold except from the Lyons farms and none of the Newton county farms were represented in the deal except the Foresman farm, where Sant Kemper raised the winning bunch of three loads this year. His cattle weighed over 1500. The check called for over $32,400, and the price paid was $8.60. There were 21 loads sold to the same concern last year for over $41,000, and the price was $8.30, but several cars of these belonged to other parties. These were all heavy cattle and averaged over 1450.