Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1919 — BROOK RUNNING ON OLD TIME [ARTICLE]

BROOK RUNNING ON OLD TIME

DECIDES TO PLOD ALONG HOUR BEHIND REST OF THE WORLD. i Brook, that little heaven of sunshine and rest just over the Newton county line, usually up-to-the-minute in twentieth century matters, has slumped dreadfully and for the next eight months will be found running a whoQe Sixty minutes behind the rest of*this busy, restless, world. All this as a result of a petition, signed, which has beencirculating throughout Brook proper and adjacent territory. The peculiar innovation may even reach into the innermost recesses of the remainder of the county. Perhaps the attempt to be at loggerheads with the rest of the country will be thwarted in other parts of the county, perhaps not. Anyway, it’s none of our business and if our neighboring town wants to be behind the times that’s her affair, not our’s. The new Farmers’ Bureau is at work on the proposition and is leaving no stone unturned in the path of the proposed petition. The farmers greatly prefer the old working time after the experience of ilast year, and, since they prefer it, the business men of Brook prefer it that co-operate in business matters with their country brthren. ~ •So, when.you go to Brook, just slip the hands on your wrist watch back 4 whole hour or you may dazzle the staid citizenry of that metropolis witlwyour terrific pace.