People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — BRCOK. [ARTICLE]

BRCOK.

BY OBSERVER.

Farmers done husking. Weather very damp and gloomy. Everybody reports a good time Thanksgiving. Mr. E. Packson returned Tuesday from Springfield, Ill.,.where he has been visiting his mother. A. C. Pumphrey spent Thanksgiving in Rensselaer with his parents. The box supper at the town hall Thanksgiving night was not a great financial success, as they did not do as well as some of the country schools. * B. W. Pumphrey is doing a good business with the Educational Publishing Co., of Chicago, and any one wanting school-room helps will do well to call on or address him as he has the agency of Newton Co. The canning factory Com. returned Saturday night and gave a flattering report. They are all enthused over the result of the investigation and it seems certain of success. It will not only be a benefit to the town but it will be a benefit to the farmers who can raise tomatoes.