People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — BRCOK. [ARTICLE]

BRCOK.

BY OBSERVER.

Canning factory and tomatoes are a popular subject of conversation. Messrs. E. G. Jones and R. E. Hershman talk of attending school in the spring. Several of our young bloods are attending court this week. We have a new prosecutor. See? Mr. David Ginan returned from the canal work in 111. He has a winters job at $2.50 per day. Boy will you work? Rev. H. Snider will begin a protracted meeting at No. 7 church this week. He is an able speaker and will pay all to’hear him in a series of sermons. Mr. Geo. Conn is treating the hoys to cigars this week. A fine large boy to call him O’nights is the occasion of the expense. Mr. Ira Forrey near town is bad sick w r ith typhoid fever. He had his trunk packed and his linner ready to start to Danville, [nd., to school and took sick in tne night. , Since our last writing we have j had the misfortune to lose two' >f our friends and neighbors in ■he throes of death. Mrs. John vlcCabe passed peacefully away Thursday morning, Dec. 6, at 6 i. m. surrounded by her family md relatives. She leaves behind a loving husband and five children to mourn her loss. Mr. VlcCabe buried his oldest girl in Oct. and now his wife, it seems like the hand of fate was set against him. Mr. Daniel Lathrop died Friday eve. at 4 o'clock leaving ng a wife, son and daughter to nourn him. He was laid to rest Sunday. The funeral services vere conducted from the U. B. shurch. Rev. Snyder officiatng. The canning factory is a settled fact as the cite is located ■nd the work of building will ■egin some time next week. Mow the farmers can begin to prepare to raise tomatoes. It vill be one of the best and largest factories in this part of the state. The men who are pushing this enterprise deserve the conidence and esteem of the people >f Brook and vicinity.