People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — Brook Depot Burned. [ARTICLE]

Brook Depot Burned.

Brook, Jan. B.—Can you—fall on the icy walk? Corn shelling'is the principal occupation of the farmer now. Revival meetings at the M. E. church. Attendance slim so far. B. W. Pumphrey spent Sunday in Rensselaer with his parents. The canning factory is now under roof and will be a tine structure when completed. Mr. Goble is now established in his new tonsorial parlor and ready to do first class work. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Warr are conducting business at the McMillen restaurant in absence of Mr. and Mrs. McMillen, who are visiting in the south part of the state. Last Saturday morning at 2:20 a. m., the citizens were awakened from peaceful slumbers by the tremendous whistling of a locomotive and upon looking out found the depot wrapped in flames. It was burned to the ground* and the report is that S6OO was in the depot. Luckily it was very still and no other buildings were burned. Observer. If you *have ulcerated teeth and want them saved, call on me at the Makeever House, in Rens selaer, Jan. 15, 16, 17 q.nd 18. My prices are in reach of the very poorest. Dr. C. R. KuDSBUtfG.