Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1907 — NEPHEW OF MRS. GOFF DROWNED [ARTICLE]

NEPHEW OF MRS. GOFF DROWNED

Walter Brown, the 16-yearstold son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Ballinger Brown, of Crown Point was drowned Satai day afternoon at about 3 o’clock, in a small lake inside the half mi e race track at? the Crown Point fair grounds. He was a nephew of Mrs. Geo. W. Goff, and his sister. Miss Eva Brown, was visiting here, at the home of a riri nd, Miss Fannie Porter. The particulars of the drowning have not been received but it is un- ■ derstood that several boys were swimming and that the Brown boy had trown up his arms and cried for help as he sank. He did not come to the surface and it was not known by the relatives here whether or not the body was recovered. Mrs. Goff went there Sunday in company with the drowned boy’s sister, and Monday morning Mr. G iff and Mrs. Bert Goff and Miss Fannie Porter left to i>e present for the funeral, which will be held Tuesday, if the body has been recovered.