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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1921
Page
8
Local notes from Lafayette recount turkey dinners, holiday visits, and family updates. Mentions of Bloomington upgrades, Epworth League social postponement, and quip on quail clerks with sidearms. Christmas gatherings include Rexall Calendar ads and railroad line wish. Stockholders meet January 16 at 2 30 PM. 49 attend merchants dinner with gifts for children.
The article lists numerous households gathering for Christmas and holidays, detailing travels and visits. Names include Glenn Staton, Mary Thayer, Clade Herrimann, Louis Reed family, Q. Miles Jackson, Earl Corbett, Alvin Thayer, Meggie McKinney, Roy Bowers, Flora Ella and Grace Lyons, Marion Adair, and many others visiting relatives in Fowler, Paxton, Kankakee, Watseka, JoHet, and nearby towns.
A description of deaconess homes across Europe, their work in hospitals, shelters, schools, and day nurseries, and the postwar reconstruction role funded by American sister organizations. It notes New York headquarters, broad networks from Petrograd to Constantinople, and a World Service Campaign to aid European relief centers despite poverty and staff depletion.
A puzzling tale of 200 dollars sent 700 miles by various means to 100 pastors and their families around Moscow yields 200,000 rubles per pastor. Dr A Morehead, European Commissioner, meets a Moscow merchant in Berlin who offers confidential courier services to the bishop. The journey includes Balt ic and Volga routes with hardships and rusted gear as the narrative traces gifts and religious aid in an academic tone.
A long obituary notes veteran editor Kitt, married to Hattie Spoor in 1886, with children Charlotte, Fred, Spoor, and Mary. A Republican with strong local influence, he was famed for wide reading in history and psychology, especially Hudson and Darwin. Funeral held Monday. many mourners. library reports busy day with reading lists prepared for Bragh school.
Cordial invitation to a series of dancing and skating events at Nu Joy Kentland Indiana. Dates include Friday December 30 with Lawson Five, Tuesday January 3 Hard Time Dance Myste by Community Four, and Wednesday January 4 with prizes for best costumes. Admission is 1.00 with spectators free for ladies. skating nights 25 cents, spectators 10 cents.
WILL H. CHAI G argues in an auditor report that state government runs 54 departments with many subunits and rising costs. He notes receipts of 22 045 948 and expenditures 21 048 403 for year ending Sept 30 1924, leaving a balance, while the following year shows a deficit as disbursements exceed receipts by 1 578 907. He criticizes higher salaries and maintenance increases, questions worth of fish and game spending, and calls for trimming an expansive payroll across agencies and boards.
Notice to the public that the administrator of the estate of Augustus A Yeoman will sell at public sale at the late residence in Newton township Jasper county Indiana. The auction on Wednesday January 4 1921 features livestock including horses cattle sheep sows hogs and bees, farm equipment, crops and miscellaneous personal property. A 2 percent cash discount and six percent interest on terms with approval of the clerk. Auctioneers W A McCurtain and Charles G Supitler. Lunch by Willing Workers.
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