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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1920
Page
8
Local items recount holiday homecomings from Brook and nearby areas. Families and friends, including Irwin, Héss, Cory, Crudden, Lyons, Sunderland, Fores, and Jones, visit relatives in Chicago and Jacksonville over Christmas. Merchants advertise goods and specials as the season unfolds.
Christmas visitors gather across Brook and nearby. families from South Bend, Scott City, Winona, and Portland share celebrations. Job ads push permanent sales opportunities with Watkins Products. Allen Hart, LaVerne, and others travel to Indianapolis and Wisconsin on business and family visits.
Brook A. A. and Boswell Commercials clashed in a fast game with Brook starting slow but making a late push. Staton led Brook with eight points while Boswell’s Hawkins and Farr contributed key baskets as Boswell won 26 to 16. Several local families and guests were noted in holiday schedules and upcoming community events were listed.
Purdue University Experiment Station starts two large feeding trials with Shortlorn steers to test cottonseed meal as a protein source and to compare corn and sorghum silage economics. A hog trial with 70 head evaluates fibre impact on ration efficiency, noting corn and tankape as the best pastured feed. Also, a large Purdue farmers short course is planned January 10 to 14 with multiple topical tracks and exhibits. An auction lists 78 head of livestock and farm goods to be sold at Frank Beagley & Son near Enos, Indiana, with terms described.
Glenn H Leopold and D R Irer & 80n hosted family and friends including Mrs Kiyde Ricker Albert and Lt Truesdale from Culver Military Academy. Joe Hurst returns to Chicago. Rebecca Block visits Redland and Southern California. Meeting of Farmers Mutual Insurance Company set at the Library next Tuesday at one. Brook vs Lowell game on Thursday January 4.
Brookys Lowell reports an old fashioned winter after Christmas snow. Six inches lay on the ground and two inches on trees and vines. Streets resembled Christmas trees with cotton rope decorations. Plumbers fix water pipes as towns recover. A note from Brook A. A. in Medaryville mentions a year end meeting at 8:00 PM in Collsay.
A bank robbery at Culver ends with three bandits surrendering after a street shootout. Byers drives away wounded and is arrested. two accomplices in the automobile flee. Indiana Federation of Farmers to push a nonsectional legislative program with Purdue backing. efforts include county agents and Federated Marketing Service expansion.
Obituary continues detailing Merrifield life from 1875 purchase of eighty acres in Newton County Indiana to his marriage and four children Maude Harry Starry Hugh Earl. Notes welfare of wife, service to country and neighbors, and Christian character. Survivors listed include wife and four children sister Augusta Redway brother Hollis and two infant siblings. Funeral at Methodist Episcopal Church with burial in Brook Cemetery. Local families hosted Christmastide gatherings and visitors from Iroquois and Lafayette areas mentioned.
Real estate records show transfers in Kentland and Medaryville including names such as J. Dodson Mary Rhodes Frank Schuster and Charles Tarbell with parcels like Lot 17 Block in Fair Ground Add original plats and S E Lee 23 Grant Two. Transactions dated 1920 1929 involve prices from 10 to 3900 dollars and adjourned listings amid other notices. Local social notes mention Brook Medaryville and Harkrider relatives visiting in nearby towns.
An 1900s home remedy advertisement from The Grand Aid Co of Wayne Indiana promotes Glando with promises of curing coughs and preventing pneumonia or bronchitis. It claims a user gained flesh after taking two bottles and urges families to keep the medicine on hand for children and adults alike.
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