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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1921
Page
4
A collection of quirky dialogue and witty snippets featuring banjos, dancers, and humorous asides. The items reference everyday observations and light banter with playful miscommunications and oddball captions.
Last Sunday the local baseball nine traveled to Rensselaer and defeated the Jasper County squad 14 to 2. Glen Staton starred on the mound for Brook with Hank Clark catching as Brook aims to climb the league standings. Local batters Carroll Staton and Cory led the Brook attack. Rensselaer scored only in the third inning. Two Irishmen anecdote ends with a joke about the rising and falling barrels.
Local notes on the Independent basketball team showing promise for this season. A cross country bike race between Wolcott and Goodland was held last Tuesday, the route from Wolcott to Moroccy with the first rider arriving at 11 52 am. A Goodland cyclist led the field before resting briefly.
Football and basketball scores listed include Parr 11 and Remington 10, Wolcott 23 and Reynolds 7, Mt. Ayr 5 and Monticello 3, Brook 14 and Rensselaer 2, with no full context or dates.
The Brook Town Board in Newton County Indiana approves a preliminary resolution to establish a private north Main street drain as a public drainage project. The plan names owner parcels and proposed assessments, appoints W S VanDerVoort as engineer and superintendent, and sets a public hearing for July 5 1921 with notices to be published June 10 and 17 1921 in the Brook Reporter.
Local residents make weekend visits and trips to nearby towns. Brook prepares to host Monticello next Sunday with league implications possible. Miscellany includes church notices, farm reports, and community movements across South Bend Logansport Indianapolis Lafayette and Frankfort.
Trustee of Iroquois Township Newton County Indianawill sell at Salem Schoolhouse in section 2 on July S at 2 PM to the highest bidder for cash not less than two thirds of appraised value. Property includes one frame schoolhouse two outhouses one coalhouse. Trustee Chas Russell reserves right to reject bids. Witness dated June 15 1921.
Notice is hereby given that the Coltin Company will sell to the highest bidders on July 2, 1921 at 2:00 a.m. at the Foresman schoolhouse Sec 14 Iroquois Township Newton County Indiana. Two outbuildings a coal house a stove and a bell included. Cash payment not less than two thirds of appraised value. Right to reject any or all bids. Witness my hand this 8th day of June 1921 Chas. Russell.
An interesting experiment grows plants on an old sponge. Soak the sponge, fill its pores with a mix of creas mustard tape wheat and flax seeds, then suspend it in a sunny warm window. In one to two weeks the sponge sprouts dense foliage. keep it moist.
Relief comes after years of cough for a Haviland Ohio boy as Grando Pine is touted by A F Sherer. The ad claims three bottles convert to one pint of syrup and urges prompt treatment to prevent lung damage. It cites uses for coughs colds bronchial issues and croup with simple preparation directions and local sale through Montgomery and Bayder.
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