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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1921
Page
8
A ragged column records names and travels around Brock and nearby towns. Mentions John Cochran, Carl Bud James, L E Lyons, Howard Snyder, and Mrs Thomas Martin among others, with visits to Kentland Oxford Chalmers Lebanon and Morocco. Notes sales offers, farm wanted, and local business ads, plus hospital and birthday items and a new optometrist location in Rensselaer.
The ball players case may be abandoned as Cicotte Jackson and Williams repudiate confessions and refuse to testify citing constitutional rights. Without their testimony the state has scant evidence to proceed.
Terre Haute records three distinct earthquake shocks as winter recedes and spring hints appear. A letter from Mrs. Thorpe Tenglop mentions Waco Texas, blooming trees, oil wells, and growing crops while locals plan for Oats and lilacs. Temple Theater advertises Mary Pickford in Pollyanna next week.
Melvin Foltz longtime Hebron city clerk and custodian at the Christian Church in Hammond hangs himself in the church basement. No reason given. Foltz was a leading figure in local Masonic circles and Hebron civic life.
Reading railway halted all freight trains on its lines except perishables to cut costs. Passenger services continued as normal. Reports say Reading plans to hire more staff soon.
Indiana law takes effect banning bass and bluegill fishing from April 30 to June 16 each year. Violations incur fines from ten to fifty dollars and up to ten days in jail per offense. Community sale announced in Brook, Indiana with old papers for sale at the Reporter Office.
Kentland Enterprise honors William Henry Burton a long time Newton county resident and Civil War veteran born March 7 near Irvine Kentucky. He moved to Newton county after Beaver Lake settlement and Milk's ranch formation, helped develop the Lake Village area, served as county recorder, and remained active in Republican affairs with a wide circle of friends.
Indianapolis columns chronicle evangelist Gipsy Smith and a chorus of 41,000 as he presses revival lessons. He condemns overorganization in churches, calls for honesty, renewal, home faith, and renunciation of materialism while urging prayer and action among pastors, families, and congregations.
The W. T. U. meeting in Kent gathered sixteen Brook representatives on a Wednesday evening. Miss Clara Sears of Indianapolis and Rep. J. D. Rich of Brook spoke on organization work and legislative issues affecting the W. C. T. U. efforts, with a large county turnout.
Indiana newspaper item reports Governor McCray leaving for a week's absence to work out potential office changes with a small circle of elite friends away from political pressures at the Statehouse.
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