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Newspaper
Brook Reporter
Location
Brook, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1922
Page
8
A collage of social items lists visits and calls in the Rose Lawn district and nearby towns. Mentions include Verne Snyder, Roy White, Anna Hanson of Momence, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Cunningham, Louis Drackeman, and A. D. Babcock. Births, visits, and family gatherings are noted alongside local business and community updates.
Epworth Leagues from Remington Kentland Morocco and Brook Districts attend a Bruce chapter hosted group meeting at the Methodist church in Lynch Remington on Friday April 28. About six o clock guests arrive with baskets and pap and sign in. The program features a welcome address Rev Hargraves and songs by Lacayette district delegates with a question box and devotional talk.
Hall of Brook Rebekah Lodge No 552, Brook Indiana, drafts resolutions of respect for Sister Katherine Hawkins. The text honors her warm heart and noble life, requests mourning draping of the charter for thirty days, and asks publication in Brooks Reporter. It also expresses sympathy to her husband and friends and notes the lodge record.
Bloomington May 4 President and Mrs Warren G Harding joined 27000 Indiana University alumni for a foundation day reception at the White House May 1 honoring Dr William Lowe Bryan and the university. The party included W A Alexander librarian and director of the state memorial campaign Miss Helen Colinet and several students. Senators New and Watson organized the event. Indiana alumni groups visited cities in the East. The Indiana University contingent later attended foundation day events in Washington Philadelphia Boston New York and Cleveland. Over the Hill Temple Theatre Friday Matinee and Night.
Library Week across Indiana featured elaborate programs as public libraries gain educational standing. Miss Harriet Root of the State Public Library Commission visited Brook Public Library, with officials noting the commission’s yearly visits aid library boards and staff. Country schools reported a total circulation of 683 as records from teachers’ reports came in, and Mary Potter of Trensselaer earned gold at a Delphi reading contest for her work on Take It From Dad.
Farmers urged to record their farm names in the county recorder's office to boost recognition for livestock or grain quality. A large book is devoted to this purpose, with pages still available for entries to aid advertising.
Prairie View Stock Farm in Mc Clellans township ranks among the nation’s largest stock feeding plants. Manager Walter C. Hadden reports eleven hundred cattle and about one thousand hogs requiring constant attention. The operation spans thousands of acres, with corn and small grains grown on marginal soil, and the main tract covers three thousand five hundred acres, plus about a thousand more under similar management.
County agent notes late summer hog markets dominate profits for spring pigs. Historically November through January show lower prices, while July to September peak. Over twenty years, September to December averages drop about $1.40 per hundred. Also mentions B S baseball season opener and Independent NH B team practices amid strong local schedules.
A Roll of Honor carried about 40 miles by Nickel Rasmussen of Kankakee township was found in his East Walker pasture. It is believed to have belonged to Emalena Dillon, Newton county’s young woman killed with her mother when their Mt. Ayr area home exploded in a cyclone last week. The paper, dated 1920 and presented by Supt. Trinkle of Paoli township, Silver County, is to be returned to San Pierre, Lad, R-1, if relatives wish to claim it.
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