The Brook Reporter from Brook, Indiana • Page 1

BROOK, NEWTON COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY JULY 14 V22 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE VOLUME XXVI. NUMBER 6 FROM OVER LOCAL fflS NAOQ STRIKES HARDIHS ISSUES TflQ Ui ANOTHER SIIU COUNTY RAIDE! BARNYARD GOLF GROWS IN FAVUI THE STATE THIS mm STRIKE WARNING UTERES! With. I ARE I I OFFICIALS i TERRITORY TO HE DRAINER TO FILL IP LAPORTE LAKE i' Wants Other lowiis hrook AM) ICIinoillNfi towns damaged storm tk: XT OK PIMM sued hy president in shopmen's strike PATH HP A J) HON WITH KlviDY 1 At 12:30 on Monday a s'orni i swept Newton County that came I buy. popcorn. Call or ii irry Lent.

IJrook. Mrs. Lyman Plood met with a serious accident on Tuesday when li; an i fell i the walk back of tee house, injuring her hi;) so that she is unable to be up and around Washington. July 12. The text Laporte, July 10.

The most important action ever taken Ly the city of Laporte to prevent the levels of its lakes from lowering further and to raise them it I The horseshoe game is rapidly Sheriff Gardner got wind of a still gaining a presi igo that it al-hout 3 miles south and west of ready has a new cognomen, Lawn and on Sunday accom- yard Golf." Th. is will not add by Ira Drake. Clauds Htrre anything to the prestige of the game wuh the force of a hurricane and of President Harding's proclama-tiv tKoniv minute it's natliwavilion. issued in the railway shop- was littered by the debris of broken men's strike, is as follows: A PROCLAMATION "Wherea. The I nited St.Uts -isl among oid ot vs.

but it may Hi windmills bent and uprooted trees and wiecked. barns down, corn and possible, came- during a meeting of the board of public works Sunday. '1 he hoard hearkened to a petition signed by S00 leading citizens and passed a resolution ordering the Raymond Hedrick. he raid 1 th place and found two stills, one of or 50 gallons capacity ami the other somewhat smaller. There was about 15 gallons of and vh-'-a: shocks road lanor noara is an agenc; oi flattened ou tarest so.ne of the new bloods.

Kensseiaer staged a match game on July 4th and it took so well that thev ire locking for cutaide worlds I government, treated by law n.rt 1 I charged with the duty of adjusting scattered over the fields. fh was no twist to We had a letter from our old Charles Hanson this week ie-newing his faith in the Keporter. Charles is still at Kankakee, Illinois We thought by this tunc he wou'fl hae been ready to leturn to old iioosierdom. but it seems not. l'l town and rotintTy or I disputes between railroa-i operators land employes engaged in urersiate mash ready for the kettle when the to conquer We suggest to them city engineer to prepare plans and i arrived.

The father and son that P.i"ok net only cleaned up on specifications for draining a large wo-ld have equalled the cyclone if last spting or exceeded storm covered a wider as ra 'isp the former the owner of the farm 'local talent but last year took their were taken into custody. The name Illinois neighbors into camp in a as near as we (ould get it over tbe ot games both here and in the co "i merco a ft 0f "Whereas. The Unbe, Kaios rail board his recently hand territory In Brook the storm left t-iiL-ied ei down -si i one a 'd 'lie .1 territory contiguous to Pine, Stone. Lilly and Cli-ar lakes and leading the water into the lakes with tile drainage M. Tucker, state hydrologist, v.

ho has been here making tests ot the underground tUnv ot water, is i known to favor the drainage project mass of limbs and trees tluTt blockad i aw 1 ed the streets in almost everv diree- i lu'r ihe contract systo The sewer tile are on the ground for the repair of the big drain leading from Highway street through the school house grounds. When tiuse are installed it is thought all wire was Czaszinsky. A hearing was held on Monday by Prosecutor Murphy at Morocco and the son tried first and acquitted The father took a continuance and "Sucker" state. Come over with a six or eight man learn and we will try and entertain you Just between ourselves if we lose we will give any wiilj outside a- L-irnot in i of shon wo I il'll in ti i i i i i 1 suffer the worst and heie the box- goncies to le contrary to th mtent it i i and e) y-o iimKv two; vcw4 of the a was hound over to the justice court deserving democrat you name (11: to-oh 'l ovir, cue at the C. E.

Sun- f- such practice mu-n i ML dancer from tree roots will be over 1 and Highway basements kept free I SUCCESSOR from water in spring rains. TO MILTKOTTEK Editor Dabcock of the Jasper under bonds of $2. GOV. years news of "our return to nor- The sj.i".l has been on exhibition i provided if you lose you at the conrthov.se in Kentland dur- I will give one of our republican coiit iirued and Whereas. The shop craft employes have elected to discontinue their work, rather than abide by the derlaml home, was torn up by the roots, taking two sections of the sidewalk with it.

All along the sticet huge limbs were from the pas; week. friends a years discussion of how tee "world was saved for denioe- Warsaw, July 11. (Spe- i runty Democrat is just home from a rv th tae.h the eastern erlain operat- de ed. aim ALVA LIGH WITH HAP racy." Dr. W.

E. P.iederwolf of the tiers and thrown across the -ciston rc street or littered the yards. North 'is nave i. a j. s.

Me gnored the decision order af i st AC ram i epori IDI'NT. We will arrange a date with on due notice. ing the abandonment of the contract shop practice; and you Monticello. widley known ean gelist, this afternoon atcepted the position of director of the Winona i Lake Iiible conference. This posi highway was almost as bad but the manic? seemed to lose limbs but the r.y in New he Li.ah'v.d state-, ill of In (onso- hsjiue.l Leg A irani I'vokcn Three Places I', in nei'-r-tate and tl in the moiu quence hen and potatoe.

trunks withstood the storm. Cheiryj "Wheras. The maintained opora-trMo unrp ri, fmnf. ubowrpr thp iion of the railways in interstate WHEAT YIELDING WELL WEIGHTS AROUND fiO LI5. a l'eaw cro: of hay tion nas been neld since the lend i of Dr.

S. C. Dickey, its founder, 'p. 'commerce and the transportation of United States mails hae necessi- vim! could reach them. Trees were itripvVi of aprdes.

The electric Mel Trotter of Grand Rapids. Midi, mission worker. lim The winter wheat crop i ili.l l-o i 1 1. Th who at On last Friday Alva Light met. with an accident that adds to his previous misfortunes.

He had taker, a load of grain to Ilunkum, Illinois -and was about half way home wire went uown with tr.o trees ine tut good in iniR section. lie iiuo'f iu iJi te'evane wires aim ii yields around 30 to 35 bushels and weights from -5S to fio pounds. John Foresman threshed ten ill. for the down town ms of the decis.on aim who trict tho town was in darkness onP'avc the san.e undpntaV.e riiht Monday night. The electric work that r'r U) tl-'-line when he stopped to chat with a neighbor.

While visiting with him id. people had a force of men at wrk; tne siue ot tne spring seat gave; way and he pitched to the ground, Dr. Piederwolf was selected for 1 chauiamiua lent do ami on Mou-the new post to lay by the Winona i day and the last lunnhors on the assembly and bible conference txtc- proa-ratn hel at ho Ciuasiim utive committee and he started his Church. All agree this was duties immediately. Dr.

Biederwolf he most chautauqiia pro served for many years as assistant igrani ever held in that city. A sur- director of the bible conference and plus of over xpcr.s. was do- for many years has been closMy as- Jiated to the Monet School oeiatad with Winona. He is head of i the Good Tidings Publishing com-j Charles Fleming was in town on pany of Chicago and was organizer i'nesday. ile nati just retnii.tvi land head of the Family Alter from Mulligan where he and his Whereas.

The perfel'nl ett lenient of controversies in iccordanro with law ami due respevt for the agencies of sncli settlement are essential to the security soon after the storm an 1 got a fewr eirrui's in operation by nightfall. afternoon the sound of tl? axe vas heard, around town, and willing workers cleared the streets acres on the home farm that yielded 2 5 bush'ils per acre and tested 61 pounds. gains arc small out plump. There was plenty of straw, but the heads were short. The wheat of Pearson Pen.

dor-grass yielded 30 bushels per acre. COURIER CHANGES HANDS landing on his head and side, hadly bruising his head, and the left leg hat was injured by a horse at a tale a few years ago was broken in three places. It was done so quickly that none of these present realized how it happened lie had his two little daughters well-being of our people; iiip hrnsh nnd wnnd 'ttorir i 1 ill Now therefore. Warren larding. President of the United the parkways.

The Brook Sales Co. hrom ht one r.f their I'ordson trac- i League of America. -o- tor. and hauled the big trees (1 llrcb' make directing all persons to relram Uf) WIMMtiilM CAUSES p.M(.r. with the law- the streets.

Wherever the wind ronl aU all interference main a interstate could reach windows direct to wife had gone for berries. While he was away the storm took the roof from the side of new home and threw it over into the iy. The rain his goods to a considerable extent. LaYerne Wils in brought in some samples of soybeans grown on their Janer county farm. The roots the carrying crashed in wh-n struck.

eral transportati on and with him and a young team on the wagon. He hung on to the Tlie Morocco Courier has been and the neighbor helped o.op th-3 to George Has'ings of team- johio and Lesley Miller has gone to He was taken home and from ji idiigan City to take up newspaper there to the hospital at Watseka. where an X-ray of the leg showed. Miller furnished the cemmunity the thigh lone broken in three plaevith tne tost iocal nows We have United States mails. Rensst laer Visited Ry Miniatm Cy- HoiiO Today IVbris Fills Streets i (Reus.

Rep.) louses were partially unroofed, "These activities ami the 'n- i a ined supremacy the law are the the government Rensst laer and vicinity were visit The Shennan White place suffered the most part of the roof was torn away and rain penetrated the building. Out in the country trees were and all the citizenship of our country. Therefore. I invite the ro-op- rat ion ot ail puinc a in noi.u-s. es.

One was a v-shaped break just ever seen in tlie town since the days above th? knee. and the others of Schanlaub. and we are sorry were closer to the hip. to sec him The new. editor has Mr.

Light whose hip was broken our b3St wishes and we hope to in the previous accident hatl just i meet him in the near future. torn bv the storm and farmers were ed by a miniature cyclone at noon are liberally covered with nitrogen today, Monday. A severe electrical nodules showing that they are storm, accompanied by a terrific doing their work for the soil now. gale of ind, wrought widespread and this winter will make good hog damage. Although nothing of a dis-! feed when the time comes.

They asterous nature has been reported, have 320 acres on which soybeans the damage to crops in the wind-iare planted with the corn. busy (luring the afternoon in clearing cards and barn lots. Windmills state and municipal, and the ant oi all good citizens to uphoi 1 the laws and to preserve the public peace. begun to get better use of it audi 0 of town suffered more than uid to facilitate these operations in THE S. K.

G. IS COMING safety which are essential to lue swept area will amount to thousands Through a misunderstanding last 00 jof dollars. In Rensselaer trees were was walking with canes instead of crutches. He has the sympathy of friends here as it is possible this last accident will permanently cripple him ti :0 east of town. Many windows were blown in.

out in the country districts, and wooden silos almost everywhere collapsed in the storm. Among (he amusing events, es the security of common public and liberty, and rreuertv and our un aim b.uiuij-. OQted extensive damage done to week we announced the and 23. the Harden goit course the enlire city: Walter Porter of Jasper dep death of county welfare. "In witness whereof will be invaded and taken ove dv a pecially after it was over, and as told i I have here caused the -o- now it very unusual organization hv b-msolf was the PvneHeo I set my hand and experience CHANGE IN LIBRARY HOARD It should have been Walter Poasler, one-time resident of Newton county, and son of Mr.

and Joshua Ponsler who for some years lived light and power system put out of commission for a time and the streets strewed with debris. In the rtrral districts corn, oats and wheat seal of the United States to le affixed "Done at the city of Washington, this 11th day of July, i the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun- Conrad K'ifncr. The storm came so qt.ickly th.at h.e had just time to reach the yard fence and grab a post, twice he tried to get up and leave this anchor but each time was caught up bv the storm and slammed were blown over, entailing a serious, in Brook, building the home now ioss to the farmres. occupied by Mr. and Mrs.

Marion storm lasted for about half Adair. as the S. F. G. meaning the Soap Fac tory Gang.

There are forty-eight members, nearly all of them residing at the different gelling centers in the State of Indiana, and in the city of Chicago. "Chick" Evans is a member. The "Gang" meets only once a year. Any member failing to appear at the meeting loses his member- The Civil town macle the new appointments on the Library Board last week. Mrs.

Anna Reed was reappointed and Bennett Lowe was appointed to take the place of John Lyons Jr. John has served faithfully for ten years and felt that he had earned a rest and the hoard di ed and twenty-two, and of the in- an hour. WOODARD RUVS MORE CATTLE down along side of the fence. Ho i dependence of the United States the finally concluded it better to lav I one hundred and forty-seventh. still and hang on to the post.

and "WARREN HARDING. said he was glad in the midst of it'K' the President. to think the post was holding fast, "CHARLES E. HUGHES, Finally in a short lull he let go and "Secretary of State." Mr. and Mrs.

LaYerne Wilson were in Goodland on Saturday. They were present at the arrival of a baby boy at the home of "Susy" Lowe. Mrs. Lowe is a sister of Mrs. Wilson.

"Susy" is stepping high as this is the first boy in the family, two girls having preceded conducted to put cen Lowe to worK snip unless be can offer some re-The pro- i again. Ben served as town treas-1 markably good encuse Six loads ot cattle were shipped from Brook on Thursday to the oast ern market by E. L. Woedard of the United Dressed Beef Co. of juror for many years but has had a grim at each meeting is exceedingly managed to make the back I complete rest for two years and I-'ALli frivolous.

All of the rules of gotf the traditions of golf etiquette are much the worse for water and wind. needs the exercise once more. 'Pop' BREAKS SHOULDER New York. Three of these loads the arrival of the young garage ex- I1LADE and any player is per Hess is the only member of the board who has never had a rest, icame from the farm of D. Rich I near Julian and were fed by Clifford mitted to go as far as he pleases in North of town where the cyclone struck last spring, this one could be scan coming with great speed and it looked like a repitition of that event and all those who could but every time he threatens to take annoying and rattling another piay Barker.

Tbcy brought $9.85. Frank Hall met with a peculiar accident just before the storm at bis home on the Joe Ade farm on one the balance of the membership er Most of the visiting members1 iOne load came from the farm of J. pert Rev. Robert Dillman came on Saturday and joined his wife in a visit at the Geo. Weishaar home and among other friends.

He has located at Swayzee, Indiana, and will take up his new work on Aug- will be yut up at iTazelden over Sat- beat him to it. He is the "Father" of the present library. He took the C. Bower and brought 59.85 while at (Monday. He left the house to handy sought the cellars.

Out 1 .3 l'l 1 Vi Bower uiu.o mfcut tnu -ui load from the John hustle out after the young chickens and the clothesline which the wind the L. O. Lyons farm a bunch of carpenters were working on the barn I farm sold for $10.00. turnea over to ttiem on bunctay. This does not mean that mejuhcrs leading part in getting the new build ing.

and developing the system since it was completed. As a public A few extras from other sources from the supporting and house that were destroyed by had loosed will be barred from the course, but adder! to the above bunch will make lust 1st. On Sunday evening he offical, we can say that be "wearies request is made that our visitors i n.mini1i th nnlnit at the Christian C' not in well doing." be given the right of way. Frobab.lv to The feeders will net good returns church The family will go our local members can have more i i i i i. rt pole caught him and threw him backward en the cement sidewalk.

He was taken to the hospital at Watseka where it was found that his shoulder blade was broken T. II HARTLEY DEAD iroul ne.Kt; us ntts i 1 1 i in i 111 tx icw un iui ci v. NOTICE TO WINDMILL' OWNERS tun tnat uav irum.u cue advaiice in the market since i weeks outing. a. 4 1, A Tirtft-iKli- horn i the cyclone.

The farsner and wife having had one experience when there was no basement, early sought the new one, but not until scaffolding and water came through the open windows and doors did the saw and hammer crowd seek safety an then they say there was a regular rain of legs and bodies coming luy ithey were shipped here for feeding, in piaying. Charles Bently wishes to notify the farmers that he will soon have plenty of Airmotor windmills in to supply the demand Look at the date on your paper! We will appreciate it. of Thomas Hartley, formerly The Goodland, but for many years a resi Albert Thompson of Kentland 1 One freak of the storm, showing jwas over for a ciiat with us on ithe force of the wTind occurred at H-j states that we were the L. E. Lyons homo.

The big I evidently worse hit by the storm i Chalmers as left under the port here than tney were jn Kentland. icochere to the west of the house, judging by results. He was ac-i When the storm was over it was companied by Malbon Hard at one-. found across the street to the north a merchant in Kentland and ti h'j rn Vmilt fro Vi met nf flic I i w. tin oi VMiei nere lie was en- house had only the siding up above Temple Moviegrams.

page) gaged in the grain business, died at the Home Hospital in Lafayette on last Tuesday. He was taken" sick (Continued to 5th on Thursday and was hurried to the XVT." T-ftn The one Mr. John B. Lyons went to Lafayette on Thursday to attend the mouthy meeting of the trustees cf the Soldiers Home. Phone News Items to 2S.

We wilr appreciate it. well known in this county Mr Hard is nov a resident of Missouri. He lost his wife just a short time ago and with his daughter was on his way home from Ohio where they Iliad taken her remains for burial. in the yard of Fred Lyons Friday, Famous Players present Betty Compson in "The End of The storm was so terriffic that no World." Saturday Max Linder in "Be My Wife." Wednesday, July 19 saw the car making the trip. Thomas Meighan in "Cappy Ricks.

Thurs. Mary Alden and Sylvia Bremer in "The Man With Two Mothers." Friday, July 21 Elsie Fer- Phone News Items to 28. guson in "Fotlights." Saturday Lon Chaney in "The Ace of Hearts." We will appreciate it. hospital for an operation from which he never rallied. lie leaves a wife and two sons.

Phone news items to 28. We will appreciate it..