1919 news

Democrat July 1919

ANOTHER PIG

Feeding Club Formed in Bath

Another Pig Feeding Club is formed in the county. Boys and girls in the neighborhood of Bath have formed a club and are starting their pigs on feed.

It is their intention to make the Brookville and Laurel clubs work for the county prize, regardless of the interest the other two are showing in the start. There are other interesting points of competition; the three girls enrolled against the 11 boys, and the nine Franklin County members against the five Union County members.

The Bath Grange is offering to pay at least $15 on the expenses of the winner of a trip to the state Club Round-Up at Lafayette next spring.

G.L. Reed, County agent

Note: Bath kids knew how to have a snortful of fun

Buggy Wrecked

Reckless driving cause a serious collision Saturday night when a new buggy had two wheels wrecked by an auto near the residence of the late Samuel Masters on North Main Street.

A shade tree was ruined in the mix-up but none of the occupants of auto or buggy were hurt. 

Sunday School Picnic

The Fairfield M.E. Sunday School will have an all-day picnic next Saturday, Aug. 30. Come will well filled baskets and enjoy this all-day outing at the Noree Cory cottages, north of Fairfield. An excellent program has been arranged.

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Democrat, 1906

ELEVATOR BURNED

The Willey Grain Elevator at New Bath Destroyed Saturday Night.

The large grain elevator at New Bath, a station on the C.C.& I. Railroad in Bath Township, with 1,400 bushels of corn, 800 bushels of wheat and a lot of coal in adjacent shed, was destroyed by fire Saturday night.

The elevator was owned by the Willey Milling and Elevator Company and was comparatively new. It will be rebuilt at once, as New Bath is an excellent grain shipping point. The origin of the fire is unknown.

PRIZE OFFER

Extra Cash Prize Offered to Tomato Growers by the Brookville Canning Company

The prize offer of $25 to tomato growers, contracting before March 25th, delivering 1,000 bushels of tomatoes during the season of 1906 is increased to $30 for the first 1,000 bushels and one dollar per ton extra for all over 1,000 bushels. Five acres on good ground should average at least 1,500 bushels for which we would pay you $345.

BROOKVILLE CANNING CO.

G.M. SHIRK, President

ATTENTION FARMERS

We have just unloaded a car of Smith Great Western Endless April manure spreaders and kindly ask you to come and examine same before buying.

We can show you more good practical features of the Great Western spreader than all other makes combined. We are making special prices and terms for the next 30 days and it will pay you to get in on this deal as this is for 30 days only.

FRIES & GEIS

SCHOOL HOUSE

In Blooming Grove Township Destroyed by Fire Monday Night

The schoolhouse in Blooming Grove Township near the residence of Mrs. Mary Deter, was destroyed by fire Monday evening.

This was a new building, having been built only about two years ago by John N. Sherwood, then trustee, to replace an old building that was burned to the ground.

The origin of the fire is unknown. Loss $1,000. Insurance, $600.

 

Line art from 1900

 Before newspapers were capable of producing half-tone photography, they relied on line art, or line cuts. Engravings were difficult to complete and uncommon in smaller papers, except for photos in syndicated advertising.

A true art form. No publication could exist without a sketch artist. 

For the record

Columbus Republic, early 1900s

SHE WAS FEEBLE

Brookville -- Rev. E.I. LaRue went to Brookville March 28 to visit his parents, knowing his mother was very feeble but not more so than usual. Death called her at 4'clock a.m. on March 29. The funeral occurred Saturday at 10:30 o'clock.

ATTACKED BY GIANT SNAKE

Brookville -- W.J. Wood, of Aurora, who has just returned from a lumber camp at Blue Lake, Miss., brings with him the tale of a rattlesnake fight and also the tail of the rattler. The reptile crawled into Wood's tent and attacked him. It showed such fight that five shots were required to kill it. It measured 10 feet in length and bore 27 rattles and a button.

EASIER FOR TEACHERS

Brookville -- Because of difficulty in securing licensed teachers for the schools in Franklin County, the standard which has existed in the past has been waived and less difficult examinations are to be given. This was announced at the institute just closed. The small pay that is given rural teachers, 7 cents a day less than hod-carriers receive, is responsible for the small number of applicants for school positions.

CARELESS HUNTSMAN

Brookville -- Mel Holiday, 30 years old, shot himself while hunting in Possum Hollow. He picked up his shotgun by the muzzle, when it accidentally discharged, the load entering his armpit and tearing away the shoulder join. He will die.

AN ABSENT BRIDEGROOM

Brookville -- Miss Ella Roth of Covington, Ky., is alarmingly ill at the Thalheimer home, St. Peter's, and John Widmer, to whom she was to be married, is absent and cannot be located. Ten guests arrived at the little Indiana village to attend the wedding, and the bride was trying on her wedding gown when her brother, Otto Roth, told her of her lover's disappearance. She swooned and was revived with difficulty, and her condition is serious.

Mayberry, the original version

MUNCIE STAR, 1906

Officers of the Law Have a Real "Snap"

The unusual condition of affairs in Brookville is not due to any extra force of police, for this peace of the community is kept by one marshal in the daytime and a deputy at night. Despite the 3,000 population they have a very cozy time, for they made but 17 arrests in Brookville last year, an average of less than one and a half each month for the two officers.

The general mood condition of Brookville and Franklin County is evidenced by the fact that during 1906 there were but 20 prisoners in the county jail, 19 whites and 1 negro, all male. In 1905, the number of jail commitments was 27, and in 1904, only 23. The jail record for 1906 is the 7th best in the state. But six other counties of the 92 had fewer prisoners than Franklin. They were Brown, Newton, Spencer, Pulaski, Ripley and Crawford.

When it is considered that there are 17 saloons in Brookville, and more than double the number in the entire county, this jail record is perhaps the best in the state. 

Brookville officers say many of the jail prisoners were men who could not or would not pay fines levied in the justices' courts. There is a strong German element in the county which favors the saloons, and for this reason they are seldom molested.

On the other hand, the saloons obey the law and but infrequently give cause for complaint.

The Franklin County courthouse has been built for 55 years and is simply large enough for all the business of the courts. The jail is a modern structure for which there is little use. It is as often empty as it is occupied. 

The people tacitly recognize the condition of affairs, for at the last election, they re-elected H.E. Stinger, a one-armed man, as sheriff, and he is proving a very able officer.

Note: Nothing like telling the world that you can come to Brookville and get away with almost anything. They have 2 cops, and one of them has only one arm. 

Fowl deeds, indeed

Democrat, 1929

Chicken Thieves Again Visit Joe Schneider

Chicken thieves paid another visit to the roosts at the home of Joe Schneider and family, east of town last Friday night.

Joe was awakened about 12 o'clock by someone stumbling around his chicken house and upon investigation, found one culprit in the act of loading some chickens into a sack. The man made a dash around the house and Mr. Schneider emptied his shotgun at him and thought to have inflicted some wounds.

Thinking there was an accomplice in the building, Joe did not pursue the thief, and he escaped to a waiting auto, near the Holland school house.

No accomplice was found, and the thief or thieves escaped toward Mt. Carmel.

This is the second time within the past 3 months that the Schneider roost has been raided, the first attempt resulting in a spirited exchange of shots between Mr. Schneider and his son and the two thieves.

Joe hereby gives warning that the next visitors to his chicken house will find his shotgun loaded, ready for action and they will be given a warm reception, all questions and arguments taken up after the reception.

Democrat, 1932

Chicken Thieves Busy

Chicken thieves are again active in this section, according to reports from the eastern part of the county.

Tuesday night, the hen roost at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Dorrel, of near Whitcomb, was raided and about 40 chickens stolen.

The same night, the thieves raided the roosts at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Deering, of east of Brookville, but it is thought they were frightened away by the dog before they obtained many fowls.

No trace has been found of the thieves at this time. 

Democrat, 1934

Chicken Thieves are Again Busy

The hen roosts of three farmers in the eastern section of the county have been raided within the past two weeks, according to reports which reached this office today. Victims of the chicken thieves are Charles Robertson, Thurman Conn and Perry Appleton.

Eighty chickens were stolen from the Robertson farm last Wednesday night and approximately 75 from the Conn farm, Friday night.

The Appleton hen house was invaded two weeks ago on Thursday, 65 chickens being taken and marking the second time that thieves have visited the farm this year.

That section of the county seems to be the target of a ring of chicken and hog thieves as similar outrages have been perpetrated there several times within the past few months.

Note: Thieves were all known to be from Ohio.