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Alabama Courier

May 6, 1886

A DOG'S TRAVELS

The remarkable journey made by a faithful canine

(Brookville, Ind., Letter)

A strange story of the remarkable sense of a dog has just been related to your correspondent by Mr. John S. Russell of Springfield Township.

Some few days since Mr. Russell took the dog, which is a fine Newfoundland, to a brother in Clinton County, this state, a distance of 145 miles, leaving him, as he thought, secure, but on Friday morning as the folks were eating breakfast what should they hear but a scratch on the door for admission from their old dog, Scott, who in his gladness to see them almost talked.

But after he was given a ham breakfast, laid under a large tree near the house all day, being almost completely worn out from travel.

The strangeness of this story is, as Mr. Russell says, "a dog will always travel between sundown and sunrise," and as he arrived on Friday morning in time for an early breakfast, he most have made the whole distance of 145 miles during the night. Scott was raised on the farm he came back to, and though only a dog, evidently believes in the old song, "There is no place like home."

Muncie Star Press

May 6, 1905

ANOTHER TOWN GETS TIGHT

Marshall at Brookville issues very strict orders

(By Star Special Service)

A reform wave has struck Franklin County. A remonstrance under the Moore law with 107 signatures out of 145 voters, was filed which will keep saloons out of Fairfield Township for the next two years.

The (Brookville) marshal, acting under the advice of the prosecuting attorney, has ordered all saloons to remove slot machines and tables and to draw the blinds on Sunday. if his orders are obeyed, it will be the first "dry" Sunday in Brookville for a number of years.

Cincinnati Post

Jan. 27, 1894

Taught School in Indiana

Pierre Lamartine, the forger, was a school teacher near here up to about 1888, when he purchased a grocery in Elmwood and removed thither.

Some time ago, the Jung Brewing Company of Cincinnati, sent a note drawn by Charles Samoniel, who is a prominent hardware merchant of this place, to the Brookville bank for collection.

Mr. Samoniel refused to pay, disclaiming signature, and also all knowledge of payee of the note. This is undoubtedly Lamartine's work.

All news is good news, usually

 American 1868

Another Change

Mr. Robt. Glenn, the successful Fairfield butcher, having bought out his partner, will conduct the business at the old stand and on the old route. Messrs. Rose and Loper are putting up a new wagon for Mr. Glenn's use. Let his former friends and patrons remember that he will still be ready to supply them with the choice of the land.

Meridan (wherever that is) 1884

Scipio Demolished by a Tornado

A dispatch from Brookville says the village of Scipio, near the Ohio line, was destroyed by Tuesday's tornado. Only two houses remain, and they were badly damaged. RV Joseph Winston was killed.

American 1867

Horse Killed

As the downward passenger train on the W.W.V. R.R. was leaving Metamora on last Saturday, two horses were observed on the track some distance in front of the locomotive. Every effort was made to frighten them off by sounding the whistle, but they remained on until, in passing a curve,, one of them was struck and killed. The other one left the track near Hendrickson's.

Kansas City Times 1906

Indiana's Big Steer

Jumbo, owned by Andrew Wessel of Brookville, which is said to be the largest steer in the world, weighs 3,500 pounds, stands 18 1/4 hands high, measures 11 feet around the girth and 17 feet 2 inches from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail.

He is a full-blooded Shorthorn, is just past the 4-year-old mark and is still growing taller and gaining in weight. The steer is so gentle that it is often ridden by Mr. Wessel's little son. Jumbo has been taken to a few fairs in Ohio and Indiana and  has attracted the attention of many people.  He was raided by P. Ewell of Franklin County, Springfield Township.

Democrat 1903

Bottle Found

During the freshet of May 25,1902, a bottle was thrown in the East fork of the Whitewater river about a mile south of Fairfield by Misses Minnie and Pearl Bourne and Misses Lillie and Eleanor Phenis.

It was found Jan. 20, 1903 about 68 miles below Louisville, Ky., about forty feet up the bank of the Ohio River, by S.R. Lyon.

Democrat 1902

A Card

I hereby desire as publicly as may be, to state that those men, who told that I used either whisky or furnished money to influence any vote, are unprincipled, dirty liars and that I am fully responsible financially and personally for this statement.

James R. Johnson

Fairfield, Ind.