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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.