Brookfield Courier

"About 8 o'clock last evening the house of Amasa Hills was entered by a tramp, who demanded money of Mrs. Hills or her life. Mr. Hills was visiting a neighbor at the time. After abstracting about $5 from a drawer he decamped leaving Mrs. Hills cried securely to the chamber door. Her screams attracted a person near who aroused the neighbors, and Mrs. Hills was released. Search is being made for the tramp."

"Mr. Amasa Hills, an old sheep raiser, in his journeyings through Otsego County, came across an old acquaintance of his who has sheared sheep for fifty-two years in succession. Men are scattering who can boast of such a record as this."

"Mrs. Amasa Hill has taken rooms in C. C. Mason's house."

"North Brookfield.
Dec. 14. - Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bennett have gone to Seattle, Wash., to spend the winter with their son, Berton Bennett."

"Wm. Henry Matteson and sister, Mrs. Amasa Hills, visited friends in Brookfield Saturday."

"The board of supervisors of Jefferson county has decided to purchase the old Jacob Stear farm, upon which there is a large mansion beautifully situated among the hills, and transform the place not only into a truant school, but a home and industrial farm for the education of youngsters. The truants are now sent to Rochester at a expense of $5 a week."

"Alphonso Palmer has purchased the place known as the Amasa Hills farm of about 76 acres; Consideration $1,600."

"In Surrogate's Court last week will of Samuel R. Bennett, late of North Brookfield, proven and letters thereon granted to Mary J. Bennett, widow. Estate estimated at $3,500."

"The farm best known as the Amasa Hill farm was sold Saturday, April 24, at 10 o'clock at McCabe's hotel on a mortgage sale by C.M. Wickwire, attorney for Mrs. Mary J. Bennett. Clarence L. Clarke was the buyer at $1,001. Comprising 72 acres land and 6 acres swamp land."

"Surrogate's Notes... Decree of judicial settlement of the accounts of Mary J. Bennett, executrix of the estate of Samuel R. Bennett late of the town of Brookfield. Estate amounted to $670. B.E. Bennett, attorney"

"When remitting for the Courier this week Hon. Burton E. Bennett of Seattle, Washington, sends a word of appreciation and also a news item concerning the family of his brother, Byron Bennett: "I have received the Courier ever since its first issue and it seems to me that I could not do without it. When I returned to Seattle after a visit to North Brookfield this past summer my mother returned with me. We came by way of San Francisco, visited the exposition and my sister-in-law and niece, Mrs. Laura Bennett; and Miss Byrona Bennett, in San Jose. They are the widow and daughter, respectively, of my brother, Byron Bennett, who died here 24 years ago. Laura Bennett has been a teacher in the San Jose public schools for years. I am sorry to say that Byrona, in the flush of youthful beauty and grace, died at San Jose, November eight. She was 24 years of age, a graduate of the state normal school and a junior in Stanford University."

"Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Fisk of Lebanon, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Alice Butterbaugh, of Denver, Colo., were guests, Friday, of their brother and wife Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Babcock. Mrs. Butterbaugh will remain at the Babcock home for a longer visit with her relatives and friends."