The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-12-08
SOUTH NEWBURY

SOUTH NEWBURY
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Johnson and Mas
ter Paul Johnson of Springfield Mass, AM
Elizabeth houston of Bath N. H., spen
THANKSGIVING with their uncle, james
Johnson's family.
Frank.N. Brock and family motored Il
Franconia Thursday and took dinner al
DR.. Leonard Johnson's.
Mr. and Mrs. Moses Rowland went to
Guy Howland's for THANKSGIVING dinner
Mrs. w. w. Brock returned to St. Johns.
bury Monday to be under the care of DR.
Fairbanks.
Mrs. Beth Gorham Currier, husband
and son were with her parents for Thanks
giving.
Mr.. / Charles Kimball and daughter
Blanche, Guy Workman and family, with
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, were Thanks
giving guests at P D. w. Hildreth's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thaddeus Wheaton and
daughter, Mrs. Chas. Greenleaf, and Miss
Hazel Currier were at Homer Gorham's
Thanksgiving Day.
Mrs. Leslie Hildreth and baby, Robert
returned from East Ryegate last week
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Martin enter
tanned Ernest Brooks family, Lloyd Lyle
and Clifton Bailey for THANKSGIVING.
The following mention of the life of
B. F. Brock, brother of Mrs. F. C. Cline
was taken from "The Kelsonian," pub
lished in Kelso, Washington.
In the death of B. F. Brock at his home
at Stella Friday night, November 10th,
Cowlitz county lost one of its most pic
turesque figures, and the logging interests
of the Columbia river district one of the
pioneers in the development of that in
dustry.
Born at South Newbury, Vermont,
July %, 1S4S, Mr.. Brock lived with his
parents until his twentieth year, when he
removed to Manchester, New Hampshire,
and entered the employ of the Manchester
locomotive Works, where he remained for
FIVE years, learning the business. From
Manchester he went to Aurora, Illinois,
and in 1875 came West, locating on Coal
Creek in Western Cowlitz county, where
he became associated with Jacob West,
another of the pioneers of the logging
industry. They were associated for seven
years.
In 1882 Mr.. Brock purchased tract
IF timber near the mouth of Coal Creek !
md on Mosquito Creek, and began con-
truction of logging railway, which was
me of the first in the country, up Mosquito |
Jreek for a distance of about two miles. |
lie built his camp, machine shop and store
It the present Eufaula crossing In 1895 |
he postofIice at Eulaufa was established |
It that point. Mr. Brock continued his
ogging operations here for more than
wenty years extending the railway back
nto the forests a distance of some five
II six miles further. In 1908 he sold his
Ogging interests, including timber and
ailway, to the Eastern & Western Lumber
20, which now operates the properties
S the Eufaula Company. Since dispos-
ng of his logging interests, Mr. Brock has
'een engaged in farming at Stella.
Mr.. Brock and Selena McAdams were
nited in marriage in 1885, and his widow
nd nine children survive.
Mr.. Brock was a life long member of the
church, and in the early
ineties established Presbyterian church
or EufauIa and Stella, and for twelve
ears personally employed minister and
upplied a manse so as to give those COM
lunities a religious organization. He was
n elder of the Presbyterian church at the
ime of his death.
Funeral services were conducted from
he family residence near Stella Sunday
fternoon by r. A. Walmsley The re-
Mains were taken to Portland for crema-
ion.