DEAR SUN SPOTS: Here’s an old murder mystery I’m trying to track down for a genealogy friend. Please let me know if you’ve ever heard of it.

Henry G. Brown was born in Rumford but lived in Hartford for many years. His son, Charles, was supposedly murdered sometime after 1900. The story goes that he disappeared while working at a lumber mill, and his body was found frozen under the floor boards months later.

A co-worker named Roscoe “Shorty” Childs was acting in a very suspicious manner when the body was found.

I don’t know what town this occurred in, though Roscoe was working at IP in Livermore in 1918.

Thank you for any help anyone can give me. — Marjorie Osterhout, [email protected]

ANSWER: Sun Spots figures that you and the other genealogist already searched online, but she checked again anyway. Unfortunately, the names are too common and there is too little information to limit the search. Hopefully some readers might recall hearing this story from grandparents or other elders.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: First, I enjoy reading your helpful column every day.

Second, I lost our motorcycle journal somewhere, and I am very upset with myself because I had written about our 25-plus bike trips over the years.

The front of the wire-bound hardcover book had a young boy and girl on it.

We would be thrilled to get it back. A good Samaritan is worth a million words. Please call 890-3622. Thank you. — No Name, West Paris

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I want to thank the readers for their generosity to Turner Elementary School for sending their Box Tops For Education.

If you have any Box Tops or Campbell soup labels that you would like to donate to our school, please mail them to me at 5 Brookfield Estates, Turner, ME 04282. Thank you! — Laurie Labbe, [email protected]

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DEAR SUN SPOTS: Thanks for the great column. The Ladies Guild of Our Lady of Ransom parish, 117 Elm St. in Mechanic Falls, will sponsor an indoor yard sale on Saturday, June 30, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the parish hall.

Tables are $15 for one or two for $25. Luncheon will be served. To rent a table, please call Josie Hebert at 345-3274 after 3 p.m. — [email protected]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: The Sumner Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary is getting ready for its annual lawn and plant sale in June. We are working to get some new equipment for our Fire Department.

If anyone has anything from household items to plants that they would like to donate to help us out, they can call me at 388-2981 or email at [email protected]. Thank you. — Wilda Dunham, Sumner

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