The Republican journal., 1892-01-14
a Visit to Brooks Village.

n ' ISL 10 I0GOOhS
Twelve miles north west of Belfast, on
the Belfast branch of the Maine Central
/ Railroad. is situated the thriving little vii
| lage of Brooks. 1t was settled in 1899 by
Joseph Roberts from Bucktied, Incorporate
ed Dec 10th, 1876. and was named in hon
! OF Of Gov. Brooks OF Massachusetts,. Hav-
! ing occasion to visit Brooks recently was
/ surprised at the many changes that have
taken place in this pleasant little Village
j within the past ten years. No other vii
/ lage in the county has had rapid a
growth in the past few years as the town
OF Brooks Walking through its pleasant
streets brought WILDLY to my recollec-
ton the pleasant days that | had spent in
| this town when attending school. 1t seem
ed as if was a stranger ina strange land. |
felt about as the Israelites did after their
! protlacted wandelin9s in the deserts, and
before they settled in the land of Canaan.
| But in a short time things began to as
sumo different shapes and recognized the
place. Still it put me in mind of the
| Dutchman who went to see his father and
/ when he arrived at the place, installing
some one asleep on the steps for his father
he shook him and says Yappo! Yappo. and
mine got, it was not Yappo at all.
| shook myself to see if l was Yappo, for
did not think | was the same person that
| was when | went to school here, and
snapped ROSTERS. But when | saw the
smiling face of L. $. Staples, the jumper
! and sleigh king, began to come to myself
| | had a pleasant talk with friend Staples
and his son. They were all business, hav-
ing some 12O sleighs and jumpers on hand.
Calling on \. Z. Chase | found him and
his father doing rushing business. G. E.
Lane was rushing round buying hay You
cannot lose Charles. for he is a hustler.
found Gordon in his office at the factory,
and it seemed like old times. Many the
time have sat in his store when he was
in trade, 16 or II years ago, and talked
horse with the boys. Huxford, who We
/
same pleasant fellow as of old.
do not think there is town of it's size
in the State OF Maine to-day that is doing
the business that Brooks is. The pay roll
of the town, in all its business, is about
50, 900 a month. Over 100 hands are en-
ployed i'll the pants and vest business in
the shops. Brooks is great hay, potato
and grain centre for the surrounding
towns. The increase of business has caus-
ed the value OF real estate to increase five
times within the last 10 years. Two new
year. Rents are scarce. Some one with a
small amount of capital could make a good
thing by building some cottage houses to
rent.
May the village of Brooks prosper in the
future as she has in the past, and wish all
a happy New Year II. b. II.
Another Tribute to slack Morrill, %
To THE EDITOR OF TIE JOURNAL:
w dS IlLCu IJltdSttl 10 See III lIC JOuIuul Oh
Dec. oath the tribute to the horse Jack
Morrill,, written by your correspondent
Horseman. | never saw the horse, but |
always admired his breeding, and | adj
mired him still more after the showing
that he made in his first and only race at
Readteld. 1t was the horses bred after
the pattern of Jack Morrill, that made
Maine and Vermont famous forty years
ago. -Four years ago | bought a tilly by
Jack Morrill,, and have got from her two
colts, the first a horse colt, gelded. and
the last a tlly, both by Hambletonian
Chief. 1t was this mare, Maud MorrilD,
that took the first premium at the Waldo
County Fair last fall for best brood mare
with foal at foot. This foal ought to be
quite good one for most any purpose
especially for breeding purposes. Here is
the way she is bred:
Marion Z. by Hambletonian Chief, sire
of Geo. o., PA IA, Elmbrook, = 26 IL.
LIST dam by Jack Morrill,, I'd dam by Ham
bletonian Chief, Sd dam by Gen. Knox,
4th dam by Young Abdallah. A tahnlat-
ed pedigree of this colt shows two crosses
to HambetOnan 10, two to Seelv's Amer
lean Star IA, one each to Gen. Knox and
Winthrop Morrill, the two best horses
that ever stood in Maine: both Morgans.
the latter the most intensely inbred Nor
gan of his time; the bottom crosses are
Morgan, Messenger, Black Hawk, Dia-
mond and Abdallah. This colt is standard
bred, and is, think fully as good as her
breeding gives her license to be- | have
nine head of standard bred horses and
colts and at some other time | would be
glad to tell the readers of the journal
how some of them are bred.
| LORETTO HAYFORD,
| The Journal will always be pleased to
hear from Mr.. Hayford, and from other
local horsemen.
There are no good coughs. Every cough
is bad cough But some are worse than
others. All the same they let up their hold