The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-11-26

BROOKS The officers of the Good Tenn
plar Lodge, as installed by Deputy McTag-
CART, are as follows: Charles E. Lane, c. T !:
Mrs. Mosman, V. T.; Mrs Hutchinson, S.
j t.; A. c. Mosman, Treas. VIM. c. Rowe,
F. s; Nina TasSer, L. S.. Miss Lewis, A. r.
S.; Mrs. Clifford, Chap; G. L. Moulton, NJ. :;
Flora E. Huff, A, M. Hannah Smith, G. ;
Albert Rowe, S. They have chosen sides
| for this quarters entertainment, with Mrs.
Etfie Godding and Miss Nina Tasker as cap
tains. j.. Geo. Il. Hall, who has been some
| two years widower, has taken to himself
new wife in the person of Miss Cora Pettin-
gill of this town.. Henry Reynolds, Jr.,
has married Miss Bertha, daughter of A. B.
Huff. Miss Mary Anderson of Boston is
| visiting her father, Augustus Curtis. Geo.
and Wilfred Hall, L. G. Body and A. b.
| HUFF have built several rods of gravel side
walk in front of their several lots, much to
| the advantage of those who travel that
street. Geo. Edwin Lang has closed his
house and boards with Joseph Stimpson....
Eben and Geo Page took a job to clear
rough pasture belonging to James B. Nc
Taggart from rocks, and they have laid
string of wall in doing it. McTaggart, while
he has spent most of his life at work on the
| railroad, is one of the neatest farmers in
| Brooks His father was a gardener in old
| Scotland and Nc. can give you some valu-
able Information any day. ohm NJ Dow
has sold most of his stock. He still wishes
| to sell a nice pair of three-year-old steers, a
COW and two or three horses. r. G. Ed
wards is delivering the winters supply of
| coal to his customers :. Miss Mabel Rose
closes her school in Morrill, this week..
| Miss Leila Simpson is teaching school at
Monroe Centre. John c. Lane is teaching
the West Brooks school. Mr.. SWEET of
Hermon is at work in the harness shop of
Fred W. Brown. Brooks is quite we'll
supplied with dressmakers this season. Mrs.
A B. Huff, who has for the past two
three years done the most work of any one
in the village, still finds plenty to do.
Mrs. Stantial who came here last spring,
has had busy season. Mrs. Anna Healey,
who has rooms in the FL. H. Pilley house,
can do as nice a job any of them. Mrs.
Jennys, who learned the trade as a girl, al
lows that she is not going to sit around and
do nothing while the doctor is away on bus
mess, and she has gone to work. Mrs. Brown
does something at it when She can get time
In fact, you can get dress cut and mad e
here now without any difficulty M rs.
Margaret Huxford is still confined to her
bed. Her weakness, incident to old age, is
the principal trouble....A storm porch has
been added to the Ira W. Bowden house.
The 7. l. HuXford store has been shngled
and otherwise repaired and Shadrack Hall
and sons are at work on the Anterior house
Mrs l.. c. Jones, who has done dress
making here for two or three years, is away
with her husband for the winter. Will
Sinclair, who has spent a few weeks up in
the Penobscot woods, has returned home.
His wife has been boarding with Sophia
Rowe. Mrs. Houghton, who has been sick
with slow fever at the home of her son-in-
law, Tilton A. Elliott, has improved 50 as to
be able to sit up.