The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-08-03
The News OF Brooks.

Miss Lizzie Edwards has been spending a
short vacation at E. G. Boody's.
Your correspondents were exempliflyin
the hay makers degree last week
Miss Flora E. Weber of Belfast is work
ing as compositor in the Yankee Blade Of
fee.
Mrs. c. S. Bracket and daughter Gail
of Newport, Me-, are at Fl. b. Pilleys for q
few days.
William c. Rowe is enjoying visit from
his little gran ddaughter, Blanche Hall Of
Pishon's Ferry.
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. I. Huxford spent last
week at Northport and intend TO go again
later in the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Chase and daughter
Marie are at Northport for few weeks,
occupying the Gorham cottage on Park Row.
Mrs. Rebecca Miles returned to her home
in Fitchburg Mass. Tuesday after two
weeks visit to relatives in Brooks.
Chester Forbes is home for a vacation
after an absence of two years. He has
been in Boston, where he has a good posi-
ton.
Mrs. Miles Nesmith and Mrs. John Hunt
formerly Clara and Augusta Forbes are
visiting friends in town after an absence of
several years
MIR. Fred Nesmith of Portland is visiting
| at L. l. Huxford's. He is son of Carver
Nesmith, formerly well known citizen of
the town, but now remembered only by a
few of the older residents.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Gowen and daughter,
Gertrude of Taunton, Mass, are visiting
Mrs. Gs father, c. E. Lane. The family
took blackboard ride to Northport, Monday,
and another to Monroe and Frankfort Tues
day
Farmers generally done haying or
II early so. The hay is of good quality, but
little, if any, above one-half the cut of last
year III quantity. The weather as been good
and the crop has been gathered in a shorter
time than usual. Nj. j. Dow cut over one
hundred acres in three weeks with four men
and four horses. but the 100 tons of hay of
last year are little more than fifty this.
Harriet Buzzell died at the insane asylum
in Augusta July 22d, aged about ifty-tive
years. Deceased was a daughter of An
drew and Clarissa Buzzell and is survived
by two sisters Mrs. T. D. Jellison and Mrs.
Margaret Evans, both of Brooks. The fu-
neral service Sunday were conducted by
Friend o. G Huzzey. A profuson of flow
ers were contributed by neighbors and
friends.
I. S. Staples and 7. l. Huxford have sold
the horse Paris Boy to John Currier of the
firm of Currier. Cameron & Co. of Ames
bury, Mass. The price, though private, is a
big one. Paris Boy was bred in Paris, Ken
lucky, and is six years old. His breeding
was of the highest that the Blue Grass region
affords. Sired by Hanedallah 81 and by
Mambrino 20. by George Wilkes, dam by
Happy Medium. He himself showed trial
mile in . p at years old. Mr. Staples, who
knows horses and deals in good ones, says
that desirable horses never sold better
Edward Shibles of Knox, who has built a
new and fine residence on the site of the one
burned decided to give an old fashioned
house warming week ago Saturday night
His Brooks friends entered into the spirit of
the occasion with enthusiasts m. Robert Nc
Taggart with three horses and hay -rack
took up the Brooks band VIII lie large num-
Der went by other conveyances. Edward
knows how to entertain a company and the
festivities continued until near twelve
o'clock, when all departed we'll plea sed.
Some of the older boys from Brooks assured
Bro. Shihles that he need not be afraid to
call on them at any time when he wished to
get up another entertainment of that kind