The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-05-11
The News OF Brooks.


Grace E. Dow, who teaches at East Brooks,
drives her mare Daisy.
| Small and Perkins are improving the
looks of the village by liberal use of paint
| L. c. Jones, who has been in Washington
county for several weeks, returned Mon
day
| E. G. Roberts, agent for the Northwestern
Life Insurance Co, is in Bangor for few
| weeks.
Miss Vesta Rose who is teaching at West
Brooks, makes the two mile trip on her
wheel.
James Bushtield and wife of Haverhll,
Mass, are at the r. w. Forbes homestead for
brief outing
j. l. Watts of Freedom drives cart from
Riverside bakery this season, which is quite
| convience to the people here.
Thaddeus | Huxford has bought the grey
horse owned by Roscoe A. Jones. There
are few better ones in this own.
Charles Fl Irving is about to begin honse-
keeping i'll the house owned by q. F. Bessey
and lately occupied by Fred Walker.
| F. K. Roberts attended the Mas onic Grand
| Lodge in Portland and afterward visited
Boston and other Massachusetts cities.
| Meetings are TO he held at the Friends
chapel hereafter. 0. G. Hussev preaching in
the forenoon ana Rev. F. S. Doliff in the
! afternoon
Geo. l. Hall. who has lived at the village
during the winter, has moved back to his
farm, which was formerly the Bracket
place in Jackson.
| 0. G. Hussey, whose horse was injured in
| crossing the railroad here so that he had to
be killed, has received pay for him in full
from the company.
Mr.. BOWS millinery department has a
large outside trade. Miss Alice Dow the
milliner, sent four orders to Thorndike
Station one day last week
NJ. j. Dow has bought the well known
Eben Page team horses and will put them
at work on his farm. They weigh 1900 lbs
each and are good rugged pair OF workers
There is talk of building bandstand in the
pines belonging to Isaac feathers on tine
banks of the stream. The spot is beaut-
full one and the plan will doubtless be car
ried out.
Mr. Geo E. Card of this place was rather
disguised last week having his name an.
pear in the Brooks notes az John He spent
or Years fighting the Johnnies down
South and he objects to the cognomeu.
Mrs. W A. Fenlason is sick with diphthe-
ria OF mild type. All precautions are taken
to prevent the disease from spreading and
the house is strictly quarrantined. There
have been no other cases here and the ORR
gin of the disease is mystery.
Roscoe E. Webber lost eight newly shear
ed sheep one night last week Nothing of the
stock kind is more tender than a sheep
when first sheared. We remember losing
twenty good sheep out of lot of one hun
dred few years since and it taught us
lesson.
The cream season has opened and the
merits Of the different creameries are being
discussed. The dairy interest IN this sec
ton has become very important one with
in few years, and the way the farmers were
roasted by the Belfast Creamery last wear
naturally makes them somew hat wary about
trusting new men. The chances are that
the money will have to be promptly forth
coming every month or the cream supply
will stop.
W. Fl. Swift, who made an unsuccessful
attempt TO move his house early in the sea-
son, the house sticking fast in the mud at
the foot of the first hill while the team
foundered helplessly in the mire tried
again under better auspices last Saturday.
With a very large team of oxen and horses
it was at last landed safely on the spot
His house, which was former y about half a
mile hack, is now in good location on the
main road
Monday 3. crew of about fifteen men began
setting the poles for the telephone wire from
Brooks to Monroe. The distance is seven
miles ana there are forty to the mile These
poles came from Aroostook county, are
twenty eight feet long. and cost from one
in the ground. Frank Gibbs ami Frank
Quimby have taken the job to distribute
the poles at ten cents each. The telephone
office here will be in T. l. Huxford's store.
The church tower, which has been a
prominent landmark of the village for more
than sixty years, was demolished by E. o.
Stantial and Frank Thompson last week
The timbers were found to be but slightly
decayed. Huff and Jewell are making ex
cellent progress SO on the new foundation and
it will soon be ready to receive the building
When well graded and finished it will be a
pretty place. 1t takes large quantity of
rock to make the fill however, and would
have made bankrupt any private individual
of ordinary means, but the public has gener-
ously taken hold of the matter and large
number of men and teams have done excel
lent labor in the good cause People gener-
ally have been willing to put in day or two
with their teams and they have worked hard
when once they were on the spot.