The Republican journal., 1899-04-06
The News OF Brooks.

y. II. Lane maze business Trip TO Bangor
this week.
Mrs. Mary webber is very much improv-
ed in health
| c. W. Waldron of Lewiston was in town
on business last Tuesday.
| Mr.. Dow will carry stock of sewing ma
chimes and bicy Giles this season.
| L. A Elliott. who has been working in
the insurance business in Penobscot county !,
is at home for few days
| The Good Templar lodge will present the
comedy Too much of good thing at their
hall next Saturday evening.
Mr.. Michael Chase who is gradually re-
covering from long and serious illness,
rode out for the first time last week
Mrs William Gordon of Fryeburg. Me-,
who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. F.
W. Pingree, returned home last week
Miss Velma Cummings, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. G. W. Jennys, the
past winter, has returned to her home in
Jonesport, Me.
| Our milliners, Misses Alice Dow and
| Vashti Fogg, accompanied by Miss Grace
Dow, went to Boston this week for new
goods and spring styles in millinery.
| The contract to move the church from the
old lot to the new has been let to Edwin
) Jenkins of Monroe for 1925 Mr.. jenkins
has done considerable work here before in a
very satisfactory manner.
r Nv IaatharS nj the RoStop Haa
in town Tuesday. He is we'll known as the
former city editor of the Bangor News. His
father, Joseph Leathers is we'll remember
ed in this town, where he lived for many
years.
A large number of men and teams have
been hauling stone for the basement of the
church and for riiling the approaches this
week. The labor was generously contribute
ed by the people of this vicinity. Their din
ners were furnished by the ladies' at Grand
Army hall.
1t is understood that the account of the
accident to Q. G. Hussey's horse last week
was not strictly correct The horses foot
caught between the iron and the planking
and the leg was broken below the ankle iont
The foot was firmly held that 1t was
pried out by A. H Rose with an iron bar
Did you notice anything peculiar about
f. Q. Day this week? Some people, who
We're no doubt enviou5 said he was walking
with cane and enquiring the prices Of the
largest sized spectaeles with very convex
lenses. There is little granddaughter
/ over AT his house, the daughter of Mrs. Bur-
ton Gross. formerly Miss Minnie Day.
Il is to be hoped that the vael!ctory OF
"Brusque" in last weeks journal viii not
be taken too seriously. Mr.. Dow has been
a good correspondent for the town, ready in
season and out of season tosay good word
| for Brooks, and though now very busy
man in his new business relations we hope
and believe that he will keep right doing
business at the old stand and keep the items
humming for a good many years yet. There
is plenty of room for us all,
Mary Gatchcll, who has for many months
been an invalid, passed away last Saturday
morning. She had been a great sufferer
/ from internal capcerous troubles. and for
! several weeks before her death had not
tasted of any food. She practically starved
| to death. She was respected member of
! the Society of Friends and was of quiet
and retiring disposition. She was sister of
/ the wife of the late John d. Jones and spent
many Years OF her life il this town. She
had been married, but left no family. The
/ funeral services We're held Monday after
noon at the house of VIM. Gould, where the
months Of her last illness were passed,
Friend Omar G. Hussey officiating. The
village choir sang some of her favorite
/ hymns and large number of friends and
ueghbors came TO pay the last tribute
Of respect to the memory Of the deceased.
/ The remains were deposited in the family
/ cemetery at Plymouth.
Several papers have reported the fact
/ that Mr.. Eugene Fletcher Of Jackson has
/ hauled to this village and sold 1913 tons of
hay. This is worthy of notice. as there
| by hangs a tale Three years ago E. A
Carpenter, the owner of the "Great Farm -
in Jackson, sold it to the son of his nearest
neighbor, a young man just past his ma ority,
for So 900, he paying nothing down. To day it
is understood that the debt is reduced to
such proportions as to cause him very little
anxiety 1t must be admitted that in that
time he has attended pretty closely to bust
ness. He didn't speculate like his neighbor
Snow, or swap costly fertilizers for notes
payable on the day of Judgment. The great
IS to prescrip tion of DR.. Byran, warranted
to make the hair of prosperity grow an the
| shining scalp of adversity hardly attracted
passing notice. The news of vast fortunes
in the Klondike, floating derelict, only wait
ing for suckers to gather them in, didn't in.
terest him little bit. Neither did the as.
surance of distinguished local tinanciers
that farming doesn't pay discourage him in
the least Mr. Fletcher's experience is inter-
estlng as assuring that farming is some
times not 50 poor business after all.