The Republican journal., 1899-09-14
The News OF Brooks.

Mrs. Margaret Parsons of Troy is visiting
the family of G. II. Forbes.
Plastering the new church has been begun.
Stanley Perkins has the job.
Earl Bessey has gone to Pittsfeld to at
tend the fall term of the M. G. 1.
Isaac G. Reynolds was at Lewiston last
week with his usual exhibit of sheep.
Mrs. C. S. Bracket of Newport, Me, visit
ed her father, Fl. III. Pulley, last week.
Ina Forbes has returned from visit to
friends in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Almon S. Forbes past eighty years of
age, is working every pleasant day on his
farm.
Mrs. PAMELA Penney has gone to Con-
necticut to visit her daughter, Mrs. Blais-
dell.
Maurice Luce of Haverhill, Mass, visited
his cousin, Alice L Dow of this place, last
week.
Mrs. Mary A. Leathers of Troy is visiting
the family of her brother the late R. W..
Forbes
Daniel W. Dickey has returned from Dex-
ter, where he visited his daughter, Mrs. Geo
Larrabee.
Alice L. Dow, the milliner, has in her first
installment of autumn hats and is selling
them, too
C.E. Lane is blowing the ten-acre field
back of the railroad on the homestead of
the late John Lane.
T. A. Elliott is at home for short visit to
his family. He is away most of the time on
| insurance business.
W. H. H. Roberts & Son are putting in
steam engine and otherwise improving the
capacity OF their mill
Michael Chase is so far improved to
ride out every pleasant day and attend to
business to some extent.
NJ. j. Dow, who is agent for the White
sewing machine, has several good samples
of the article at his store.
Bert Payson is at home for short vaca-
ton He has position as conductor on the
electric railroad in Providence, r. l.
Everett Felker and Frank Twombly have
arrived home from trip to Merrimac, Mass,
on their wheels, and report fine time
Mrs Lindley Bailey and daughter are here
from Massachusetts to visit Isaac and
| Charles at the old Reynolds homestead.
Almon S. Forbes wishes to sell his stock.
farming tools and personal property, as he is
to remove to the west for an indefinite time
| Olive Payson, who has position in
ewelry shop in Rhode Island, is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. s A. Payson, at South
Brooks
Mrs Fannie Twombly has arrived home
for a short stay from the Searsport House
where she has been spending few weeks
with the little new boarder.
We are glad to see the familiar face of
Sam Foss, who for many years lived on Pond
Hill in this town He is back from Massa-
chusetts for a visit to his old home.
| NJ. j. Dow has crew of men clearing up
some rough land on his farm in West Brooks
He has pair of heavy horses, with harness,
wagon and seds, all complete, that he will
sell cheap.
f V. Ferris and w fe OF Marinette, Wis
consin, have been visiting Will Swift and
family. Mr. Ferris was born in this village
some fifty years ago and lived here until he
was eight years old.
| Harry Hutchinson is spending his vaca-
| ton with his mother and sister. He is
conductor on the Boston elevated railroad
and has been in rather poor health, but is
now very much improved
Andrew Croswell and wife of Pennington,
who have been visiting the family of DR.. A.
W. Rich, have returned home. Leonard
and Abbie Rich of Charlestown, Mass, have
also been visiting DR.. Rich.
Bert Jones who is a student at Bates, was
in town the other day. He attending the
teachers meetings during his vacation as a
representative of publishing company thus
combining business, instruction and pleas
ure.
We had the pleasure of visiting the Cor
don factory the other day for the purpose of
inspecting Johns new industry, which is the
manufacture of ladies' dress skirts. The in
| dications that he has struck it this time.
He gets up nice article, honestly made and
stylish looking, and it is meeting with
good demand.
Rev. Frank S. Forbes of Santa Barbara,
| California, is in Brooks, the guest of his
brother Charles H Forbes He will 90 to
Boston next week and then will return to
| California. He will be accompanied by his
father, Almon S. Forbes of this town, who
will probably spend the winter in California
with his son.
Charles M. Huxford is visiting his cousin,
I. I. Huxford and renewing his acquain-
lance with many friends in town. He is
Brooks boy who left home at fourteen years
of age to make his own way in the world
and has succeeded so well that he is to-day
at the head of the largest commission house
in Boston dealing in canned goods and dried
fruits as speciality, and doing business of
over one million dollars year. The firm
has business connections with nearly all
parts of America and the principal coun-
tries of Europe, handling the output of
many of the largest firms engaged in the
| canning business, not only OF the varied
products of the East but of the fruits Of
California and the salmon of the Columbia
river and Alaska. Mr.. Huxford was en-