The Republican journal., 1900-02-08
The News OF Brooks.

Don't forget the entertainment for the
church tonight.
E. A. Carpenter is on three weeks tril
in Aroostook county.
o. W. Lane and wife visited relatives in
Burnham last Saturday.
Charles F. Berry, assignee. is paying the
claims against the Elliott estate.
Harold Merithew is rapidly recovering
from his late severe attack of typhoid fever.
| Miss Hattie Walker of Knox has been
visiting her friend Mrs Prince Bessey of this
village.
| MT. Frank B. Simpson has blacksmith
shop at his fathers farm and is doing some
business there.
Harry Slap les and Warren Jones went to
Penobscot this week after some horses they
had bought there.
spending few weeks with his father, the
Rev. David BracHett
Roberts & Son are busily engaged at their
mill in filling contracts for chairs and novel
ties in wooden ware.
Mr.. Bragg, the teacher at South Brooks,
has conducted some very interesting lyce-
ums at his school house.
l. II. b. Pilley looked after the drug
store last week while A. R. Piley was con
fined to the house by sickness.
E. S. Page moved his stock of groceries
to Monroe Centre last week, occupying a
store own ed by W. G. Peavey.
M. j. Dow has been confined to the house
for several days by severe cold and sore
throat, but is now out again.
Miss Grace Dow ran the dry goods bust
ness last week while her father played the
part of an invalid, much to his disgust.
The old-fashioned singing school at the
G. 7. Lodge last Saturday evening was
success, and everybody laughed until they
could laugh no more.
We regret to learn that Mark Shibles,
long prominent citizen Of Knox and one
of the oldest residents of the town, s very
i'll with pneumonia.
George B. Roberts is expected home on a
short vacation this week. He has been en-
r.oyed the past year as conductor on the
Boston elevated railroad.
The friends of Augustus P. Small, former
ly OF this town but now resident of Pal
myra, Maine, have received cards announc.
ing his marriage to Miss Ida Weeks.
Mr. Earle Bessey has closed his term of
school in the Knowles Dist. in Jackson. He
is now a school master and can put on airs
and go in for wages next term.
F. J. and F. P. Webb were in town re-
Gently investigating the monument bust
ness. They have two nice contracts here in
Guiding fine monument to the memory of
the late John M. Dow.
Mrs. W. A. Fenlason is still in poor
health, not having fully recovered from an
attack of diphtheria over year ago. Miss
Lillian Simpson is spending the winter
with her and doing her homework.
Charles Il. Irving, our barber, has decided
to keep his shop closed Sundays hereafter.
He likes to properly observe the day, and
then it gives him few hours each Sunday
morning with molly and the Baby
Our friend VIM. G. Rowe is fast forging to
the front as soloist. The way he lit out
with a smokey moke last Saturday night is
a warning to the other fellows that he is in
the "midde OBJ de road.'' Bro. McTaggart,
whose speciality is the sweet old songs of
bonny Scotland, has got to get up and dust
himself now.
The telephone has been doing largely in
creased business lately. The telegraph line
is now transmitting only messages connect
ed With railroad business. 1t is not general
ly known that the telephone rates have
been much reduced, in fact about one half
which cannot fail to res ult in gradually in
creased patronage.
A. M. Jones of Bates, 1900, our high school
teacher, has been kept very busy this winter.
Being very clever fellow, and willing to be
made useful he has been worked into every
thing of public character in the village,
and there is something every week here.
We get up our own entertainments in this
place, and take pride in it.
Mrs. Frank York of the hotel has been
quite i'll for some time and your correspond
ent congratulated himself that he had learn
ed the cause when he Numbered into the
parlor the other evening and found the
nurse quietly rocking something An ex-
animation, however, proved it only an im-
tation, obtained to please Miss Marie.
1t looks lonesome to glance across the
corner now days and see the deserted T. A.
Elliott mansion. 1t seems too bad to have
the incest house in the village shut up and
doing nobody any good. But the family are
in Lincoln, where Mr.. Elliott has headquar-
tiers for business this winter, and without
doubt they are warm, comfortable and happy.
1t is expected that the entertainment to be
presented at the G. A. R. Hall tonight
| Thursday will be one of the very finest
| ever given in this town. The farce, en- titled
"The Old Maids Wooing," abounds in odd
| tiles and mirth- provoking situations and the
| parts are all taken by we'll known citizens.
| The only advice is to come early while you
can get seat in the hall Some fine music
| will be in evidence, and various comicalities
| will be presented Refreshments will be
served in the banquet room by the ladies
who are working hard to help on the cause
| of ha chr ~ hri,