The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-11-01
THE Jews OF BROOKS.

Mrs. Mary E. Weber is still on the in
valid list.
W. O. Estes has gone to Dexter with the
steel range crew.
Miss Alice L. Dow is now very busy at
her millinery rooms.
Apple buyers are in town. The price Of
fered is 81 per barrel.
Charles Bessey is in town looking over
his property interests.
The Libbeus Jones house has been shin
gled and generally repaired.
Miss Chaplin of Belfast is visiting the
family of w. A. Henderson.
F. c. IIolbrook is acting as assistant
postmaster for G. A. Lane.
Mrs. Margaret Evans has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. I. A. .Jellison.
Bert Payson and Inez NJ. Forbes closed
their schools in Knox last week.
c. f. Lane and r. G. Edwards are both
saving out barrel slaves at their mills.
Mrs Ida L. Jones, who has position in
the city hospital at Augusta, called here
last week.
1t is said that Walter Penney, who went
to the gold fields of Alaska last year, has re-
turned home.
Mrs. Geo. A. Morrill, has returned from
visit to her parents, Henry Beale and wife
of Swanville.
Mrs. Benjamin Hussey, nee Celia NJ Lane,
of Windsor. with her little son Harlon, has
visited friends here.
James F. Jewell, carpenter, is pushing
business at the Berry Sargent house, and it
will soon be ready for the plasterers.
| Lottie Edwards is with her sister, Mrs.
| Kate Grover, for short time. She usually
makes her home in Massachusetts.
| Miss Jessie Peabody has returned from
! Mt. Vernon, where she has closed her third
term of school in the same place.
Miss Marion York was confined to her
bed for several days, the result of an injury
received when thrown from carriage.
DR.. Whitney of Thorndike spent several
days here with his daughter, Mrs. Bin
! Stantial, during the absence of MI. Stantal
| in Boston.
| Mrs Sarah J. Cole of Thorndike has been
housekeeper in the family of A. B. Stantial
during the absence of Mrs. Stantial in
Bangor.
Mrs James Bushfield of Haverhill, Mass,
is visiting at the R. w. Forbes homestead
while her husband takes short vacation in
the Maine woods
Miss EVE Roberts has returned from
Lewiston, where she visited her aunt, Mrs.
Abbie Ireland, who as a girl lived for some
years in this village.
Mrs. Miranda n. Roberts has moved into
the F. O. Day tenement. For three or four
years past she has occupied the rent of NJ.
j. Dow on the corner.
VIM. O. Jones and wife returned Satur-
day from carriage trip to Bangor, where
they went to see Mr.. Jones brother, Frank
L., and other friends
M. j. Dow, who is agent for the Butterick
Publishing Co., handles quite a quantity Of
tEeir publications and disposes of large
number of their patterns.
Ira J. Meyers, who for several years past
has worked for NJ. j. Dow, is in West Med
ford, Mass, where he has position as
driver on an express team.
A. NJ. Jones, teacher of the high school in
South Brooks, has been i'll, threatened with
appendicitis, and his place in the school has
been taken by Harry Littlefeld
Mrs. Kate Irving, who has for many
months been nearly helpless, both mentally
and physically, as the result of paralytic
shock, remains in about the same condition.
Walter Bradford and Miss Lizzie Burn
ham of Beverly, Mass, are visiting the fam
| lily Of Chas. E. Bowen. Mr.. Bradford will
| be remembered as a former resident of
Knox.
The ladies are to present an entertain
ment at the G. A. R. hall next Wednesday
evening for the benefit of the church. Two
farces are ON the program, and nice time
is expected.
c. E. Lane, the retiring Chief Templar of
Brooks Good Templar lodge, gave supper
in the banquet room last Saturday evening,
to which over one hundred members did
ample justice.
Edwin Knowlton has bought of M. j.
Dow the sorrell horse Soloman and now has
| good stout pair of work horses. His first
job is to break up ten acres of rough
ground for Mr.. Dow
Several of our young people attended the
reception given in Swanville last week by
Ed Cunningham and wife. Mrs. Cunning
ham was formerly known in Brooks and
Belfast as Mae McTaggart.
Mrs. Flora E. Logan, who has been at
Hotel York for some months, has gone to