The Republican journal., 1901-10-17
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Mrs. Affie Godding has been quite seri-
ously ill for the past week.
DR.. A. E. Kilgore has for the past week
been confined to the house by sickness.
Robert McTaggart and Melvin Roberts
are running threshing machine this fall.
Joseph Simpson is building barn on his
farm lot this side of the Eben Page place.
Miss Inez NJ. Forbes, well known as
teacher, is spending the fall with her par
ents
The Brooks base ball club has obtained
some new suits and is prepared to put on
more style.
A. E. Chase and wife spent last week in
Portland, in attendance upon the musical
festival.
They are rehearsing for the entertainment
at the Good Templar hall next Saturday
evening.
Miss Marie York has returned from Au-
gusta where she spent several days visiting
some friends.
Enoch Leathers and Emery Hussey have
been at work for NJ. j. Dow clearing large
field of rocks.
Miss Grace E. Dow is teaching at West
Brooks and is mistress at the old farm
home where she was born
Miss Lydia, daughter of Horatio Elwell,
and Edna, daughter of Samuel Elwell, are
attending the Castine Normal school,
There has been so much moving here
lately that it is hard to keep track of it.
There is not a vacant house in the village
Charles F. Bessey is still in Brooks look
ing after his business, but he will soon re-
turn to Barre, Vt, where he has a granite
quarry.
Charles II. Forbes has been getting out
some granite underpinning for the extension
to his house which he intends to build an
other year.
A. b. Sparrow is buying cider apples at
this station this week. He pays 26 cents a
hundred pounds. This affords chance to
turn refuse farm product into cash.
Miss Alice L. Dow, who has recently re-
turned from Boston, is having her millinery
opening this week. She has become a han
I dy milliner and is well patronized.
James NJ. Clary, known as the Oldest
man in town, died last week after a short
illness. The funeral was held at his late
! home in South Brooks last Sunday after
noon.
Milton Leonard, who has bought half of
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his farm, has built a long string of wire
fence to enclose new pasture, which he
has laid out.
| 1t seems nice to see the familiar form of
Rev. Humphrey Small on our streets once
more. With the exception of about ten
years his home has been here and he has
many friends here.
| Byron Larrabee of Winterport has open
ed the barber shop recently occupied by
! Charles Irving and will be here Wednes-
days and Saturdays. 1t is a great convent
ence to have the shop kept open.
1t is handy to have harness maker here
again. Now bring your old harnesses in
and have them repaired, cleaned, oiled and
put in shape for winter. 1t will pay us to
encourage the man to stay here.
Pearl Hamblen is to run the Chase hay
press this season. He has with him for a
crew Ed. Jellison, Lewis Godding and Fred
Varney. Mr.. Varney furnishes the team.
Their first job was for NJ. J. Dow at his
farm on Sprout Hill.
Fl. II. Rich has sold his nice oxen to Ban.
gor parties. He buys the incest pair he car
find each spring, does his work with them
and sells them in the fall, invariably making
money by the transaction. There is money
in the OK for the Maine farmer.
At the church last Sunday evening Rev
F. w. Barker gave an interesting address
upon the subject of music and very goot
musical program was presented. Th'
Thursday evening meetings are made yer.
interesting and there should be larger at
tendance.
Roscoe G. Edwards, who last year took VI
the manufacture of apple barrels, has sue
ceeded wonderfully we'll in the undertak
ing. He has readily sold all that he coult
make up to date. He hired coopers to d
the work principally, as his time is needles
in his MILL He intends to enlarge the bus
ness another year and wants to buy fiv
hundred cords of stave stuff this winte
who is an old hand at the business, is nO'
hic hnQd QOOnor