The Republican journal., 1902-12-18
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

MIS-. ii. ii. hlcD mas returned from a buSl-
ness trip to Boston.
Mrs. A. f. Kilgore has returned from a
visit to friends in Belfast.
Our young people are rehearsing for the
Christmas entertainment
Hale Hall, who has been very sick with
pneumonia, is convalescent.
Miss Alice L. Dow, the milliner. is visit
ing friends in ThOrndike this week.
A. B. Payson is having quite quantity
OF wood cut on the Almon S. Forbes place,
Ernest, son of Wm Gould, has bought
his time of his father and will now hustle
for himself.
Otis W. Lane and Charles Dckey return
ed last week from successful hunt, oring-
ing home three deer.
Adelbert Bowen, who has been very sick
with appendicitis, is much better though
still confined to his house.
A. f. Chase is shipping quite quantity
of hay as usual. NJ. J. Dow has loaded
few cars for Boston parties.
Miss Grace f. Dow is spending the holi-
days in the store, where they have a large
and nice line of seasonable goods.
Ross F. Jones and Frank Qumby have
each loaded ID car with wood for Por land.
$3.50 is the price received here on the cars.
Our stores are We'll stocked with Christ
mas Souus, UuJ Lar lne safes nave been
very hsht wing 10 the unlaNorao weather.
We want to see some apple buyers here
We have crop OF Nice apples rottlug ir the
cellar While our creditors are clamorng for
their money.
The grangers treated themselves to an
oyster supper last Monday evening. Visit
ors were present from Thorndike, Jackson
and Monroe.
Treat Mason OF Monroe is studying with
Dr. n. K. Cook to be a physician. Dr.. Cook
is said to be well informed i'll his profession
and especially skillful in fevers, having had
good drill i'll hospital practice.
The death of Amos Hatch Of jackson re-
moved business man we'll and favorably
known III this part Of the state For
many years he bought large quantities of
wood, and sold agricultural implements
Brooks was his shipping point, and he was
early as well known here as in his own
town.
The roller for breaking roads was tested
last week on some of the hill districts, and
50 far the verdict is in its favor. 1t crushes
down the snow and makes good, wide,
hard road with much less expenditure of
power than is required with the old fash
ioned method of a sled with a stick chained
under it, And you go over the drifts in
stead of tunnelling through them, thus saw
ing a large amount of shoveling during the
winter.
BY reason Of the sickness of some of the
principals in the entertainment expected at
the Good 1emplar lodge last Saturday
evening the whole matter was deferred 10
this week, when, W. are Informed b. the
committee, Il supper, at least, Will be given,
the program To depend upon circumstances
As before the ladies are ;tll expected to con-
tribute something in the pastry line, while
the gentlemen viii make up Il purse to pro-
vide coffee, sugal, cream, etc.
Last week We had genuine surprise 1t
is ii singular thing, but for many years
when sleeping at the farm, if very tired We
often dream the railroad runs over the hill
and back over the farm through the Knox
bog into ThorndiEe, and We imagine that
We see OF hear the trains. Well, we were
coming from the hin the other morning and
/ at the Webber place We held up our horses
with a jerk. For a moment We imagined
our oft-repeated dreams had come true and
that Charlie Shaw was coming up over
Sprout Hill with his engine At the foot Of
the hill there was something, and il was
coming right along up the hill, too. AS it
drew nearer, however, we recognized Joe
Stlmpson,our road commissioner, " ith eight
horses and his crew of men. Without any
fuss or bother they marched over the hill
where as a boy We have seen a team of a
dozen pairs of oxen and steers dragging a
heavily clogged sled over the drifts, and
We had to confess as they passed that the
big roller was success.
The Maine Ice Fields