The Republican journal., 1903-07-02
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Mrs. Susan Hall went to Waterville last
Monday morning to visit her son.
Mrs. John Dickey is in Fairfield visiting
| her son Walter and his family.
Mr.. Bgelow Bachelor. the veteran car
riage ironer, has for some weeks been az
work for Isaac S. Staples.
Hugh Gordon has fitted up the Isaac
S. Staples blacksmith shop and is doing a
fine business as horseshoer.
Mrs. George Dickey and daughter are Wis
iting friends in town. Mr.. Dickey has a
position on a railroad in Massachusetts.
Mrs, c. H. Forbes went to Lowell, Mass,
last week to attend the funeral OF her
brother-in-law, DR.. Augustine Thompson.
| Miss Sarah Haskell, who has made her
home for some years with the family OF
Isaac S. Staples, is visiting friends in Fair
] field.
Miss Mabel Webber, who has been con-
fined to the house by illness for some
weeks, visited friends at the village last
Sunday
Miss Evie Roberts, who for some time
has worked as dressmaker. is in poor
health and has been obliged to give up
work for time at least.
Mr.. Harry Waning died quite suddenly
here last week. He had driven Mr.. Bes-
seys team all the day before, and in the
morning was conversing with the family
about local events when he complained OF
not feeling we'll He laid down on the
lounge and expired in few moments. He
was brother of Edgar Waning, who also
died very suddenly few years ago.
Your correspondent attended the funeral
of Mrs. Amanda Pinkham at Branch Mills
in Palermo last Sunday and was very much
impressed with the expressions of love and
respect manifested by the entire community.
The church was crowded and everybody
seemed to be mourner. For many years
she was superintendent of the Sunday
school and the children were present in
body. Among the many beautiful flowers
presented by loving friends none were
more expressive than the 63 field daisies
gathered by the children as last token
of love for their teacher.
MANY of the readers of the Brooks news
in The Journal remember well George Da-
mon, who for many years lived on the Saw
YER place on Sprout Hill lie is now in the
eighties, but is still hale and vigorous. In
his early years he was quite musician and
was known in the sixties as famous bug
ler He was in the Aroostook war as mu-
scian. His services with the nfe and drum
are still in requisiton and he will play on
the 4th of July at Freedom. He has his
third wife, and for some twenty years has
lived in South Freedom. We called upon
him the other day and he inquired for
everybody that he ever knew here.
NJ. j. Dow and wife have returned from
carriage drive into kennebec county,
where they met several old friends and
acquaintances, among them b. j. Hussey
and family. Mrs Hussey is we'll known to
everybo in Brooks as Celia Lane. A few
years ago Mr.. Hussey bought farm in the
town of Windsor. On it was an old house
and two poor DarnS. Inc people WHO udu
lived there had driven their cattle some
distance to water and had brought the
water for use in the house for some rods,
year after year. Mr. Hussey has torn down
the old barns and built new one, 100X45,
and finished in modern style. His stables
and the tie-up for the cattle are worth look
ing at. From a pump in one end OF the tie
up he pours water into a trough in front of
twenty-five cattle in a few moments. A
pump in the house sink furnishes all the
water needed And yet the water is taken
from the same wells that the former pro-
prietor used. In cold winter day he can
do every chore about the buildings and not
take step out of doors. 1t is a splendid
example to any young farmer of what can
be done with industry and a little ingenuity.
1t is strange how many of us get along year
after year in the same old wasteful, careless,
slip-shod way, when it would be much
easier and more profitable to live in differ
ent way.