The Republican journal., 1903-11-12
The NEWS OF BROOKS.
Mrs. Talbot of Belfast visited friends in
Brooks last week.

Mrs. Talbot Of Belfast visited friends In
Brooks last week.
DR.. and Mrs. Dutton of Fairfield have
been visiting at Wilbur Barker's.
Charles H. Forbes has his cellar closed in
and the frame up for the new house he is
building.
Nelson Reynolds and Joseph Decr0w OF
this town are working on the railroad near
Detroit.
Frank HolbrOOk, who is attending the
University of Maine, is a member OF the
Cadet Band.
Miss Mabel Rose, who teaches the Gram
mar school in Morrill,, is at home for one
weeks vacation.
Mrs. A. B. Shibles of Knox Station visit
ed her mother, Mrs. Josephine Fogg OF this
village, last Monday.
George L. Hall and wife started for Me
thuen, Mass, last Monday. They have en-
ployment there for the winter
! Miss Marie Chase came home from New
port last Friday evening to visit her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Chase.
Miss Esther Colson, who spent the sum-
mer at Seal Harbor. has been visiting her
cousin, Mrs. York, of our hotel.
Ansel Pettingill is building over his old
house as a residence, the one in which he
has lived having been sold to Frank Fogg.
! Mrs. Lena West of Gardiner recently
visited her two sons, who are living in the
family of Capt Stanley Perkins OF this viii
lage.
Miss Eva Grady, who is attending the
High school in Belfast, came home last FIJI
day to visit her parents, returning to school
| Monday morning.
Frank Daniels, who married Miss Nora
Forbes of this town, is at home from Mas
sachusetts, where he has had employment
the past few months.
"The Widows Might" will be presented
! at the Good Templars Lodge next Saturday
evening with Mrs. T. l. Huxford as Aunt
Jemima, supported by a good company.
Mrs. Jane D. Bowen, who for some time
lived alone in the town of Monroe, was
found to be very i'll and was taken to the
family of Isaiah Hall, where she is being
cared for
NJ j. Dow has engaged with the Grand
Lodge of Maine to canvass Waldo county
| in the interest of the Good Templars. 1t
is expected that every town will be visited
sometime during the winter.
The water corporation extended their
line to the Capt. Bennett place recently,
and quite on amount of work has been done
under the direction of John II. Gordon, the
local representative of the company.
Word has been received here that Edwin
Reynolds of Unity is dangerously ill with
appendicitis. MIR. Reynolds many friends
in this, his native town, are glad to learn
| that the indications point towards recovery
We received a call from Haverhill, Mass,
| for a CODY of last weeks Journal which in
some way was lost before it reached the
| subscriber. The journal is like visit
| from an old friend to our people away from
home.
| Miss Grace f. Dow, who with friend
has kept the farm house open for her father
during the summer, concluded that it was
too near the frigid zone last Saturday and
Sunday and has moved back to the village
home for the winter.
Golden Crown Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
had visitors from Freedom and Dixmont
last week and served one of their social
lunches. They, too, have some candidates
on the list and society business looks lively
for the coming winter.
John Irving, our we'll known blacksmith,
is considered dangerously i'll with fever.
He came in here with the railroad and has
resided here ever since. He has accumu-
lated property, has been a model citizen,
and we all hope he may be spared to us
long time yet Ira Grady of Belfast has
been his partner in business the past year.
DR.. \. R. Cook for the school committee
of Brooks is arranging for a general as
town at the G. A. r. hall the night before
Thanksgiving, the whole affair to be under
the direction and special charge of the
superintendent and school committee and
| their ladies. A big time for the little folks
is expected.
! Wednesday evening, Nov. 4th, Marsh
River Lodge of Masons had work in the
end and 3rd degrees, and about midnight
they partook of plain but appetizing
lunch, which was followed by smoke talk
Several brethren from DixmOnt were pres
ent. There are more candidates in the list
| for admission and the indications are for
| lots of work this winter.
The snow storm of Saturday was dandy
for the first one of the winter, and only the
18th of November, too. Our mail teams all
went on runners that day. Nine head Of
| Young cattle and four colts were in NJ. j.
| bows back pasture and nothing could be
done with them until Sunday morning,
| when they were got out. With not par
| ticle of food except what they had got in
the pasture they all came out fat.
| Howard B. Ham, who moved to Fairfield
last winter to educate his two youngest
sons at the Good Will school, has been at
his farm here, which he did not sell, to dis
pose of the crops and close up the place for
the winter. Mrs. Ham recently returned
from the General Hospital at Bangor,
where she underwent surgical operation
for the removal of tum0r. Her friends
in this vicinity will be glad to know that
the indications are favorable for complete
rocovarv