The Republican journal., 1904-05-12
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.


A. B. Payson has moved back to his farm.
Vesta Rose is teaching school in Jackson.
Isaac feathers is buying wool at the
station.
DR.. Prince E. Luce called upon friends
here last week.
Leonard Rowe, one of the old residents
of the town, is quite ill.
Miss Josie Brown, who has been very
sick, is much better.
Walter Gibbs has returned from Georgia,
where he passed the winter.
Mrs. George Miller, Jr., visited friends
here last week, with her two boys.
Among the recent additions to the tele-
phone line are W. S. Jones and c. E. Lane.
People are just beginning to do their
spring work. But little has been done yet
Miss Mary ]. Lane, who was very dan
gerously i'll last winter. has regained her
usual health.
Mrs. A. E. Chase has so far recovered
from her injury as to be able to walk with
the aid of a crutch.
Mrs. Dow and daughter Alice began their
millinery work Monday morning with II
orders ahead of them.
E. A. Carpenter is doing lively business
in fertilizer and farming implements during
his vacation season.
Mrs. Susa A. Hall has returned from
Fairfield, where she visited her son Walter,
who is section boss on the railroad.
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of the Grand Masonic lodge in Portland
last week as Master of his own lodge.
The school board have engaged L. L.
Woods of Knox, a graduate of the Normal
school and student at Colby college, as
teacher for the fall term of the High school.
Persis, widow of the late Coleman Hall,
died at the residence of her brother-in-law,
S. S. Roberts, Sunday afternoon. Her i'll
ness was of short duration and resulted at
last in heart failure.
We are pleased to learn that E. F. Little
field, who has had a second attack of pneu-
monia since last fall, is rapidly recovering.
He is student at the University of Maine
Law School and in his Junior year.
Henry Cunningham is receiving congrat-
ulations, as his wife last week presented
ly known here as May Miller, is now the
mother of four boys, after about years Of
married life.
The memorial service of Golden Crown
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Silver
take place Sunday, May 10Th, at two D. m.
The sermon will be delivered by Rev. E. E.
Colburn. Both lodges will attend in body
W. C. Deering has sold his farm on Gould
hill, through the Strout farm agency to
Samuel H. Stacey of Benton, who has taken
possession. Mr.. Deering has not fully de-
cided where to locate, but will probably
continue with A. E. Chase for the present
The funerals of Lorenzo Small, who was
accidentally burned to death in Jackson last
Saturday, and of Mrs. Persis Hall, who
died suddenly at the home of her brother
in-law, S. S. Roberts, Sunday, were held
Tuesday. Both interments were in the
cemetery at Brooks.
The sidewalk opposite Union church has
become defective and was closed TO travel
by road commissioner Bowen this week. It
is understood to be the intention to widen
the street, much needed improvement, as
it is entirely too narrow to accommodate
the heavy travel at this point.
The Good Templar Lodge had nice en-
tertainment last Saturday evening. There
were two dialogues and violin solo by
John Leonard, with May Huxford as &C
evening there will be play, full of fun, on
the program and it means a full hall
The friends of NJ. j. Dow have caught
him again trying to burn up some stones
beside the road near his buildings, where
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rubbish that he had raked up. This freak
seems to attack him every spring and it is
thought to be the result of so much labor and
money spent in hauling rocks at his farm
that it has affected his mind.
The prospect for a corn factory the pres
ent year is excellent. There will be large
acreage planted and the quality of the seed,
which is now being rapidly delivered, is
much better than last year 1t has been
proved beyond question that the soil of this
section is remarkably adapted to the pro-
duction of sweet corn, the, pack of Brooks
factory being of the finest quality.
Everett Felker has put into practice some
of the scientific education that he has OBJ
tanned at school and by home study. His
sister, who was recently married to Jasper
Weber, lives about a mile from the old
homestead and naturally liked to hear from
home occasionally, so they put up a tee-
phone line between the places and put in
good instruments. The cost of material all
told was only about twenty five dollars, and
now they can talk back and forth the same
as if they were only in the next room, which
affords them much satisfaction.
BURNED TO DEATH. A sad affair occur
red just over the line in Jackson in which
AlonZo Small was burned to death. For
some months he had been stopping with the
family of Nicholas Varney. Mrs. Varney
is his sister. AS we have the story, after
eating his dinner Friday he went out to
walk and kept on to bush piece some dis
lance from the house. He did not return at
supper time and they began to search for
him and continued the search with lanterns.
He was not found until Saturday morning,
and it was evident that he had burned to
DEATH Switches of brush were lying around
which indicated that he had tried to ex-
tinguish the fire. 1t is thought the fire was
started by coal from his pipe or from
lighted match carelessly thrown down. The
hair was burned from his head and face
and he was badly dishsured. In the mean
time large fire had got started which was
with difficulty extinguished. Many rods of
fence were burned but luckily no buildings
were destroyed. Mr.. Small was about 70
years of age, and served in the Civil War as
a member of the 3rd Michigan Regt. He
had lived in the West many years and came
from Oregon to visit his relatives He had
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