The Republican journal., 1904-12-15
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Chas F. Bessey returned from Barre,
Vt, Saturday.
Fanny Merritt has returned from a few
weeks visit in Massachusetts.
Mrs. Mary feathers, formerly of Lowell,
Mass. is visiting friends in town.
cantata is being rehearsed for the Sun
day school Christmas entertainment.
Miss Alice L. Dow went to Waterville
Saturday to visit her friend, Mrs. r. B. Hall.
c. F. Files and wife are welcomed back to
Brooks with pleasure by their many friends.
Mrs. James Bushfeld of Haverhill, Mass,
is visiting her mother, Mrs. Mahaa Forbes.
Mrs. Charles Page, better known here as
Bernice Jones, is spending few weeks
with Mrs. E. 0. Stantial.
Miss Grace Dow is doing some writing for
Walter Gibbs, who is closing up his business
in nursery stock for the year
The water is low in Marsh stream and
Roberts & Son and Hall and Peavey have
been obliged to stop their mills.
Ira w. Bowden has gone to Florida to
spend the winter. He has rented his black
smith shop to man who will manufacture
oars.
Mrs. Parsons, or Margaret Forbes, as we
used to know her in Brooks, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Louisa Cilley, in Augusta Her
health is very poor this winter.
Mrs. c. H. Forbes, our cat fancier, sent
away % of the felines in one day last week.
She has regular customers in several States
and gives much of her time to the business.
Frank b. Simpson had the misfortune to
cut Off the end of his thumb while at work
with circular saw recently. 1t necessi-
tates hiring man to work in the shop with
him.
E. }. Hatch of Montville visited Eastern
Star Chapter last week. He represents the
Liberty Chapter. Officers were elected, re-
freshments served, and a pleasant evening
spent.
Guy Twombly and wife and several other
Monroe people were at our minstrel enter
tainment last week. Our Monroe friends
u
get them at home.
One or two farceS will be given in the
Good Templar Lodge next Saturday even
ing and good time is expected. Candidates
are still being initiated, and it is the social
organization of the town
A. B. PaysOn, our rural free delivery
man, has bought nice little mare of 7. l.
He now has three of them for
his business and they look so much alike
that the ordinary observer cannot tell
which is which.
Rev. E. E. Colburn is to continue his in
beresting Sunday evening lectures during
The winter and special invitation is ex-
tended to our friends outside the village to
come in and hear him. The church is well
warmed and lighted, the seats are free, and
every body is welcomed
The entertainment given Wednesday
evening, Dec. 7th, in Union hall by our local
black faced MINISTRIES proved to be an in
teresting and amusing affair. Some three
hundred people We're in attendance and
everybody seemed pleased. They are to be
at Unity tomorrow, Friday, evening and
our friends there will find it worth while
to attend. 1t is worth the price of admis-
sion to see Charlie R0lfe in his makeup of
a stylish young lady.
A sad case, the knowledge of which came
like shock to US, was the sudden death of
Otis Elwell of this town. He had been
about his business as usual though he COM
planned of not being well. He came to the
village Friday and settled up his hay bust
ness with A. E. Chase. He then drove to
Waldo and settled an account with Fred
Littleield and got home about o'clock in
the afternoon. As he did not come into
the house his wife became anxious and
went out to the barn where she found him
dead on high NOW, where he had gone to
pitch down some hay. The fork was still
grasped in his hand. Heart failure was
pronounced to be the cause of his death.
He was So years old, veteran of the civil
war, and highly respected citizen.