The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-06-08
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

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M. S. Stiles has sold the Hobbs place to
Will Deering.
Edmund Young has employment with
John Gordon this summer.
Earle d. Bessey waSat home from Bates
a few days last week.
Harry Hutchinson has returned from a
visit with friends in DixmOnt.
Ralph Ellis and George Ryder have had
sheep killed by dogs recently.
Mrs. Annie Hamlin of Vassalboro visited
friends here last Thursday.
Sarah j. Cole of Thorndike visited
friends in this village last week.
Miss Josie NJ. Brown has returned from
a visit with relatives in Dixmont
Thursday, with Harvest Home Grange.
E. K. Knowlton and wife are visiting his
father, Manley KnowltOn, in Prospect.
Mrs. Susan Lord left Wednesday for a
visit with l.er sister in Reading, Mass.
Augustus Small, wife and little son of
Palmyra visited friends in town last week.
David Fogg is at work for NJ. j. Dow and
the farm.
Rev K. A. Myers occupied the pulpit for
Rev. E. E. Colburn last Sunday evening.
He also assisted two weeks ago.
Mrs Robinson of Brdgewater is visiting
friends in town. We know her here as
Belle Roberts
Mrs. Payson of Haverhill is spending
few weeks with her friend, Mrs. Nora
Daniels.
Ira S. Grady has employment in a black
smith shop in Thorndike. He is called a
nice workman
A large acreage of potatoes is being plant
ed here. ArOOStoOk methods prevail and
there are several planting machines in this
vicinity.
Will Work has been in poor health this
spring, but is able to look after his bust
ness.
DR.. A. W. Rich has had another sick
spell, but is now able to get out little on
pleasant days.
Stanley Roberts is pressing hay. He has
one of the best teams and one of the very
best presses in Waldo county.
L. A. Bachelor, who has installed gaso-
lene engine in his repair shop, finds it a
valuable accessory to his business.
The E. c. Holbrook house has been re-
built and refinished outside, making great
Improvement in that corner.
A. B. Huff is building the cellar for the
new house that Isaac S. Staples is to build
near his shop.
Leroy and Lewis Godding are busy at
house painting. Stanley Perkins and Geo.
Miller are also busy in the same line
Walter E. Gibbs has sold his sorrel mare
"ROxy" to Brcoksville parties. She was
one of the best 1oadsters owned in this
section.
There We're frosts three nights of last
week, which it is feared did much damage
to gardens and fruit trees.
Fred W. Brown, Jr., is building an addi-
tion to the ''Advocate" office to make room
for gaSolene engine.
Llewellyn Simpson, who makes bis home
with his daughter Lillian in Knox, called
on friends here last week.
James B. McTaggart has been on the sick
list and confined to the house some two
weeks, but is now able to be about his bust
ness.
Almon S. Forbes arrived on the Saturday
evening train from Waterbury,, Conn,
where he spent the winter with his daugh-
ter Cora.
Mrs. Nora Daniels and Mrs. Flora
Thompson visited their aunts, Mrs. Maggie
Parsons and Mrs. Mary Leathers, at their
home in Troy last week.
Mrs. Minnie Tasker visited her sister,
Mrs. Estes, last week. Mrs. Tasker's
many friends are glad to see her out after
| her long illness.
Members of Brooks Lodge of Good Tenn
pIars are contemplating visit to Belfast
Lodge IN the near future; perhaps on the
full of the moon this month. They will
make upa buck board load or two ii they 60
NJ. j. Dow has some and 10 foot horse
Iakes, for which he has demand AS the
farms grow smoother there is a call for
more and larger machinery. With the pres
ent scarcity of help it is the farmers only
way out.
The attention of our citizens is called to
the hearing on the Ellis road matter at the
home of Joseph Ellis June Goth. The
county commissioners have given the
legal notices in The Journal and will
determine the limit of the road on that date
We sampled the ice cream served by
Jenkins and Rose at their lunch room the
other day and found the quality excellent
and the quantity generous. 1t is hoped
they may make success of the venture as
it is handy both for our own people and for
outsiders. 1t is nice place for ladies who
are here shopping to make call,
The Brooks base ball club defeated East
Thorndike last Saturday in lively contest
ed game in East Thorndike, defeating the
home team by the score of 10 to T. Sum
mary:
/ . 8 4 6
Brooks. ::.....5 l 0 0 o -15
Z. Thorndike.. % l 1 l l 1 o. Z
Struck out by Lane, 20; by Ward, 4.
The next game will be with jackson at
Jackson Corner next Saturday, June 10.
Post master c. A. Lane and family and
carrier A. B. Payson and wife attended the
clam bake of the Waldo County Rural Car
riers Association on '.Strout's Shore" Bel
fast, June 4, and speak yery highly of the