The Republican journal., 1905-06-15
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Mrs. Hattie Rowe has been visiting friends
in Swanville.
Geo. Ryder is getting the foundation ready
for his new barn.
Miss Flossie Larrabee of Jackson is work
ing in GOrdOn's shop.
Rev. and Mrs. David Bracket are visit
ing friends in Brooks.
Miss Blanche Stacy is just recovering
from an attack OF appendicitis.
Rev. E. E. Colburn has been away for
the past week on business trip.
The latest wedding notice in town is that
of Riley Prime and Miss May Brown.
You Just do not want to miss the "Big
Show" gotten up by the ladies OF BROOKS.
Everett Tasker has bought the L. c. Jones
house, now occupied by Rev. E. E. Colburn.
DR.. Matthew Weber of Fairfield is visit
ing his nephew, R. E. Weber of this town.
The warrant is in the hands of our con-
stable and the dog licenses must be paid at
once.
Mrs. Frances Merritt has arrived home
after stay of several months in BroOkline,
Mass.
EDen MllltE, WIN 10 LII lbS O14 Viz AVA itAO
Central, spent last Sunday at his home in
Brooks.
Several of our Good Templars expect 10
attend the district lodge in Belfast next
Saturday.
Mrs. Samuel Reynolds, who has been in
poor health many months, is now very DAN
gerously ill.
The Ladies' Aid Society held hulled
corn supper and social in the vestry We'd
nesday evening.
II, f. Staples has been confined to the
hOuse for more than week with severe
cold or the grip.
Miss Lizzie Cilley picked G mess Of field
strawberries June 9th. This we think beats
the record for Brooks.
Mrs. Roscoe E. Weber, who has been in
poor health for some months, is consider
ably worse at this time.
Mrs. A. E. Chase has been seriously
affected with rheumatic trouble this sum-
mer and does not get out much.
Miss Christine Jones has been very sick.
anu Just escaped having rheumatic fever,
but is now able to be around again.
Edwin Reynolds of Unity, with his wife
and children, was in town MONDAY anu
$780,
A. S. Forbes, s. years old, has quite bad
cold, contracted recently While IN olg
annie tree grating. How is that for high?
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A Carpenter and Mr.. and
Mrs, G. A. Morrill, attended the concert
given by the Apollo quartette in Bangor
Thursday night.
The next issue of the Advocate will
appear June oath. The addition to the
will
up in few days.
The local telephone company is extending
its lines in various directions and of course
the more persons it reaches the more valu-
able it is to those who use 1t.
II. r. Dawson of Monroe occupied the
pulpit here Sunday III the absence OF heV;
F. f. COlhurn, and gave very earnest anu
forcible address on the subject of ''Prayer.'
R. F. Weber has obtained a thorough
bred Holsten bull from the Fairvlew Farm
Of New York. 1t is two years old and MT
Weber has glt-edged certificate vi Its
pedigree.
The Brooks base ball team defeated the
South jackson base ball team last Saturday
in a one-sided game by score OF p to 4.
The one feature of the game was the pitch
ing of Lane. Summary:
Brooks ............7 1 ; . 2
South Jackson.....1 U U l
Home runs, Reynolds and Cook of Brooks.
Struck out by Lane, 2O Webb, 81; Hamlll,
>. Batteries, Brooks, Reynolds and Lane
Hamin, Webb and Hamlin Base on balls,
off Lane, =; Webb, T. Umpire, liutcnlmson.
The next game will be between Brooks
and Freedom, Saturday, June 18th, III Free
dom.
carefully posted in our store Thursday
The Big Show,
Saturday at 2p. nj. in A. H. Pllleys Barn
Good Dialogues and Negro Song Singing,
and Good Costumes
1ntermlssion, p. H.
Good Candy to Sell Cheap.
Tickets so that you Can draw things Tree
An be sure and come; got up by the ladies'
OF Brooks.
Admission, > cent.
Children, cent.
Yes, YOU can bet that this will be the big
show OF the season and you don't want 10
miss it. The rehearsals have been long ana
painstaking and the costumes, will dazzle
and beWilder the inexperienced eye. Ana
they are going for your cold cash, 100 we
suggested to the "young lady," who after
posting the notice promptly asked Tor the
price of ticket, that it was customary tor
!. the big shows to furnish tickets in return
for window space and that any way report
| ers ought to be admitted free. But with
| cold business CLEAN in her steel blue eye
she allowed that this company wasn't doing
business that way. SO we had to go down
deep into our pockets for enough of our
hard earned cash to pay for the coveted
ticket From the corner of our eye we no
tced that her black stockings showed a
good ways up beneath her short skilts and
we were duly impressed with her business
ability. The members of this talented and
| soon to be distinguished troop are all the
! way from the mature age of ten or twelve
down to the milk draners, and tie range OF
their histrionic attempt will be varied ana