The Republican journal., 1905-09-21
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

| lh4tlihOiS Scouo'
Harry johnson has raised his house ant
put cellar underit
| Mrs Hattie Rowe has been yisittns
| friends III SWanYille.
| John H. Gordon and wife are on a yaca
| ton trip to Nanceboro.
Miss Cassie Badershall is with Mrs. Dow
the milliner, for few weeks.
! Frank Holbrook returned to the L. of NJ
| last week from his summer vacation.
| Rev. f. f. Colburn is moving into the
new cottage Just built by Isaac S. Staples
| 1t is said that daughter of Samuel Ell
| we'll OF South Brooks is sick with diphtheria
H. A. Black and wife of Belfast were il
| town Sunday to attend the funeral Of Geo
| f. Card
| Mrs. r. Z. Weber has been very i'll fol
| some months and no hope is entertained OF
| her recovery.
| Mrs. W. r. Simpson has been very il
| for some weeks and her friends are appre
| henSive of the result.
Will Hail and family from Fairfield are
at Shadrack Halls for brief visit and tC
attend the Monroe fair.
mer with her sister, Mrs. John H. Gordon
is visiting friends in DiXton.
Joseph G. Simpson has done good iol
| on the State road and has very materially
| reduced the grade of Simpson hill.
Mrs. Lottie Watts, who has been i'll all
summer at the home of her sister, Mrs
James Grover, is somewhat improved il
health
Rev. and Mrs. F. F. Coburn have moved
into the new cottage built for them this
season by Isaac S. Staples. 1t will make a
nice parsonage
Herbert S. Hatch of Lynn, Mass, has
been visiting Chas f. Bowen and family
Delbert treated them to a blackboard ride
| Sunday evening.
The church services are made very in
| terestlng, and people who do not attent
Miss pleasant hour to say nothing of the
, moral influences.
| Almon S. Forbes, our oldest native born
citizen, was at the Belfast fair last week
| and sold over three dozen hickory goar(
sticks of his own manufacture.
NJ. j. Dow has taken the place of Z. D
| bessey as salesman for the monumental
work of the Bessey Granite Company anG
| Will make speciality of that business.
Ieb. T.. I di u, Tie UlutSl IbSlutuL Ol bIOUk :
] died at the residence of his son-in-law, f
| g. Roberts, last Friday The funeral was
held Sunday, Rev. F. S. Dolitf officiating
Freddie Joyce of Stonington, Me, has
| been visiting in Brooks, As a child he
| lived in the family of L. c. Cilley, his mother
! being dead, and this seems like home to him
Miss Bertha Hall, who has been with
Mrs. Samuel Reynolds for some months
went to Fairfield, Tuesday, for few weeks
visit with the family of her uncle, Will Hall
| The corn factory started up last Monday
| with quite a crew. Eighteen Italians are
employed as huskers and about twenty five
of our own people are employed in the
| building.
| Charles and Augustus Swift Of Belfast
| were in Brooks last Sunday and took din.
way for a Sunday outing and we are glad tc
see them.
Mrs. Hattie Jenkins and Miss Phebe
Rose, who have been conducting an ice
cream parlor next to the church this sum
! mer, report very satisfactory business for
the season.
{. P. Durrell, principal of the High school
took trip to Oxford last Friday afternoon
returning Monday evening. Grace E. Dow,
the assistant, had charge of the school III
his absence,
Everett Tasker and wife, nee Grace
Simpson, have moved into the l.. C.
Jones house which they recently bought
We are glad to welcome MIR. Tasker as a
real estate owner and permanent resident
of Brooks.
| Misses Lura and Geneva Forbes of Bos
ton, who are spending their vacation at the
| homestead with their father. Fran CTS NJ
| Forbes, drove to Troy last Monday to visit
| their aunt, Mrs Maggie Parsons, who has
been very ILL.,
A pleasant meeting the other day was
| that of Martha f. Luce, Mrs. J. c, Rose
| Mrs. Wesley Lane and Mrs. Lois Little.
| field from widely scattered homes Ole
! friends, chums and schoolmates in the days
of Aud Lang Syne.
Herbert Hamlin, who runs the livery
| stable, is having quite business with tn T
| buck boards. Last Sunday be carried l
l. Huxford, F. r. York, Alfred iuxfor,d,
| and their ladies', on a drive to swan Lake
| returning in the evening.
| Mrs Hollis Grover and children are visit
| ing the family of James Grover III this
| town. Hollis was born in Brooks anc
spent his boyhood here, but for seyeTa
! years he has been conductor on one OF the
electric roads in Massachusetts.
Fred Moulton and wife have returned
| from Fairfield, where they visited Forest
Sanborn and family, who are about to start
| for California for the benefit of Mrs. San
born's health. She has been III for some
time. Her friends here remember her as
Minnie Pulley.
| We have lots of pretty dears in BROOKS
but a more unusual sight was that OF
pretty deer seen on the railroad track on !
recent trip to Belfast. If this sort OF thlne
| continues we shall have to sit up nlghts u
"shoo" them away from our front yards
the deers we mean.
| Mrs Wesley Lane and Mrs. Lois Little
| field of Milford, Mass, are visltlhg thell
old home in Brooks. They are better re
membered here as daughters OF the ia!'
Darling Cilley of this town, where thel
| childhood was passed
| We learn that Lloyd Stantial, OF Belfast
High school, '05, is to start in as teacher II
| Northport. His father, A. b., was lor soill'
years teacher and superlntenuent
| schools in this town. IL LLOYD is anythl ~,
| like the old man those urchins Will Toe III
| mark.
| And now it transpires that Harry M
| Brown, our ambitious and talented yonhl
printer, has captured bride In the p9rsog11
Of Miss May Webb, daughter OF n
Webb, our well known section boss EVtls
body knows them and everybody Wlshe
! them long, successful and happy Weooe'
| life.