The Republican journal., 1905-07-20
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

C. II. Roberts has raised some very nice
strawberries for the local market.
Mrs. George johnson, who has been in
poor health all summer, has taken her
Mrs. E. O. Stantial is still on the invalid
listand is confined to her bed most of the
time
NJ. j. Dow has sold his oxen for beef and
Is now ready to buy pair of good handy
workers.
| Mrs. Augustine Thompson of Boston is
spending few weeks at the R. W. Forbes
homestead.
Jesse z. Forbes is taking down the old R.
| W.. Forbes shop and will move it to his place
ana Mt 1t up for his own use.
G. E. Hustus is running beef and fish
cart on alternate days. He is much improv-
| Ing the Noah johnson buildings.
! Lottie Watts, who has been very i'll, re-
| cently submitted to surgical operation
ana az last accounts was doing finely.
c. 81. Forbes has had good luck selling
his horse hoes. The best are none too good
Tor the farmers in these strenuous times
c. E. Felker returned to the Bangor Hos
pital recently for further treatment. The
physicians speak very hopefully in regard
VIM. Gould has been spotting some beef
! stock for the buyers of the Bean Beef Co.
| OF Bangor, who purchase considerable stock
OF that kind in this vicinity.
| Fred w. Emmons has opened the Benz.
Ham farm house and will reside there for
| the season, much to the delight of Mrs.
EmmonS, who was born there.
| Francis NJ Forbes is opening and clean
| ing up the old house, which has been closed
| Tor the winter, in preparation for the arrival
of his daughters, who are coming home
| from Boston to spend the summer
Mrs. R. B. Hall of Waterville is visiting
| her friend, Miss Alice L. Dow All will be
| pleased to know that Prof. Hall is very
| much improved in health, having rallied
| from the severe illness of last winter.
MIR. Geo. Card, who was stricken with a
| paralytic shock last week, is still in a near
" helpless condition and his case is doubt
| less hopeless, as he is long past eighty years
of age. He is the oldest man in Brooks
NJ. J. Dow has opened his farm house for
housekeeper, which is great delight to her
Nothing pleases her more than to be out
among the green fields and lovely trees Of
| her childhood home.
The wires will be soon strung on the tele-
phone line from Morrill, TO Brooks as far as
the residence of Joseph Littlefeld. Then
Joseph, sour joe" can sit in his own domi-
cile surrounded by all the beauties of rural
scenery and commune with the world out
| side at his own sweet will.
E. o. Stantial was quite painfully injured
| last week. He was hauling hay rake be-
hind a wagon when the rake wheel hit an
obstruction knocking the thills to one side
and striking Mr.. Stantial on the head a
| clip sufficient to throw him onto the ground,
where he remained unconscious for some
| time.
While in Unity recently we called to see
| Capt. Stephen Larrabee, who has owned
considerable real estate in Brooks. He has
nice buildings and fine farm in Unity and
is hustler on the land as well as at sea-
| His present housekeeper is Mrs. Bowen,
formerly known as Estella Pattee of Brooks
The farmers began haying last week Just
little, to get ready for business in earnest,
which is now on. The remainder of the
month they will be at it with rush. The
grass is from week to ten days later than
usual and the first mowings produced a
light crop. Six feet moving machines are
used as rule, but there are some seven
feet ones now in this vicinity. Team work
is utilized as far as possible to gather this
Expensive crop.
The following note, written on a postal
| card, was forwarded last Monday:
! BROOKS, July H. 1905.
| Hon. L. T. Carleton. Chairman of Game Commits
| SlOnerS.
Dear Sir: One of your moose has been running
| around in Brooks and bothering us some Please
| come and get him home as we are too busy hay
| ing to stop and fence.
| Yours truly,
| MARCELLUs J. Dow,
| Chairman of Selectmen.
And now c. Z. Lane is it with big l.
Mr.. Lane is the well known general agent
for the Union Mutual Life Insurance Co.
and some months ago married a charming
| young woman who has now complimented
i her delighted husband by presenting him
with beautiful baby girl. Charles has
been rather pensive and sedate of late but
now his exuberance of animal spirits ex-
ceeds, if possible, his previous records. The
best of everything seems coming his way.
The following marriage notce..Wil be of
interest to many people, especially residents
Of Brooks and Winterport. Mrs. Mark
Blasdel was formerly Miss Caro- Penney OF
| Brooks and a well known school teacher in
Waldo county. She was teaching in Win
terport when she met Mr. Blaisdell and
they were married there. Mrs. Blaisdell
was born in the town of Knox and has
many friends and relatives there:
H1GGINS-BLAIsDELL NUPTIALs. In the
presence Of small but happy company of
relatives, Miss Mary Lee Blaisdell, eldest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Leslie