The Republican journal., 1906-05-24
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Joseph Stantial is very dangerously i'll.
Chas H. Forbes has returned from a busi-
ness trip to Boston.
Mrs. Lottie Watts goes to Massachusetts
| next week for the summer.
Mrs. G. NJ. Morrill, has returned from a
visit with her mother in Swanville, who is
very ill.,
Mrs. Howard B. Ham of Fairfield, who
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Asa
Jones, has returned home.
The last of May is the busy time for our
milliners and dressmakers and they are
just too busy for anything.
Joseph n. CHM, one of our most intell-
| gent farmers and orchardists, reports find
ing nests of the brown-tail moths.
j. H. Hobbs has now thirteen very nice
horses at his stables He will take them all
/ TO Bar HarbOr as soon as the season opens.
Ira S. Grady has taken charge of the L.
| A. Batchelder blacksmith shop and reports
business good. Mr.. Batchelder is now busy
at the farm
Miss Agnes Vaughan of Belfast, teacher of
| the West Brooks school, has been very sick
| and the school is closed waiting for her re-
covery. Appendicitis is feared.
| And now it is beginning to seem like real
| early summer weather The farmers are
getting at their planting in earnest and
every item of help that can be obtained will
be employed from now out.
| Next Sunday is Memorial Sunday and
| Rev. Wm Vaughan will deliver Memorial
sermon. Geo. g. Davis Post will be in at
| tendance, the church will be appropriately
decorated and the attendance will be large.
| Memorial Day will be observed here in
accordance with our usual custom. The
Brooks Cornet Band will be in attendance,
| the stores will be closed i'll the afternoon
and our citizens generally will properly OBJ
serve the day.
| Ned Ellis got around Tuesday to remove
his portable steam engine from the station
| to his lumber camp on the Wentworth place
! in Knox. The roads are aWfully bad this
| spring and he had ten horses on hand to
| handle the affair.
Tuesday evening, May 10th, Charlie Rob
| erts AID wife held a reception at their
present home, the Capt. j. W. Bennett
| place, which was well attended. The bride
! groom was liberal with refreshments, the
! visitors left appropriate presents, and 1t
was voted to be a pleasant occasion.
/ Chas. f. Peavey has bought the thorough.
! bred stallion "Purist'' OF Edwin Shibes.
/ This is without doubt one of the finest bred
horses in Waldo county. He is also doubt
| less the most valuable truck horse in this
| part of the State, for that is what Mr..
| Peavey uses him for every day. He handles
the light trucking fer the traders and busi-
ness men and this horse does the work.
delegation from Marsh River Lodge of
Masons attended the funeral OF Ell L. west
| in Frankfort last sunday afternoon Mr..
| West was a member of this lodge and fire.
quently attended the meetings, especially
in past years. The funeral services of the
Order were performed at the grave under
the direction of W. NJ, Everett Tasker, and
| District Deputy, w. S. Jones. The bearers
were Edwin jenkins, Noah c. Sargent, M.
j. Dow and r. E. Page.
Friday and Saturday, May 18th and 10Th,
will long be remembered as the dates of the
worst electrical disturb Dances and the most
damage from lightning that we have had in
recent years. Friday about midnight the
buildings of A. B. Payson were struck and
burned to the ground. Leslie Wilcox with
| his wife and four children were in the house
and all were badly shocked and stunned.
When Mr.. Wilcox recovered he started out
to investigate and got out his family and
with the aid of neighbors got out his furnl-
ture and most of his provisions. Mr.. Pay
son, who is the carrier on X. +. u. NO l,
and who lives in the village, had furniture,
bedding, clothing, etc, to quite an amount
stored up stairs and lost it all. The stand
was the well known Almon S. Forbes place
in West Brooks, and was one OF the best IN
this vicinity, having been kept painted and
in nice repair. The house, l., shed and car
riage house were connected and all were
burned, with years supply OF dry wood
and the numberess articles that accumu-
late about farm buildings. The barn did
not burn. The loss was about s., 600; in
sured for $1,000 The next day Mr.. Pay
son stopped at the place Of John Bailey in
Monroe on his route and during the shower
the barn of Mr.. Bailey was struck within
ten feet of where Payson's horse was hitch
ed The animal was not injured, however,
and the building was not set on fire. The
house of Fred Moulton, one mile north OF
the village, was struck Saturday afternoon
and the family badly shocked. The barn
struck and some sheep were killed in the
pasture half mile back of the barn. In
Jackso some four miles from the village,
barn was struck and nice pair OF
steers and a heifer were killed. In fact,
there are numerous places in this vicinity
where the lightning hit 1t was one of the
most destructive storms for years in this
vicinity, yet neither shower lasted an hour.
The people feel thankful that no lives were
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