The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-05-09
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Ira W. Bowden is at work in his shop
again.
Mrs. H. L. Peavey is visiting friends in
Massachusetts.
Gabriel Brown has moved into the Mrs.
Seavey house.
Potatoes are being brought in quite free
ly. The local price is so cents.
Mrs. w. S. Reynolds was down town last
Tuesday for the first time since the death OF
her husband.
Mrs. Estes is making her regular visits &c
Thorrdike, where she has developed good
millinery trade.
house for VIM. n Crosby, is now with Mrs.
Isaac feathers
Lawrence Edwards, who is engineer on a
locomotive in Massachusetts,, is visiting
friends in Brooks.
a. E. Chase is having cupola put onto
his barn, which will be one of the largest
and incest in town.
Hale Rose began his work May list as
carrier on the R. F. d. route No. 4 in place
OF Wendell s. Reynolds, deceased.
Miss Ina B. Thompson, who is with Mrs
Dow as milliner, spent Tuesday in Bel
fast and inspected the Belfast millinery.
H. II. Pilley, whose health has been
rather poor the past year or two, manages
to get around to his place of business every
day.
Mrs Dow and her mlliner, Miss Ina B,
Thompson, are now busy in their millinery
rooms and will be rushed with work to the
Both inst.
Frank Fogg, who has been in Massachu.
sets for the last year, is at home for the
season and proposes to conduct the business
Of his farm himself this year.
Geo. B. Roberts has been spending a few
days in Brooks. He has business in Boston
and is here looking after his real estate as
well as visiting his old home.
The subject of Rev. J. W. Vaughan's lee
ture next Sunday evening will be ''The
lectures interesting, and it is worth while
to attend.
The body of Mrs. Walter L. burlington,
and who recently died in West Bridgewater,
Mass, was brought here for burial last
Tuesday.
tainment will be given by the pupils of the
High and Grammar schools. There are to
be prize declarations, readings, etc., and
fine time is expected.
Golden Crown lodge, K. of P, is having
some special work in comforting the ranks.
Tuesday evening, April Both, they conferred
the second rank and had BANQUET. Visit
ors were present from Belfast.
John II. Gordon has been improving his
clothing plant and has invested several
hundred dollars in new machinery. His
greatest trouble is to get help. He could
give employment to quite a number more
than he now has.
Remember that the High school enter
tainment is all to be given Friday evening,
and it is expected that there will be meet
evening as usual, The original plans were
necessarily changed. A fine time is ex-
pected.
1t is expected that several of our people
will attend the High school graduation ex-
ercises in jackson this, Thursday, evening.
Mr. Cowen, the teacher, has become one Of
us in fraternal society way and the young
people of the class are all our acquaintances
1t will without doubt be fine entertain
ment.
Charles E. johnson of the Bangor News
called upon friends here Tuesday. Mr..
Johnson was student at Freedom Academy
nearly IOTby years dSOs huU VIC remember
him as one of the ablest debaters in the
school. His boyhood was passed in Freedom
and he has many acquaintance in Waldo
County.
The funeral of Sarah, wife of Robert
Hanson, was held in the Friends chapel
Bracket oficiating. They had been
married SO years and had always lived in
this vicinity. Their only daughter is the
wife of M. S. Stiles, Esq, of Jackson.
Miss Hafford, the Friend evangelist who
has been laboring here for some weeks, has
gone to New Hampshire and is replaced by
Mrs. Winslow, prominent speaker of the
Society," A Sunday school has been Organiz-
ed and meetings are held regularly every
Sunday morning in the Friends chapel.
c. E. Lane is again apparently in good
health and is after business with his old
time vigor. He got out his team Monday
for the springs work and sent it up to the
Snow place, It is quite q team for one