The Republican journal., 1907-12-19
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.
John Hall Is spending the winter with hi
nephew, r. A. Hall.

John Hall is spending the winter with his
nephew, R. A. Hall.
Mrs. E. A. Talbot of Belfast visited Mrs.
E. G. Roberts for few days last week.
Mrs. James F. Jewell is doing some dress
making and is said to be very good at it.
Mrs. Lena Leavitt Bagley of Troy spent
last week with her friend Mrs. c. E. Lanes
Ned Edwards and mother are now making
their home in the James G. Morse house,
which has been repaired for their occu-
pancy.
Charles Rider, who built nice house on
EmmOns street, has now got nicely settled
and the family is much pleased with their
new home.
Wellington R. Body, well known for
mer resident of Brooks, was recently COM
mitted to the hospital for insane in Augusta.
His family are to return to Brooks.
Mrs. Grace Dow Bachelor has spent a
little time in her fathers store, the ap-
pearance of which she greatly improved in
preparation for the holiday trade.
Wood has been very scarce and hard to
get here so far this winter. What little
was cut last winter is mostly in rough
places, where it needs snow to get it.
Mrs. A. B. Payson is assisting Mr.. Dow
in his store during the holiday rush He
has as usual a good line of holiday goods
and has made preparations for large sales.
Mr.. Boardman has moved from the
Slower place, where he has lived for the
past year, to the other side of the village,
where he can be nearer his work about the
A. E. Chase store.
William c. Austin has bought the Roscoe
A. Jones house in this village and moved
into it, MIR. Austin is one of our popular
R. F. D. men and this will make him a nice
and convenient residence.
The local telephone company is extend
ing its lines in various directions and has
become means of daily convenience to
many homes which would not have thought
such a thing possible few years ago.
c. F. Files and family are now nicely
settled in the K. G. Edwards stand, which
Mr.. Files recently bought. 1t makes very
pleasant and desirable home for them, even
if the boys do joss him about living out in
Knox.
Ansel Pettingill is working for Leander
Staples in his harness shop and they both
find plenty to do. Mr.. Staples has orders
for his halter for halter pulling horses from
all over the country. The latest order was
from California.
The warm weather last week was suf-
fcient to thaw out the snakes in this vicin-
ity. A. B. Huff killed one over two feet
long that was wiggling and lively. This
item is not melted by barbed wire tangle-
foot, as the snake is at the Bowdoin black
smith shop where it can be seen.
What promised to be fire started in the
home of l. S. Staples Dec. 18th. Alarm was
given by the telephone, a crowd gathered
and ladders and buckets were brought out,
but it proved to be only hot chimney
blaze and it was soon over But here is
another warning. The neglect of provi-
sionS for effectually fighting real fire was
only too apparent. Yet men with valuable
buildings are without ladders even. What
of that brave fire brigade that was to be
organized?
Our corn factory did very fair business
last season and much better results are ex-
pected for the next. The company are to
replace all of their old cutting machines
with new style cutters the coming season.
They have tried these new cutters at two
of their factories the past season and find
from actual trial that these new machines
will'remove from an equal number of ears
at least 10 per cent more corn than the old
style cutters. Besides that these new ma
chimes will cut shorter cobs than the old
ones. as they do not clog so easily. This
will be a direct benefit to the farmer.