The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-12-05
The NEWS OF BROOKS.

Frank Lane is at work in the store Of j.
W. Hobbs as clerk.
Miss Hattie Cilley recently visited the
family of Prince E. Luce in Waldo.
Miss Edith Crockett of Winterport is at
work for John W. Hobbs as bookkeeper.
Miss Lewis supplied for Rev. j. W.
Vaughan at the Union church last Sunday
evening.
Mrs. F. f. Adams of Newport and her
daughter have been the guests of Mrs N.
R. Cook.
Mine host of the York Hotel has been
giving his patrons yenlson for the past two
weeks.
Otis W. Lane has speciality in pure bred
Orping chickens, which he thinks very
much of.
The village schools opened last Monday
for the winter term with the same teachers
as before.
See advt of jewery, etc, sale at the hotel
Dec. 10th, 18th and 18th, by Mrs. w. M.
Thayer of Belfast.
A. B. Huff has his new stable up and
nearly covered. 1t will be great improve
ment to his place.
E. C. Body, who has been at work on the
Somerset r. R. as a carpenter, is now at
| home Tor the winter.
Gibbs and Webb have now over two
thousand chickens of their own raising at
| their poultry farm in Jackson.
Mrs. Lindley Bailey of birmingham,
Mass, has been visiting her mother, Mrs.
|. G. Reynolds Of this village.
Mrs Eliza Campbell, who is one of our
smartest old ladies, is spending the winter
with her niece, Mrs. T. l. Huxford.
Frank Fogg went to Boston last week,
where he has a position as caretaker for
one of the business men of the city.
Ernest Jacobs is in town visiting bis
mother, Mrs w. F. Jacobs. He is making
the theatrical business his profession.
Chas. Goodwin OF Portland has been
spending a vacation at the York hotel,
| where the attraction to him is irresistible
Misses Bess and Edna Thompson, who
for the past two years have been in Wash
ington county in the vicinity of Machias,
are now at home, the guests of their mother,
Mrs. Frank Thompson.
Mrs. Matilda Deering of Jackson, who
has been i'll for some weeks, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Grant, last
week. Mrs. c. A. Lane, who is also her
daughter, was in attendance upon her
mother during the most of her last sick
ness.
The snow that came Sunday night made
quite show here and few teams came in
on runners, but nearly every one stuck to
wheels. Just little more snow would
make nice sleighing-and the farmers are
hauling their wood across the grass fields
all right now.
Frank Fogg has bought of T. l. Huxford
the trotter King Dodo, by Nelson's Wilkes,
dam by old Nelson. This horse, which is
seven years old, became lame while in train
ing by Mr.. Burrill in Bangor and was sent
back home. He was turned out to pasture
and has come around all right lie is a
PAGER and can show fast gait.
Roscoe E. Weber has been saving wood
with his gasolene power saw for l.. A.
Bachelor. 1t seems to run easier than the
old buck saw used to do when the writer
was boy and worked up the family wood
pile. Without machinery now the farmer
could not possibly keep his work along.
There are evidently some sneak thieves in
this vicinity. A new harness was taken
from one barn and a good horse blanket
from another in West Brooks recently.
They should be given the same dose that
Douglass got. For many years the same
thing has happened periodically in that vi
cinity, but it is seldom that one of the Gull
prits is brought to justice.