The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-10-31
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Mrs. Harry Merritt has returned to Bos-
ton.
Mrs. II. Il. Seavey has gone to Auburn to
live with her daughter Abbie.
| Golden Crown lodge, K. of P, are to have
a dance and supper Christmas eve.
The officers of the Good Templar Lodge
are to be installed next Saturday evening.
Mrs. A. B. Stantial of Belfast has been
| visiting her sister, Mrs. Eva Gould, and
other friends in town.
| Hugh Gordon, the blacksmith, has picked
| up his tools and left town. He is one of
the very best of horse shoers.
Mrs. Harry White and sister, Gertrude
| White of Dixmont, made social and bust
ness visit to Brooks last week.
Mrs. John Thompson, formerly of Brooks,
| died in SearSmont last week. George
| Thompson of this town is her son.
| Mrs. Winslow is still with her friend Mrs
Phebe Reynolds and is working zealously
as an evangelist under the auspices of the
Friends society.
| The Gould sisters, who spent the summer
| at the old homestead in Jackson, have re-
turned to their dreSSmaking establishment
in Lowell, Mass.
! L. A. Bachelor has litter of pigs which
| he thinks is at least as good as the average.
| One of them at the age of seven weeks tip
| ped the scale at 35 lbs.
Where the next Mrs. Staples may be is
| mystery to US, but Leander looks wise when
the boarderS at the hotel josh him and takes
! his meals in calm contentment.
Walter Bradford of Massachusetts, some
where, is in Brooks, where he comes every
| autumn and goes out to get a deer or two,
| He is at Charles ROWon'S nSual
The cold weather came early and lots of
| produce was frozen. 1t was simply i'm
! possible with the help available for the
| farmers to get their stuff harvested in sea-
| son.
Brooks was represented at the teachers
convention in Bangor by Mr.. Woods and
Miss Evans of the High school. Miss Saw
| yer of the intermediate and Miss Rose of
the primary.
Everett Felker, our new land surveyor,
is having considerable business in his line
| He is close student, a young man of
ability, and can without doubt fill the posi-
ton acceptably.
| Business is good at the telephone central
and we do not see how we ever got along
| without it. Josie Brown is one of the yery
promptest and best hello girls in the county
and we are lucky to have her.
MIS-. ". n. nolIe represented Happy
! Valley Chapter, Q. of E. S., at the school of
, instruction in Waterville last Thursday
| She had a delightful time and highly
values the instruction received.
Mrs. Holbrook is still in Aroostook and
| E. c. manages to get along with a hired
| girl. Mrs. Dow is still in Ohio and NJ j..
deals out millinery and ladies fnery with a
preoccupied and mOurnful air. Mrs. York
/ is in Portland but Frank is giving his guests
the best of attention in the same old way.
John Abbott, the village barber, did not
! make an appearance last Saturday and
there were a lot of rough looking faces in
town town sunday; While some unprintable
ly inclined to excuse him as they knew he
was having desperate struggle to harvest
his ten acre field of potatoes. And then,
you know, he is a fine barber and is general
ly ready for business at the regular hours.