The Republican journal., 1907-10-31
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

| Mrs. R. A. Hall has presented he
spouse with a bouncing boy.
| Frank r. Daggett and wife hav,
gone to California for the winter.
Mrs. A. R. Pilley and daughter Louis,
are in Monroe this week visiting friends
DIR. Hopkins of Searsport spent da,
with his friend, 1. S. Staples, this week
John jenkins has moved from the
Berry Sargent house into the Miller
| rent.
Mrs. E. L. Talbot of Belfast spent
the day Thursday with Mrs. E. G. Rob
erts.
Mrs. C. W. Lord has returned from a
months visit with friends in Massachu-
sets.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Mckinney of Wis
| casset are visiting Rev. and Mrs. David
Bracket.
Mrs. Robert Kelley and son of Port
land have been visiting the family of
Daniel Mason.
L. A. Staples, our popular harness
maker, is away for two weeks yaca-
ton IN the woods.
Charles Jenkins has moved from
South Monroe into Mrs. Belle Boody's
rent in our village.
Mrs. G. H. Forbes has gone to Bos-
ton to visit her sister, Mrs. Augustine
Thompson, who is sick.
James McTaggart left Monday to
take position as foreman of a section
on the Somerset extension near KineO.
Miss Marie Chase has entered Colby
College, Waterville. She prepared at
the fitting school there and took high
rank.
Mrs F. R. York has gone on trip that
will include Portland, Boston and New
York, where she will visit friends and
get points in the dressmaking line.
Mrs. c. S. Bracket and daughter
Kate will spend the winter with Mrs.
A. E. Chase. They have sold their
place in Newport and Mr.. Bracket is
now in business in Boston.
W. E. Barker has had his stable new
ly shingled, clapboarded, new doors
and windows and thoroughly repaired,
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farm buildings in town.
I. |. Huxford is loading his fourth
car of canning apples this week. This
is good time for the farmers to dis
pose of their poor stock, as anything
two inches through is accepted.
Rev. and Mrs. David Bracket return
ed last week from a two weeks visit
| to their old charge at Woolwich and
Wiscasset. They attended the Mont
vile quarterly meeting on the trip.
Rents are still very scarce here.
Every week some one makes an unSuc-
cessful search for spare home. There
is plenty of work, and with good cheap
rents people would continue to come
into the village.
| L. A. Bachelor believes that stock
will pay in the long run. He began
| farming two years ago with horse
and COW and now has twenty head of
cattle and horses at his place, which he
intends to make frst-class dairy
| farm.
Miss Lizzie NJ. Hasty is visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hasty. She
| is graduate of Shaw's business college
and has a position in Eastport with
Scott P. Bradish, where she has been
six years as bookkeeper, stenographer
and typewriter
| While shutting down the gasolene
engine in his factory Thursday noon
| J. H. Gordon was caught by his coat in
| the governor and came very near re-
ceiving serious injuries. AS it was he
was severely shaken up by being re-
volved about several times and SO
wound up that it took two men some
time to extricate him from his perilous
position.
The Good Templars and their friends
| had fine time last Friday evening
The supper was nice and large mum.
Der of citizens partook of it. 1t was
served from to p. M, and Mrs. H.
l.. Peavey kindly furnished selections
from her photograph during that time.
She has large number of records and
it added much to the pleasure of the
occasion. After supper everybody re-
paired to the hall, where an old time
social was enjoyed. E. C. Tasker, Ned
Edwards and May Huxford composed
an orchestra that furnished fine music
and the young people went home happy.
Trial Catarrh treatments are being mailed
out free, on request, by DR.. Shoop. Racine,
! Wis. These tests are proving to the people
without penny's cost-the great value OF
this scientific prescription known to drug
gists everywhere as DR.. Shops Catarrh
| Remedy. Sold by j. H. Montgomery, Sears
port. R. II. Moody, Belfast.
"What little boy can tell me the diff
ference between the quick and the
'dead'?" asked the Sunday.school teach
er.
Willie waved his hand frantically.
"Well, Willie?"
please, ma'am, the quick are the
cnes that get out of the way of auto
mobiles; the ones that don't are the
dead "-Everybody's Magazine.