The Republican journal., 1907-11-14
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

This is examination week at the High
school.
Ella McTaggart has moved into the James
McTaggart house.
w. B. Ferguson of Dixmont is to spend
the winter with VIM. E. Rowe.
! The stork has visited the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Riley Prime and left fine baby.
Oscar Farwell, the veteran Thorndike
merchant, called upon friends here last
Monday.
Mrs. Frank York has been i'll in Portland
at the home Of her daughter, Mrs. Alfred
| Huxford.
| Eliab S. Stevens has what seems to be a
pipe cancer on his lip and has had painful
time with it.
Mrs. Ida Lane drove over to Jackson
last Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs. Free
man Grant.
Mrs. S. P. Judkins and Mrs. Ellis Jones
of Newport visited Mrs. N. r. Cook of this
place last week.
Jennie, daughter of Edwin Long, who
spent the summer in Waterville, is visiting
friends in town.
Mrs. Geo. II. johnson has returned from
visit with friends in Readfield and other
towns in Kennebec county.
Almon S. Forbes, the Brooks nonoge-
marian, goes to Waterbury this week to
spend the winter with his daughter Cora.
Miss Josephine McTaggart, who has lived
with her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ansel
Pettengill, has gone to Forsythe to live with
her father.
Mr.. Whitney of Newburg has shipped
several carloads of apples from BrOokS-in
fact, he has made Brooks his Headquarters
for several weeks.
Mrs. Rose l. Forbes has returned from
Haverhill, Mass, where her sister Flora
has been i'll at the home of their sister, Mrs.
James Bushfield.
The Pythian Sisterhood are having
special meetings and are rehearsing their
rituaIistic work, as they have number of
candidates on the string.
The owners of the Gibbs hay press which
was burned in the Manley Ellis barn re-
Gently have bought a new press and have
begun work on the Gibbs Hill.
Marion Reynolds has returned from
Unity, where she had been with her sister
Helen, wife of Eli Moulton, and where they
have a nice baby few weeks old
James McTaggart, Jr., has position as
section boss on the Somerset extension at
Forsythe near lake Moxie. His family
went out to meet him there last week.
The High school seniors are to have
ball Nov. 9th, with music by Tasker's
orchestra Union hall will doubtless pre-
sent gay appearance upon that OCCASION
A delegation from the Friends Church of
this place went to China last Friday, re-
turning Monday. Among them were Mrs.
Winslow, Mrs. Will Swift, Mrs. Fred
Moulton and Mrs. B. F. Stantial.
Hon. Bert NJ Fernald called upon friends
here last week in the interest of his canvass
of the State for the position of Governor.
The Indications are that he has captured
the town. He had but short time to spend
here, but made friend of every man he
met.
Almon S. Forbes returned Saturday from
a visit with his granddaughter, Mrs. Chas.
d. Wentworth, in Freedom, where he had
been for the past two weeks. Mr.. Forbes
is still in good health and interested in cur
rent events although he is the oldest man in
Brooks.
Chas Files, our station agent, has bought
the residence of the late R. G. Edwards for
a home. 1t is a nice establishment, which
Mr.. Edwards personally built for himself
and family, and will be an ideal home for
Mr.. Files and family. Mr.. Files takes pos
session this week.