The Republican journal., 1908-09-03
TIE NEWS OF BROOKS.

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Mr.. E. Cunningham and wife of Swan
Vile visited grandpa McTaggart last Sun
day.
Miss Luna Forbes and Richard Hikey re-
| turned to Boston on Saturday evenings
boat.
Alphi Boulter, who built a new house
| last season, had it nicely painted last
spring.
David Curtis of Monroe has been doing
substitute work for Hale Rose on his X. f.
d. route.
John W. Hobbs has put up nice large
| horse shed back of his store for the con-
venience of his patrons.
Chas Rider and Will Emmons have each
| done good job in grading about their new
| houses on EmmOns street.
| Mrs. E. D. Bessey and Charles Dow
Bessey visited grandpa Bessey at his pres
ent home in Knox last week.
Chas H. Forbes, " no has one of the very
incest set of farm buildings in town, has
treated them to coat of paint.
Miss Dorcus Davis has returned from the
| D. W. Mansur farm, where she spent the
| summer, and will again take up her school
work here.
Mrs. Locke, the Bangor nurse, who has
| been in attendance upon Miss Hattie Work,
| will return home this week as her patient
| is cOnvaeScent.
| Misses Florence and Iva, daughters of
| Frank Hogan of Thorndike, visited their
aunt, Mrs. WILDER Barker last week, driv-
| ing over with their team
Mrs. Susan F. Lord is in Vassalboro this
week, the guest of her husbands brothers,
viii and Albert Lord. While there she
will visit the Waterville fair.
Mrs. Chas. S. Anterior of Lowell, Mass,
with her three children, has been visiting
! her sister, Mrs. Albert Roberts, and other
friends and relatives in town.
Mrs. Herbert Cobb of West Medford,
Mass, and her two daughters have spent
several weeks with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. o. Stantial, in West Brooks.
DR.. N. r. Cook returned last week from
Portland, where he went with Leon Illus
sew, who has had an operation for appen-
dicjtis performed at the Maine General hos
pital.
| Frank B. Simpson, who has doubled the
| size of his blacksmith shop by an addition,
now has shop of good capacity and he and
| Hugh Gordon are doing a rushing business
there.
Mr. and Mrs. Judkins of Newport, with
their daughter and her children, Tom and
| Beulah, of this place. took trip to North
port in their automobile last week and Will
spend several days there
The new store of Mrs. Hattie Jenkins is
ND and covered. Her son Earle, who grad
uated from the Good Will school, is doing a
GOOD lob. He intends to start out for HIM
self as contractor and builder.
TT Huxford has had the Brown build
inc now used by C. A. Lane for the post
office. repaired and put into good condition
The large room is ceiled with matched hard
nine and is light and convenient.
w. H. Rolfe is full of business now at the
canning factory. Expert help has arrived
and corn began to come in last Monday
The frost of last week seized some tender
plants in the valleys, but the corn was un-
hurt.
Mrs. S. A. Mansur of Monroe was in
Brooks and attended the Friends meeting
last Sunday She is here as the guest of
her friend Miss Mary Davis, or as we used
to call her in the select school in Belfast,
Mamie Davis.
Why brag on the hen alone as an egg pro-
ducer? Mrs l.. A. Bachelor has two
ducks that have laid. over $50 eggs since
January list and are still on their job. The
eggs are very large and are valuable for
cooking purposes.
Claude and Zilpha Bessey of Thorndike
visited Mrs. E. ID. Bessey and Master Chas.
d.. their cousin, of this village, last week.
They have a nice team that is perfectly
safe for them to use and take much pride
and comfort with 1T.
Everybody in this vicinity knows the val
uable Dair Of team horses which ChaS F.
| Ressey has kept in this vicinity for years,
the stallion, Prince and the mare Strip.
Both of them died this summer. Prince
was % years old and has left many vaiua-
BILE colts in Waldo county.
We all very much regret the death of
Miss Georgia Wentworth, which occurred
at the Daniel Wentworth homestead IN
Knox last week. Of fine personal appear
ance, of an ambitious temperament, ana OF
an honest and lovely character, she was
loved and admired by all with whom she
| was associated.
The Friends Chapel was crowded last
Sunday morning to listen to the ReV. haiph
Gillum, the evangelist from Massachusetts,
who for the second season . mas sum sunn'eI 10
in the Geo. Lang cottage in this town. he
is a convincing and able speaker ana the
unusually large audience was well repaid
for attending the services.
E.A. Carpenter, who recently bought the
Joseph Bowen homestead. has had !he
buildings repaired and painted, much i'm
proving their looks. He also bought the
land north of the road belonging TO Inc
place and has cleared off lot of stumps
and big stones, using dynamite to break
them up.
The schools all opened for the fall term
last Monday morning with the following
teachers Principal Of High school. John
r Burton. Colby 'os; assistant, Miss aSo Ger T.
trude Peavey, who has been teacher In
the schools Of New York; West BROOKS,
Miss Edith Barker; South Brooks, Mrs
Vesta Varney; Village primary, Miss
Mabel Rose.
Brooks lodge of Good Templars, which has
had a vacation during the summer, will
open again for business next Saturday
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