The Republican journal., 1909-11-18
The News of Brooks.

The News of Brooks.
Hester Rose is attending Freedom Academy
Miss Evelyn Thompson is in Belfast this
week visiting friends.
Miss Annie Thompson of Unity visited
friends in town last week.
L. A. Bachelor has done some clapboarding
and painting on his woodshed.
Mrs. Cora Bowker and son were in Brooks
Sunday and attended church services.
; Will Page has hired the Margaret Hall place
for one year and moved there last week.
! There will be special entertainment at the
Good Iemplar lodge next Saturday evening
The hay crop was light in this vicinity and
| the farmers will have to be provident of their
; feed.
! Mrs. Hattie Rowe recently returned from a
lew weeks spent with her friend Mrs. Gilmore
| at Monroe Center
| Miss Ada Body has closed her fall term of
school and is now with her parents, Hon. and
! Mrs. John Body.
{ Mrs. Will Hall and her daughter, Mrs. Fol-
I; som, are at the Walter Gibbs place for time;
perhaps for the winter.
| William Gould has been in poor health for
| some weeks but has been able to attend to his
business until recently.
! Hale Rose has taken down the old Eben
| Page house and will use the lumber for build
/, ing purposes elsewhere.
| M. J. Dow has materially added this week to
his stock of outings, WOO! fannels, f1annelettes
and warm goods generally.
| Mrs. Fanny Twombly, the we'll known ma
| tie. nifty nurse, is to spend the winter with her
| father, Lieut.. VIM. N Crosby.
| Herbert Ham, son of Howard Ham, now of
Fairfield but former resident of Brooks, is
with the Chase & Varney Co.
| Mrs. Cynthia Springer, who spent the sum-
mer at her old home in Columbia, is back here
with her daughter, Mrs Frank Thompson.
Stanley Perkins and Bert Wentworth are
packing apples for Mr.. Whitney of Newburgh
They report the crop to be of good quality.
Miss Loie Jacobs who spent last summer at
| Old Orchard and later went to Boston, is now
spending few weeks with her mother here.
H. L. Slower, who has employment in Unity
! this season, spent last Sunday at his home here
and attended services at the Friends Chapel.
i Joseph G. Simpson has enlarged and materi-
| ally improved his stable, much to his conven-
! fence, as they have several horses to care for.
Charles Huxford spent last Sunday in
Brooks with his cousin Thaddeus. He was on
his way to Auburn to look after his canning
factory there
L. A. Bachelor met with a mishap coming
from the grange last Monday evening. His
team collided with another in the darkness and
he was obliged to procure new outfit to
reach home.
Mrs. Charles L. Austin, Mrs. W. C. Austin
Messrs. Will Swift, Fred Moulton, Rev. Mr..
Chalcroft and others returned last Monday
morning from the Friends Monthly Meeting
in China.
The Peavey Brothers have built a new fiume
to the A. ]. Roberts mill and are making
an addition of 16 feet to the east end of the
mill, which is to be used as single mill R.
A. Hall is doing the work, with plenty of help
Sidney Tibbetts, who has had employment ir
Stockholm for the past season, has returned
home with his family and thinks of buying {
| farm in this vicinity. He understands farming
and we hope he will remain with US.
Friday evening, November 10Th, the young
people of the village will have an entertain
ment at Union Hall. There will be farce by
the High school and exercises by the gramma,
, school. Tasker's orchestra will be in attend
ance and there will be social at the close.
Little Ruth Ames is still confined to the
, house, unable to walk even to move hel
, limbs, the result of spinal trouble. She was
one of the brightest and most active little
girls of this place and it seems pity for hel
to be left in this way. Of course we hope fol
her recovery.
. The young people of the Congregations
Sunday school had a very pleasant time at the
church parlors Wednesday, November 10th
They had contest to bring in members, with
Hugh Morrill, and Edith Hobbs as captains and
the losing side furnished pastry lunch, after
which games and sociability was enjoyed. The
school is prospering greatly at present.
: Thew are slowly but surely settling into this
part O.: Maine from Aroostook county. This
onto the Thomas Bachelor place in Jackson,
which he has bought. The value of good
farms in handy location is the upiift in
Waldo county. More than that. the experience
of our own farmers has proved to us that the
same thing that has been done in Aroostook
county can be done here and they are going to
work for themselves, which is the thing to do.
They are beginning to appreciate the oppor-
tunities.
Mrs c. D. Davis, who for many years has
looked after the business end OF their extensive
poultry business, is in quite poor health at
present, her eyes especially having failed her
SO that it interferes with her work OF exam
lining the quantities of eggs they buy and the
bookkeeping and writing part of the business.
She is still after the business every day, how
ever, and will continue to do SO while she lasts.
For some years they did the largest business
of any one in the county in their specially,
keeping over thousand hens and buying
large quantities of eggs and poultry which
they shipped to regular customers in restau-
rants and hotels in Boston and elsewhere.
Their account with the City National Bank of
Belfast has been several thousand dollars a
year 1t would be great blow to Mrs. Davis
to have to give up the work, for she is a bus
mess woman.
i C1LLEY-SARGENT George G. Cilley, pros
porous young milk dealer of Portland, and Miss