The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-08-26
The News Of Brooks.

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or two.
James Jewell is at work in Dixnlont as a
house carpenter.
Mrs. c. o. varney has been under treatment
for her eyes in Portland.
Mrs. Sanford Bachelor went to Bangor last
Monday to visit her sister.
Henry Cunningham will get into his new
blacksmith shop this week. ..
Miss Issie Bartlett of Dixmont is visiting
the family of Geo. Bartlett.
Sarah J. Cole of Thorndike has been visiting
her brother, Charles E. Lane.
R. A. Hall went to Fairfield last SATURDAY. to
assist his brothers on house they are building
Mrs. M R. Bryant of Lowell, Mass, lis visiting
her sister, Mrs. James Dow, at the Holbrook
farm.
Miss Lila Estes, graduate of the Waterviile
Business College, has been visiting friends in
Unity.
Judge D. K Drake of Frankfort was in
town last week visiting his daughter, Mrs.
George Hasty.
Pearl and Percy Austin of China are visit
ing the family of their cousin, Mr.. VIM. Aus
tin of this village.
Mrs. A. B. Payson drove to Monroe last
Thursday with her friend Flora Tasker and
spent the night there.
Mrs. A. E. Dow and Mrs. L. A. Bachelor
drove to Belfast last Friday for the pleasure of
the trip and enjoyed it very much
We were pleased to receive call last week
from George Varney of Unity, who was here to
attend the Friends monthly meeting.
Hugh Gordon is building house in Brooks.
He has all he can do in the blacksmith shop
and wants place for his family here.
Rev. Frank Jones of China was at South
Brooks last Sunday morning. and also attended
other services in the town during the day.
A large crew has been at work on the State
road and it is expected that this particular
portion of the highway will be much improved.
Mrs Mary Staples spent last week in Dix
mont with her sister, Mrs. Harding known
here as Nettie Jones, and who came back to
Brooks with her for visit.
Rev. Mr.. Fitzgerald has closed his services
at the Friends church and returned to North
Carolina his native State, and will resume his
studies in a theological school.
Miss Jennie Ford, who has been reported as
very ill for some months past, died at the
home of DIR. N. R. Cook last Monday at mid
night. Funeral at Monroe Center.
We were pleased to hear Marston Edwards
Sunday. He is son of Samuel Edwards, who
was born in Brooks and has relatives here.
Mrs. Ira w. Bowdoin, who has style of her
own for the artistic lettering Of signs, notices,
ETC., has been much complimented upon the
work she did for the notices in the big tent.
The Friends monthly meeting was held in
Brooks last Friday with good attendance.
Frank Jones of China, Sarah Cole of Thorndike
and other prominent people of the society
were in attendance
Mrs. Wesley Lane and Mrs. Lois Littlefeld
are visiting friends in town. They are daugh-
tiers of the late Darling Cilley and passed their
girlhood in Brooks. They are now both wild
ows and live in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The friends of Lizzie Hasty, who married
Mr.. Barr of Eastport, where she now resides,
and who has been in the Portland hospital for
surgical treatment, will be glad to know that
she is getting along finely and will soon return
to her home.
The railroad company has refused to build
the siding asked for by our people and Mr..
Huxford will not build the proposed potato
house. This is great disappointment to many
and is distinct hindrance to the advancing
business of the place.
There is a change in the Swan & Sibley Feed
Co., which has long done prosperous business
here. WILDER Barker has become member of
the firm and his own personal business will be
discontinued and he will give his entire atten-
ton to the business of the firm. 1t is UNDER
stood that Mr.. W. o. Estes, who has conducted
the business very acceptably for the firm and
its patrons, will continue to have charge of the
mill
Mrs. Mary Wentworth of Knox, who has
for a time been with her niece, Mrs. Harry
Bradford, of this town, was severely injured
last Saturday by a fall. She is over 70 years of
age and quite deaf and infirn, and in walking
down the steps from the house she fell heavily,
breaking the ligaments of one knee. Doctors
kilgore and Cook were called, but she has sui
fered severely and is in bad condition with
the prospect of becoming helpless physically.
The officers of Golden Crown lodge, K of
P, were publicly installed last Tuesday even
ing by the following G. L. officers: D. G. C. c.,
Stilman D. Flood; G. V. c.. M. ]. Dow; G.
Prelate, VIM. Gordon; G. Nj. of A., Samuel
Hodgkinson. The party, with friends, drove up
from Belfast, returning the same evening
The ladies of the Sisterhood were in attend
ance and coffee, cake and ice cream were serv-
ed. The lodge officers are as follows: P c. c.
VIM. c. Austin; C. c., George W. Miller; " c.,
Herbert Hamlin; K. of R. & s., Ernest Stimp-
son; M. of F., T. l. Huxford M. of E., A. B.
Payson; M. of W., Will Gould; P, P NJ Ewell
M. A.. Chas. E. Lane; l. G., E. C. Holbrook; O.
G., Geo. H. Miller.
Rev. Mr.. Barron Of Quebec arrived in
Brooks last Thursday to assist Rev. Samuel