The Republican journal., 1909-04-22
The News of Brooks.

Miss Hattie Ciley is with Mrs. Charles Ian,
at present.
Mrs. Chas Goodwin went to Portland last
Monday for a few weeks stay.
Miss Josie Knowlton of Unity is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs E. r. Knowlton.
We received a call last week from our old
friend H. F. Maddocks of the Waterville Senti
mel.
Rev. David Bracket has his house up and
cupancy this season.
Mrs. Minnie Reynolds is in Somervile, Mass
with her friends, Fred Emery and wife, who
spend their summers in Brooks
is. Staples & Son are putting out the usual
number of wagons this season. In spite Of the
mud the seasons sales have begun.
Ephraim johnson is at home from Massachu-
sets, where he went for his household goods
as he is to make his home in this village.
The frost is coming out and the usual bad
places are found in the roads at West Brooks. E.
o. Stantial, the commissioner, is having quite
job on the Sprout Hill road
Miss Jennie Reynolds of Portland sang at
the Congregational church last Sunday after
noon She has been at the special meetings
held at the Friends chapel for the past week.
very pleasant occasion was party recent
ly given by Frank Lane, our assistant post
master, in honor of the birthday of his wife,
known in the Belfast High school as Miss Eva
Grady. Games were INDUCED in, nice treat
was served, and everybody was made happy.
1t is getting busy on the site of the last sea-
sons burned district. The foundations are
being placed for two large buildings. F. H.
Brown is laying the foundation for his new
house, which Mr.. Emmons will build this sea-
son. |. S. Staples is to build new house near
his carriage shop. There is really to be quite
lot of building done in the village this season.
Some of the members of the Grange came
into the Good Templar Lodge and played "Dr
Cureall" last Saturday evening. The remainder
of the program was by the lodge members and
was as follows: music by orchestra, Hobrook,
Frost Lane and Forbes; song, Donald Forbes;
song, Christine Jones; farce DR.. Curesll; music
by orchestral song and encore, Chas Goodwin;
song, Donald Forbes; music by orchestra
W. H. Rolfe started for Nova Scotia last
week on business trip, and an old friend said
to him on starting; Here's wishing you a safe
trip On reaching Burnham he sent postal
saying, Safe to here; at Vim he posted an
other saying, Still safe; in the dreariest por-
ton of New Brunswick he sent pictorial mis-
sive saying, '1m stuck on this place; and
from the brick -colored mud-stained city of St.
John came postal card representing person
in the hands of policeman, with the words,
'In safe hands" Well, here's hoping he will
keep safe.
In the last issue of the Turf, Farm and Home
we read an item that made US sit up and take
notice. In effect it said that Mr. Charles Fogg
of Boston had leased the A. 3. Payson farm in
Brooks for this season, with option Of pur
chase, and that his nephew, David Fogg of
Brooks, who is to have charge of the farm,
will, among other business, plant 270 acres of
potatoes. Now for years as a newspaper cor
respondent we have doomed this town to the
limit feeling that its citizens and its oppor-
tunities We're worthy of public notice. Then.
too, Mr.. Chas. Fogg was a schoolmate of ours
in those always to be remembered days when
we went barefooted to school in summer and
Wore the handmade cowhide top boots in win
ter; when our clothing manufactured by
our industrious mothers from the wool obtain
ed from the sheep raised on farms. We
can remember that he generally came out
ahead in most of our boysh trades and are not
surprised that while we have vegetated in this
same old town he has cleaned up competence
of some thousands obtained by legitimate bust
ness in Boston, and has come back to Brooks to
spend the remainder of his life in comfort,
while the rest of his class yet living obliged
to hustle for the elusive dollar We have al
ways had reasonable respect for his ability,
but now we are reused to admiration. Has our
old friend turned magician? Here on the A.
B. Payson farm, known to US as the Almon S.
Forbes homestead, as familiar to us as our old
COW pasture, and which contains little less
than one hundred acres, and on it this year is
to be planted 270 acres of potatoes. The cipher
may be superfuous but that is how it reads.
our old friend Charley and the good old town
of Brookst The wished for boom is on, sure
enough. If our other farms can be expanded
in the same ratio, and we can get trusted for
the fertilizer, we shall be able to cart our pota
toes to the station in au tomobiles next fall.
FRANKFORT.
The operetta "a Merry Company" given by
the scholars of the public schools under the
management of Mrs. Mae Keen Stackpole of
Prospect, was well attended and pronounced by