The Republican journal., 1910-11-24
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The News of Brooks.

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Charles E. Lane went to Aroostook Monday
on business.
Deer hunters are numerous in this vicinity,
indications that game is in evidence.
Mr.. Albert Cilley, who is about eighty years
of age, was thrown from his wagon last week
and severely injured. At last accounts he was
improving.
Mrs. Hattie Robinson of Monroe has bought
the David Bracket place in this village. We
understand that Mr. Bracket will reside there
this winter.
Mrs Walter H. Young has been confined to
the house for several weeks by sickness but is
now about again, though still showing the Ell
fects of her illness.
There were no services at the Congregational
church last Sunday, but the Sunday school was
held as usual. Rev. David Bracket is to sup
ply at the Friends chapel for a time
Charles Gibbs, who for some years has driv-
en- meat cart into this village, has been Ill
with appendicitis and it was thought he would
need surgical aid, but last Monday he was back
again on his route.
Mrs. Annie Ryder is at home from the hos
pital for the fourth time, as we remember 1t.
This time they performed no operation but
she is very sick woman yet and her friends
sympathize with her in her severe affection.
At the Good Templars lodge last Saturday
evening there was an abundant treat OF con-
fectionery. Next Saturday evening they Will
have pastry lunch, with coffee. The meetings
now are very pleasant and social and 1t Is
worth while to attend.
1t is said that Fred H. Brown of jackson Is to
move to this village if he can make satlsfac-
tory deal for property which he wishes to ouy
here Mr.. Brown and family are people VINO
are valuable addition to any place and we
give them cordial welcome.
HusK1NG BEES. Frank H. Quimby is deacon
on corn in Brooks this year. From one ana
one half acres he raised 1865 bushel baskets
full of corn. He sent IL ears Of corn to the
corn exposition in Worcester, Mass, that
measured IL feet in all, and handsome corn 1t
was. Last Friday evening he had an old 1ash-
toned husking bee. Some two hundred were
in attendance and Mrs. Quimby had the ira
ditional husking supper, with plenty for all
1t would have done you good to see such toii
hardened farmers A. E. kilgore, Triton
Elliott, w Jones and others who are SO closely
engaged in their farm duties that they have
not attended such a gathering for years,
straighten out their hard worn anatomy ana
get outside of that supper built just as mother
used to do it. 1t might be well to state that
our former neighbors, John Jenkins and wife,
also recently had husking party at their farm
home in Monroe, where all the frills and festi-
vities of those usually exuberant occasions
were in evidence, and where the supper was
something to be long remembered.
A POTATO HOUSE. 1t is rumored that we may
really have the long wished for potato house
here by q combination of some OF our own
business men. The great need OF one has been
shown in the past few weeks. Farmers have
come in from miles away with big loads of
potatoes and sold them for what they could
get, as they had place for them at home'
and there is no chance to store them mere.
The great need is for storehouse where the
farmer can store his potatoes for time, thus
being able to haul them in whenever they can
spare the team, and sell at the time when they
will bring fair price. Then, too, we want a
starch factory There is territory for ten or
fifteen miles back of this village that Is as
good potato land as lies out doors and Brooks
is the natural outlet for them. Our business
men should awake to the possibilities of the
situation and outside capital should be brought
in for a profitable investment. The other day
we made business trip up among the hills of
Dixmont and there, where the land is tipped
I'D sidewise to an extent that we might think
would prevent the use of machinery, we found
that acres of potatoes were planted and large
crops are raised and we recognized big teams
there which are as familiar on our streets as
those of our own village. They haul big loads
of produce in and then take big loads of feed
and fertilizer back. 1t is the heavy trade that
needs to be monopolized here now. That is
the place where the money lies.
A REAL ROMANCE. And now Brooks has
romance. A real genuine article that puts into
the shade all the manufactured illusions of
the pipe dreamers who laboriously fill up the
space Of the magazines. Yes, it is truly,
truly story in the plain details, and you must
not for q moment think that we are stretching
our Imagination in an effort to work in the
frills and embroideries for magic lantern eff
feet. No! no, indeed 1t is something like
this: Our old friend and neighbor Albert Hall,
as has been told in the columns of The Jour-
nal, recently came back for brief visit in
| Brooks, the town where he was born some fifty
/ offar an nhSaDco of thirfu
years, much of which time we had no informa-
| ton concerning him and did not know whether