The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-08-25
The News Of Brooks.


Elvin Roberts and family have been visiting
friends in Brooks
Mrs. Fanny Merritt. the milliner. is in Cam
den on short vacation trip.
IN. ]. Dow was in Belfast last Monday, but
Mr.. Carleton kindly let him go home at night.
Rev. David Bracket is much improved in
health, but is not yet able to do any outside
business.
A. R. Pilley, our druggist, is in Boston on
business and Miss Gale Bracket is in the store
as special.
Marcellus J. Dow, agent for the J. H. Ames
Co., will handle the Rice Potato Digger again
this season.
Mrs. Fred Walker of Clinton and her three
children has been visiting friends and rela-
tives in town.
Mr.. A. B. Carpenter of Liberty has been
stopping with his uncle, W. H. Swift, for the
past five weeks.
Mrs. s. J. Reynolds Of Palatka, Florida, with
her son and daughter, is visiting the family of
Ira w. Bowden.
Mrs. Chas. S. Hobbs and family returned
home last Monday from a months stay at
Temple Heights.
Isaac S. Staples and son have built store
house for their sleighs and carriages, which
they very much needed.
Mr.. Wilbur E. Barker, the we'll known man.
ager of the Brooks Grain Co., is sick at his
home with typhoid fever.
Harold Lounsbury, student at the Good
Will School. is spending his vacation with Lee
I Thompson at the E. o. Stantial farm y
Mr.. E. D. Bessey of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Joined
his family in Brooks last week for much de-
sired outing among relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. William C. Rowe went to Cam
den Tuesday to attend the reunion of the 10Th
Maine Regiment, of which Mr.. Rowe was a
member
To day, Thursday, the Congregational Sun
day school will have picnic at the Dr. N R
Cook place, with lots to eat and good time for
everybody.
With the first of September M. J. Dow will
advertise reduction in silks, Himalaya cloth
and some other nice goods of which he has a
stock on hand.
! Miss Pauline Leonard, who has been attend
ing the High school in Boston for three years
is taking her vacation with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. X. Leonard
Young & Cox are loading car with potatoes
at the Forbes siding at so cents per bushel c.
E. Lane reports over 200 bushels per acre on
the piece he is digging.
Rev. F. s. Doliff has obtained nice organ
for his little daughter and will make an at
tempt to develop her musical qualities, if she
proves to be possessed of any.
| Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Stantial of Belfast called
upon friends in Brooks last Sunday. It is a
quick trip in his new touring car. He intends
to use it in his business this fall
Mrs. Trip from Leominister, Mass, whom
we used to know here as Miss Rebecca Rich,
has been entertaining party of ladies at her
old home, the Levi Rich homestead.
Mr.. Gordon took Rev. Humphrey Small out
for ride in his automobile the other morning
which Mr.. Small very much enjoyed. His
health is poor and he gets out but little.
Mrs. Rose Young and daughter Eva from
Franklin. Mass, have passed pleasant vaca-
ton with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.
Peavey. They returned home Wednesday.
Mrs. L. A. Bachelor, superintendent of the
West Brooks Sunday school, is teaching the
young people the principles of music somewhat
after the way of the old-stye singing master.
Mr. Tilton A. Elliott, who conducts model
poultry farm at the old r. G. Edwards place,
has added to the business that of an egg col
lector and thus finds himself busily employed
Miss Gertrude Gowen is here all the wav
from California to visit her grandpapa, Chas.
E. Lane. And incidentally we are all glad to
see her again. She has been in California
seven years.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. F. Hanlon of Ridlonville,
Me-, have been visiting their niece, Mrs W.
H. Swift. Mr.. Swift drove them to Branch
Mills Sunday morning and returned that even
ing, distance of As miles.
Miss Agnes A. Porter, who has been visiting
her uncle, Prof. F. A. Porter at his summer
SoIedSS az OHiey Lane dIu HSi uHCle, LIZ. T.. "A.
Porter of Pittsfeld, has returned to her home
at her uncle's, W. H. Swift.
Isaac S. Staples, our veteran carriage maker
and householder, while at work in his shop last
Monday was overcome and Frustrated by the
heat. He was taken to his home and Dr. A. E.
Kilgore was called in for medical attendance
Lieut.. and Mrs. D. R. McAndlass, formerly
of Belfast, have become permanent residents
of Brooks, having bought the valuable Walter
Penney farm upon which they have resided for
some time. Mrs. McAndlass recently present.
ed her husband with nice boy as a matter of
encouragement.
Last week the Ladies' Aid Society had
picnic and outdoor social in the Emmons
grove, which everybody enjoyed In addition
to the sociabiity of the occasion Mrs. Vesta
Davis Higgins favored them with talk upon
her experiences in the Philippines and gave
interesting accounts of other travels.
1t seems like old times to see the familiar
face Of Mrs. Vesta Davis Higgins around our
village again, where she for some years was at
home with US. She and her husband now plan
to make home here again in the near future.
She went to Bangor Tuesday noon to spend
two weeks with friends and to take in the fair