The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-03-03
The News of Brooks.


MS uncle, A. B. Payson, last week.
ots Hamlin, who has been very sick with
pneumonia, is reported to be convalescent.
Mr.. John W. Hobbs has been kept quite
closely at home as his mother is very sick.
Mrs. Dora Sanborn went to Camden Tues
day and will visit in Boston before her return
home.
We were all pleased to see Sidney Weber of
Searsport, but formerly of Brooks here with
his wife at the K. of P. ball.
Squire Bangs of Freedom was in town re-
Gently on business. Mrs. Bangs accompanied
him and visited Mrs. A. B. Payson.
Arthur Ellis and wife, Mrs. Rena Roberts
Ellis, will move to Monroe Centre this week,
where he has business with the saw mill.
Mr. Dow has at his store a sample invoice of
the fashionable Himalaya and Durbar dress
goods which he will keep in stock this season.
Many tons of fertilizer are being hauled back
to the farms on the snow. 1t looks as if some
thing would be doing in Waldo county next
season.
Mrs. Nevers Roberts Shaw started for Wool
wich with her children last Wednesday. Mr..
Shaw is brakeman on the railroad and will
make his home there
Miss Alice Clary is spending this winter in
Brooks, instead of in Massachusetts, as has
been her custom of late years, and the Clary
homestead is kept open.
DIR. A. f. Kilgore has improved so that he is
doing business in his office, but has not driven
out at this writing. For three weeks he was
confined to his room, too sick to even solace
himself with chew of tobacco, and we must
understand that he was feeling tolerably mis-
cradle.
Levi Stevens has resigned his position as
clerk in the store of A. E. Chase to start in
business for himself. He has bought the bust
ness and goods of F. B. Taylor in Jackson and
has taken possession of the Grange store. He
has ambition and ability and the chances are
that he will make success of the venture.
Pupils who did not miss day in the Primary
school during the term just closed were Pearl
Glehrest, Beulah Cook, Owen Miller, David
Walker, Raymond Hall; missed one day, Will
liam Files, Berle CHM, Robert McTaggart,
Faustina Roberts. Tom Cook missed one and
half days in thirty weeks. Miss Mabel Rose
has been for years the popular teacher in this
school.
Our people were surprised and shocked last
week by news of the death in Jackson of Mrs
Geneva Jewett and her sister, Miss Ida Kim
hal tho 6au after short illDacs
from pneumonia. Brooks was their post Office
and they were often in this village, and were
here together only few days ago. The fu-
neral services were held at their late home last
Sunday.
Letters were received here recently by
friends of John C. Lane, formerly of Brooks,
but now of Portland, who is a travelling sales
men ranging over large extent of territory.
The last letter was from Indianapolis. He
spent several months in Canada and had just
returned to the States. His wife is with him
on this trip and they are to visit f. D. Bessey
and wife in GAINESVILLE, Ohio
Will Works, a lifelong resident of Brooks,
died at the home of his brother, Mr.. James
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many months from tuberculosis He was the
youngest son of the late Joel Works of this
town and lived on the homestead place. His
wife, Mary Pettengill Works, died some years
ago, leaving four small children, who are now
at tender age left without father or mother.
Fer some time they have been cared for by
their aunt, Mrs. James Works.
Mrs. Lavinia Elwel Whitman of Boston,
Mass, formerly of Brooks, is spending the
winter in Southern California at the ranch of
her uncle, N. J. Peavey, visiting with her son
Clifton and her mother, Mrs. E. L. Elwell. Mrs.
Whitman reports delightful and interesting
trip having made several stops along the way
to visit her friends, DR.. P. and Mrs. Steele in
Columbus, Ohio, and in Riceville, Iowa, with
her aunt, Mrs. Lorenzo E. Elwell, and her uncle,
Webster E. Peavey. who is very successful
real estate man. While there she had the op-
portunity of visiting the twin cities of the
West, and went thence to Los Angeles and
San Diego.
Philadelphia of Mrs. Lydia E. Mclaughlin,
which meant little to the people in this vicini-
ty. But when it is called to the attention of
the older people that she was known as girl
by the name of Lydia E. Cole, and was born on
what is now the Gorham Hamblin place. just
over the line in jackson, and that she was the
daughter of Elijah Cole and a sister of James
and Asa Cole, why then they realize that it
was some one whom they knew She had been
three times married and was possessed of con-
siderable property at the time of her death,
portion of which will go to her nephew, Geo.
M. Cole of the State of Washington, and to her
niece, Mrs. E. G. Louder of Thorndike. She
was woman of fine appearance and of consid-
cradle ability and had become well-known and
prominent, especially in the society of the
Friends or Quakers in Philadelphia and in
New England. Her summers have often been
spent in Maine.
Some time ago we received letter from B.
c. Nichols, Esq, of Ellerton, Ella. but formerly
of Searsport, Maine, with whom the people of
that town and of other towns in the county
were formerly well acquainted as High school
teacher. He went to Florida some Is years
ago and invested in real estate, but had follow
ed the business of High school teacher until
last May, when he gave it up. He went to Chi
cago and from there to other States in the Cen
trail West but suffered sun stroke which was