The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-03-16
The News of Brooks

l.. A. Bachelor has his third car of logs
loading on the siding.
M. j. Dow has in a case of new domestics.
Fresh goods and low prices
To the surprise of all it now looks as if Mrs.
L. c. Cilley would get upon her feet again.
Peavey Brothers have got moved from here
to their farm in Monroe, just south of the VIII
lage.
Mrs. Frances Merritt the miliner, who is
now in Boston, will soon return with the latest
styles.
John W. Hobbs with his family, including
the new baby. drove to Winterport last Satur-
day to call upon friends
Tuesday evening, March 7th, pleasant
company gathered with Wilbur Barker and
family for the weekly sing in connection with
the Congregational church.
Henry Lehann, the well known war veteran
of Liberty, who is spending the winter in
Brooks with his daughter, has been ill and con-
fined to his room for several weeks.
The Sunday evening meetings at the Con-
gregational church are made very interesting
by Mr.. Booth, who makes specially of the
song service and gives short address.
At this writing Joseph Long is said to be
dangerously ill at his home in this village,
where he has lived since selling his farm in
Jackson. He has been employed as care taker
about the stable and other buildings of A. E.
Chase.
Walter Young and wife drove to Liberty last
Saturday, coming home Monday morning. He
has dandy roadster, recently bought, and takes
great delight out of the store and on the run
ners. If you think his one cannot go
some, just hook onto him some fine day.
Marcellus J. Dow, the dry and fancy goods
man, has new horse which he is breaking
for his own use. At present he is satisfied if
he can keep inside the bitches, but he thinks
he has something that will suit him when well
broken. His old carriage horse, "Don," known
to everybody for miles around, has been sent to
the farm for rest cure for lameness, which
has spoiled him for roadster.
A second operation was performed last Sat-
urday upon Mrs. Rose A. Cilley of this place
by DIR. Thompson of Bangor, assisted by Doc
tors Kilgore and Cook of this place. At this
writing she is doing finely, although it was con-
sidered to be desperate case, with little hope
of recovery. But she insisted upon taking the
chance feeling that she could not live as she
was
We were pleased the other day to receive a
call from Winslow Gould of Monroe, who used
to be in Brooks frequently. He was promi
nent in the early grange work in Monroe, and
especially enquired for A. J. Robertson and
wife, now of Newton Center, Mass, but for
merly of Monroe and members of the grange
there. He also had "reminiscences of Will
Pattee, formerly of Jackson, now Dean of
Law School in Minnesota, who was his school
mate at Kent's Hill.
Mrs. Lorenzo Jones met with what appears
to have been quite serious accident last Mon
day evening at the house of her granddaugh-
ter, Mrs. Towers, in this village; where she
was visiting. She was found unconscious at
the foot Of the cellar stairs and had to be car
ried above where she seemed to be very sick
vomiting blood and other matter indicating in
ternal injury. DR.. A. E. Kilgore was called to
attend the case. AT this writing she had not
recovered sufficiently to tell how the accident
&C Cured. One Of the lower steps of the stairs
was broken, however, and it is thought that
she must have made misstep and fallen to