The Republican journal., 1911-09-21
The News of Brooks

Mrs. Martha Luce is visiting her brother, |
Charles E. Lane.
Fred Moulton attended the Friends Quarter /
ly meeting in Vassalboro last week.
Mrs, Albert Payson is employed as book |
keeper in the store OF Young & Cox.
NJ. j. Dow went to Augusta Monday as a
member of the State Temperance committee.
Mrs. Blyn Stantial has been quite i'll with
Mr.. and Mrs. Hale Rose recently moved into
their nice new home on the Page hill. We
wish them all kinds of happiness.
The schools opened with the same instruc-
tors as at the former term. Mr.. Trott and Miss
Peavey occupying the remodeled building, and
Miss Rose at her old stand.
Mrs. Earl Bessey and sons, accompanied by
Miss Gwen Body, left last week for Zanes
vile. Ohio. Miss Body will spend the winter
with her sister, Mrs. Prince Bessey.
Miss Georgia Dutton, after spending few
weeks here completing her work with the
Chase & Co. firm returned to Canada, where
she Will venture upon the matrimonial sea.
Mrs. Sarah Edwards went to Massachusetts
Monday to spend several weeks with her son
Lawrence and wife. Mrs. Hannah Small left
on the same train to visit friends in New
York.
Our milliner. Mrs. Francis Merritt, left for
Boston Monday to spend a week or ten days
in looking up the fall and winter styles. On
her homeward way she will visit her son Ray
mond. who is attending school in Waterville.
Mrs. Vesta Davis Higgins returned to
Brooks in time to attend Monroe fair, after
long visits in Fairfield and Waterville; and, by
the way, the embroideries and laces entered
by Mrs. Higgins at Monroe were worth going
there to see, and valuable addition to the ex-
hibit in the ladies' hall. The EN- :, .dered lin
en- gown alone is valued at $50
The streets of this village present busy
scene these days, as all roads lead to the corn
factory and apple cannery. There has been an
extra fine corn crop this year and farmers are
rushing it in from all quarters The recent
hard frost damaged it to small extent on low
land. The factory employs crew of about 70
Hleh anu "oIildH anu VIII run soiile leH udS .
longer. The small apples are fast being canned
for future consumption, the shop giving en-
ployment to some 35 women and 10 men.
They expect to run until December, or later.
OBITUARY. A very sad case was the death
of Fred D. Davis, only son of c. D. Davis of
Brooks, at the age of q years and days. He
had been very tenderly reared as an only son,
being furnished with all the comforts and luxu-
ries that can be afforded a farmers son. He
graduated from the U. of NJ and took up for
estry as a profession and was thus employed
for several years, a part of the time by the
government He accepted position in West
Virginia, where he had been only few weeks
when he was taken down with typhoid fever
and died in hospital. The body was brought
to Maine and the funeral held at his old home
where large number of friends and acquaint-
ances gathered to pay the last respects to one
whom they all loved. Rev. H. G. Booth of
ficated and the village choir sang some appro-
pirate selections. In the old home was an
elegant piano which had been furnished by his
when a boy, and he afterward became quite
proficient in music. His mother died some
years ago, but her friends say that if she hac
been living the loss of the boy would have
killed her. The bereaved father has lost the
last of his immediate family and the town Of
Brooks one of its most able and highly valued
citizens.