The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-07-25
W. FRANKLIN BURNHAM,
The News of Brooks.

Rexford Ryder has been quite i'll from tonso-
litis.
Mrs. Almon Hustus has friends from Boston
with her this summer.
Donald Forbes has been appointed assistant
mail carrier for W. C. Austin.
Mr.. Fagg, who has been away from home
for some years, is now with his family.
Mrs. George Ryder is again very i'll. She has
had hard time of it for several years.
DR.. Kilgore and family are at the seashore
on vacation, and DIR. Cook is very busy.
Mrs. Young has been quite sick, but is gain
ing. Mrs. Josie Fogg is with her as nurse.
Rev. H. G. Booth is enjoying the company OF
two sisters, who came from New York to visit
him.
Roscoe E. Weber has another boy on his list
of children. 1t is nice baby and he is proud
of it.
Mrs. H. H. Pilley is getting out some after
being confined to the house for year or
more.
Mrs Barden and her two children have been
visiting her sister-in-law. Mrs. Peavey, in
Monroe.
Dorothy Warren from East Boston is spend
ing few weeks with her aunt, Mrs. E. A.
Carpenter.
Mr. BOWS foreman at the farm, r. S. Thomp-
son, is back in his old place and brought a
housekeeper with him.
A new gravel sidewalk has been built from
the hall past the hotel to BOWS corner 1t is
great Improvement to the street.
Isaac feathers has had his stable rebuilt and
now has nice set of buildings in fine loca-
ton, opposite the depot, where he has employ
ment.
Mr.. Roy A. Thompson and Mrs. Mildred
Wibberly, both of Frankfort, were married at
the residence of Marcellus J. Dow in Brooks,
July 22nd.
MIR. and Mrs James Busfeld of Haverhill,
Mass, recently visited her sister, Mrs. Z. II.
Forbes. They are spending the summer at
Windermere Park.
Carl Jenkins, while at work on Mr.. Miller's
barn, was hit by window which tell from
above, giving him quite bad cut over the eye
and causing him to faint.
Miss Carrie Cunningham of Swanvllle is
visiting her brother, Henry Cunningham MRS.
Cunningham, who has been quite sick, is some
what improved in health.
Mrs. Grace Dow Bachelor spent few days
last week at Northport enjoying the hospltali-
ty of the Higgins cottage. She returned Mon
day to resume her duties at the post office.
Mrs. Inez Harding of Billerica, Mass, re-
Gently visited friends in town. She and her
husband are stopping for the summer with
their daughter, Mrs. Geo. E. Bryant In Burn
ham.
Lawrence Estes, whom it was feared had
incipient tuberculosis, has spent the summer
in tent in the pine woods at the head OF
Estes street and is said to be coming round all
right again.
Emmons & Barden are kept quite busy
in their shop. They have an engine and
do quite variety of job work, and also stand
ready to attend to their vocation as contract
ors and builders.
Mrs. Saml H. Lord Of Belfast is with her
mother, Mrs. c. H. Forbes, who is critically
ill. Mrs. Myra Brown, who has just graduated
from the hospital at Augusta as trained
nurse, is caring for her.
The long drought was broken last Sunday by
copious rain, and everybody is thankful
The farmers have been finishing their haying
but there are yet many acres to harvest. The
crop is proving better than usual, SO far.
Mrs. Charles H. Forbes at last reports wal
in dying condition, there being no hope of hel
recovery. She has not rallied since the dealt
of her son Galen, when she was entirely pros
trated with grief. She said that she had M
wish to live.
Mrs. E. D. Bessey of GAINESVILLE, Ohio. will