The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-10-10
The News of Brooks.

The News of Brooks.
Mr.. Leeman is kept busy with his threshing
machine.
| Chase storehouse.
Mrs. Rand and son from Bangor are visiting
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred H. Brown.
E. R. Knowlton has broken up several acres
on the Dow farm for the next seasons crop.
1t may not be generally known that the
Brooks postoffice is now a Postal Saving De-
pository.
Mr.. Tracy of St. Adams has been assisting
the local agent, M. J. Dow, in the sale Of the
Rice Potato Digger.
Milton Leonard is building nice house
which will be an ornament to the West Brooks
road. 1t is now ready for the plast sring.
Mrs. Geo. A. Thompson has moved to the
village to spend the winter with her daughter,
Mrs. Fred Emmons, and her farm house will
be closed.
Oscar and Henry Stiles are digging potatoes
on the Emery o. Stantial place. Potatoes
start at As cents this week and are coming in
quite freely. In many fields the tops are still
quite green.
The ladies of Silver Crown Lodge, Pythian
Sisters, had special meeting last Friday
evening with refreshments and sociability.
The gentlemen were invited and all was gay
as marriage bells.
We were pleased recently to receive cali
from Mrs. Frank Trickey of Bangor, whom we
formerly knew in Thorndke as Miss Ida Webb.
Thirty years from school days have changed
US all, but the associations of school life are
never forgotten.
Wilson Bachelor, who has been with Isaac
McKeen of Swanville for the past year, spent
the week end with his stepmother, Mrs. L. A.
Bachelor, in Brooks. He will spend the win
ter with his uncle in Detroit.
Mrs. John Hawkes. of Westrook, Me-, who
has been visiting relatives in Knox, called
upon some of her old friends here last week.
After her marriage she lived in Jackson for
some time. later moving to Portland, where
Mr.. Hawkes. died.
Hugh Gordon has returned to Brooks and is
working in the John Irving blacksmith shop,
where many good dollars have been pounded
out on the anvil in past years. Ira Grady is
occupying the shop formerly used by Hugh
| Gordon, and we have some nice horse shoers in
Brooks now.
The fall session of the schools have begun
uirh bo follouipo roaohors. Hiob school Pau1
P. Jones; intermediate, Gertrude Peavey;
primary, Mabel Rose and Gladys Godding
West Brooks, Erma Barker. There really
two primary schools. Miss Rose is in her old
room and Miss Godding has the new building,
just finished.
Mrs E. D. Bessey left for her return trip to
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, last Tuesday with her sons,
Charles and John. She was also accompanied
by Mrs. Bertha Berry of Thorndike, Who goes
there to visit her brothers. Charles Bessey,
Jr.. who spent the summer with his uncle E.
I. Bessey, in Thorndike, was looking brown
and tough and started for Ohio in fine con-
dition.
| Our people filled the gregational church
last Sunday evening and gave rousing well
come to the Rev. F. w. Barker, who was for
some years the pastor Of this church. He
gave an eloquent address, His tribute to the
memory of Mrs. Barker, now deceased, was
beautifully and tenderly expressed and met
generous response from those who had learn
ed to love and admire her for her many lovely
qualities and for her attractive personality
She left the impress of her suberb qualities
of mind and heart upon this place to an extent
perhaps greater than that of any other wo-
man who has graced the town by her presence.
| Potatoes are being hauled in from the fields
in considerable quantities, and shipped from
this station at As cents bushel and they are
fine ones.
Merton Fogg is getting around finely on
crutches and after experimenting the digging
of the potatoes on his farm will move back to
the village for the winter.
| large delegation of Brooks people attend
ed the two days festivities at the Jackson CEN
tennial, and all voted it one of the most enjoy
able occasions of the year.
Gorham Hamlin is supplying his regular GUS
TONERS in the village with the best quality of
sweet apples for the winter consumption, as
he has done now for some years past.
The corn factory, which had been running
full blast, has been closed down for the week
until today hursday-w some fifteen
acres which was hardly ripe enough until now,
will be ready for the cans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cheney Higgins spent last
week with friends and relatives in Thorndike,
renewing their youth among the boys and girls
of thirty years ago. many of whom cannot
recognize in the corpulent person of Mr.. Hig-
gins the slender youth of % who they last saw
taking his departure in 1854 for the great
West.
Mrs. Fred W. Brown, Jr., is in the Waldo
Cou MY HOSPITAL, having successfully UNDER
gone critical surgical operation, and is now
in comfortable condition. She has been in
very poor health for some time, and her many
friends now hope for her speedy recovery and
future enjoyment of life. Their son Harry
and family have come into town from the farm
and are keeping house for Mr.. Brown while his
wife is away.
Autumn is with us in all its glorious beauty.
su CHI as no painters brush could portray. AS