The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-09-18
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

THE NEWS OF BROOKS.
Friday Mr.. AMI Mrs. Cheney Higgins
were entertained at the Lord cottage at
Little river.
Asa Jones and wife took an outing last
week at Bayside, the guests OF Mrs
Jones brother, B. F. Ham and family.
/ j. W. Hobbs has closed out his grocery
store in this village. as he was unable to
bear the confinement on account of poor
health.
/ I. l. Huxford has had his large stand
of buildings reshingled, and the DR.. Rich
house singled. Sargent and Reynolds
did the work.
Miss Mildred Page has returned to her
home in Lowell, Mass, after spending
her vacation at Sprout Hill with her
aunt, Erva Gould.
Mrs. Miranda Roberts and Mrs. Edith
Murch went to Clinton Tuesday to visit
Mrs Edith Walker. They also attended
the Waterviile fair.
/ Miss Marie Chase of Portland is at
/ home for two weeks with her father, A.
E. Chase Mrs. Lizzie Chase arrived
Friday for a short visit.
Miss Edith Lawrence of Freedom, who
has been doing dressmaklng Tor some
of our ladies, returned home and is quite
i'll with an abscess Oh her knee.
Miss Peavey attended the teachers
convention in Belfast, returning Friday
by auto, with Mr.. Higgins and wife,
Mrs. Lillian Morrill, ana Mrs. Belle Estes.
Mrs. Wallace Estes ana daughter Ar
line visited Mrs. Inez White IN Belfast
Saturday. Mrs. White brought them
home at hight in her Maxwell runabout
Roy Godding's new house on Emmons
street is Well under way. 1t Is to be
completed by Nov. 1st, we are told, and
will be very pretty little home, OF
which MIR. Godding and wife are exceed
ingly proud.
Titon Elliott and wife are spending a
week here at their Old home. Mr.. FL
lott is working for the Mutual Life In
surance Co., and during the summer his
headquarters is IN Lincoln, where his
wife boards with friends.
Cheney Hig gins carried Willard Jones
and wife and three children to his cot
tage at Bayside Sept 3rd, where they re-
manned over the Weekend, coming home
Monday in time for the children to begin
school. All appeared to enjoy the little
outing very mucn.
James Bustieid and wife of Haverhill.
Mass, who spent the summer al Winnie
cook Lake, We're in Brooks Sept. 10Th
the guests OF their l.iece, Mrs. A B..
Payson, and left on the night train for
Belfast, to stop few days with Mrs.
Payson' S sister, Mrs. S. H. Lord.
Mrs. Francis Sanporn Hill of Rock
land, who has been the guest of Mrs,
Leander Staples for some time past, has
gone to Waterville to visit her brother,
accompanied by Mrs. Dora Sanborn of
Camden, WHO had been stopping few
days with the family of Wilbur Barker.
C. A. Lane and wife were in town two
DAYS this week, called here by the death
of Mrs. Lanes niece in Jackson. The
five members of the Lane family have
had steady employment through the sum-
mer at Dark Harbor, and will return
home al the end eff the season, Oct. LIST.
Augustus Ward and wife, nee Miss
Olive Roberts of this place, after spend
ing their honeymoon in Unity, went to
Belfast, where they have employment.
Mrs. Ward is bookkeeping in the Herald
office and MIR. Ward Is clerking for the
H. L. Written Company. Their many
friends wish them success.
Garfield Goddard, wife and children,
are enjoying many delig htful trips about
the country in their new " acquired Ford
car. Accompanied by Mrs. John Hobbs
thew motored to Bayside recently, have
visited friends in Bangor ana at North
ern Maine Junction, where Mr.. Goddard
was formerly stationed, and also attend
ed Etna campmeeting.
Happy Valley Chapter, .. p. S. held
tn cir first meeting Sept. 3rd after va
ca ton of two months. Quite goodly
| number assembled, and all seemed hap
py to meet together and take up again
the work of the order. Delicious re-
freshments We're served by the enter
tainment committee, Frances Merritt
and Lillian Morrill,. The fine dialogue
which was to have been given was post
poned until the next meeting, as the
heavy shower prevented some from be-
ing present.
The frost of Aug. 25th did no material
! damage u crops, eAeeP' Al 'iS 'o"'e
where cucumber, squash and pumpkin
vines suffered, but some cold nights re-
Gently remind US of the uncertainty of
all growing crops at this season, and we
are in fear and trembling lest killing
frost get our sweet corn before it is ready
for the factory. as some of it was little
late in planting. The canning factory
will begin operation this week, and many
farmers are looking askance at the rapid
ly growing moon and meditating on some
of the unpleasant things that SO often
happen when the September moon gets
full" After the drouth the timely
rains arrived to save the endangered
crops, esnecially potatoes. Hay turned
out fairly we'll and grain crops first class.
but apples will be somewhat Of failure
this year, partially owing to cold winds
in blossom season.