The Republican journal., 1913-03-27
The News of Brooks.

liz NEWS vi DTOOkS.
John Dickey has been quite ill with
what seemed to be pneumonia, but at
last reports was better
Misses Ethel and Annie Cochran of
Frankfort have been visiting Mrs. P. H.
Grant of this village and returned to
their home March 18th
John Flagg is in Gardiner at work in
the shoe shop. Mrs. Flagg has now
gone there and they will have business
there for time at least.
Mrs. Charles Dckey has returned from
the Waldo County hospital, where she
submitted to surgical operation, and is
steadily improving in health.
Mr.. Joseph Flagg has opened repair
shop for boots and shoes. He under
stands the business and can without
doubt make himself useful here.
Mrs. Fannie Merritt is at home from
Boston with the latest ideas and the
newest goods in the millinery line and
her shop will soon be crowded with the
usual rush of customers
Harvest Home Grange is having special
entertainments now, with contesting
sides, and one. hour is spent at each meet
ing in this exercise. 1t is made very in
terestlng.
Roberts 4 Son are quite busy this Win
ter In making up some chairs for which
they nave standing contract. They
are stocking up with hard wood lumber
to be used in their business the coming
season.
We have received word that Miss
Bertha Luce is very ill at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Game, in Clinton. She
has suffered a bad hemorrhage of the
lungs and the case is diagnosed as in
clpient tuberculosis. Her mother. Mrs.
Martha Luce, is with her.
The annual ball given by the ladies of
Silver Grown Lodge, Pythian Sisters,
was very enjoyable occasion. There
was good attendance and it was very
quiet and orderly affair. A nice supper
was served and the receipts were salts
factory.
I Hollis Robertson of Athol, Mass, who
has been stopping with his brother Will
mot this winter in Monroe, was in.Brooks
recently and called on some of his old
acquaintance here. When boy he
worked for one season on the Dow farm
in West Brooks and formed acquaint-
ances here.
Harry M. Brown and Roscoe Barden
have bought the timber lot on the r. l.
Cilley place, with some additions. of
Charles F. Bessey, something better
than one hundred acres, and will do a
lumber business until it is finished. The
stand of pine and other black growth is
very good and they are lucky to get it at
this time.
The marked-down sales by our mer-
chants are patronized to a fair extent.
They are bona fide mark downs for cash
to pay urgent bills, and good trades can
now be obtained at any of our stores,
especially good during this month of
March. Without exception our stores
were overstocked with goods for the
local demand.
The funeral of Arnold Pettengill was
held at the Congregational church March
18th, Rev. David Bracket officiating.
The local choir furnished some appropri-
ate selections for the occasion. The
bearers were Charles E. Bowen, Mar
cellus j. Dow, Weboer Simpson, Waldo
E. Hall. Mr.. Pettengill was born in
Brooks and lived here until a few years
ago, when he went to Bingham to live
with his daughter. He broke his leg
last fall and never recovered from the
injury, and died in Bingham. The body
was placed in the receiving tomb. He
left four children: two sons, Bert ane
Walter, and two daughters, Mrs. Mipnie
McTaggart Of Bingham ard Mrs. Core
Hall of Brooks.
A notice Of the funeral services Of
Geo. G. Dickey at his home in Tyngs
boro, Mass, has been printed in The
Journal. He lived in Brooks quite a
number of years, and both he and hi
wife have relatives here. So it seemed
necessary as we'll as respectful to have
services at the church here also. Rev
David Bracket gave an address and the
| local choir furnished some appropriate
selections. The bearers were John Frost
Otis Lane, F. K. Roberts and Wilbur
: Barker. Mr.. Dickey had been a mem
Der of Marsh River Lodge Of Masons fol
many years and the burial service of thu
t order followed the regular church ser
J vice and he was reverently deposited il
his grave by his Masonic brethren, wit
: held him in high esteem. His wife wa
2 born in Brooks, the daughter of Zado
, Forbes, and her girlhood was passe'
, here. Mr.. Dickey was section fore
2 man on the railroad and died of pneu
( monia after an illness of only two weeks
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