The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-06-08
The News OF Brooks.

G. E. Lane has planted twenty acres,
Michael Chase gets over to the store these
pleasant days
Dr. E. P. Luce of Bangor stopped in this
village last Monday night.
Miss Mildred McCarty has been enter
tanning friends from Belfast.
Frank W. Gibbs is acting as road commits
sioner for the west part of the town
Mrs. VIM. McTaggart of Waterville visited
her mother, Mrs. E c. Body, last week
T. A. Elliott, who was called home by the
illness of his wife, has started out again as
an insurance agent.
The band will present the burlesque
Ancient Order of Hercules at Windermere
Park, Unity, Tuesday evening,
W. A. Jewell, superintendent of agencies
for the Union Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
was in town Monday and Tuesday.
Our band boys went to Windermere last
Tuesday to give an entertainment at the
opening Of that resort for the season.
G. F. Bessey il handling the Edminister
stallion this season, He makes inc work
horse, being equal in power to two ordinary
ones,
Dir. A. W. Rich is making quite an addi-
ton to his buildings He has still lots Of
surplus energy AMI eXpends it in useful
labor.
Mrs. Mary Leath+rs of Troy attended the
r;.,lI n
husband, Silas B. Leathers, of the Ash Me.
Regiment, is buried here.
Harrison Roberts and r. A Hall are do
ing the carpenter work On the church. A.
B. Huff, who had the contract for the loun-
dalton, has his job completed,
James Chandler, Esq, will sell at public
auction the John Lane farm in this town.
with some stock and farming implements,
Saturday, June 9th, at 10 A. NJ
Z. E. Lane has bought the claims of other
parties interested in the place lately oc-
cupied by ID. g. Simpson and is doing quite
large amount of work omit this season.
The annual repair of the highways ia
Jackson developed slight unpleasautness
between certain parties there which it is ex-
pected will be further calculated before
judge Dow this week.
The new guideboards are in position and
are a great Improvement. Some little diff
Guilty was experienced in placing every body
on the main road to Belfast, but barring this
they give general satisfaction.
Augustus P. Small of Palmyra has recent
ly set handsome monument in the new
cemetery. 1t is the work of Ambrose Fogg
of Bangor. Messrs. Small and Fogg were
once schoo mates in this town.
Mrs Louisa Lane of Milford, Mass, has
been visiting at H. H. Pilley's. She and
her husband, the late Wesley Lane, Were
formerly residents of Brooks and are well
known to the older people of the town.
E. A. Carpenter has bought the E T
Page farm and has leased it for the present
year to j G. Simpson. If Ezra strikes in
farming there with his usual energy it will
be quite a surprise party to the old place on
the hill.
\ good Job was done in grading up in front
of the meeting house last week and it viii
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townsmen from some distance outside the
village have cheerfully given several days
work each with their teams. Such men as
j, r, Littleheld, |. G.. Reynolds and Otis
Elwell came here in force and took hold OF
the hard work like tigers. The ladies have
furnished the dinners at the G. A. r. dining
room.
1rn off, OF iZayl ant tr0t tIhi he
other day, Probably some of your readers
at this point will throw down the paper
with the cruel and unfeelng remark. that
most likely both got drunk and didn't catch
a fish. Hold on, my friends; not quite 80
fast. This might be true Of some certain
towns We could mention, but it is not the
way they do business in Brooks not by
Jug full. Indeed, some of the younger anC
more minimizing class here made the same
remark when they started away bright and
early in the morning. But this pessemistic
view of the matter was not cOuntenanced
for moment by the more conservative peo
pie who knew the men. That night the
shades of darkness We're gathering rapid y
as one Of them, who lives in nice stand
in, sober as Judge. On his face, or that
part of it which showed through the thickl y
clustering work of the black-hy artists. was
the weary look which told Of much exercise
with insufficient nourishment; while tbe
sole contents of his basket We're three smoked
alewives that he had bought at HuXford :
store for his supper. The most melancholy
feature of the affair is that it has shaken the
confidence of our people in "dry" fishing
The fear is very generally expressed that
the influence of the great object lesson
which our friends gave at so much personal
discomfort is likely to be lost, and that their
shining example is likely TO be more honor
ed in the breach than in the observance.
OBITUARY A telegram was received here
Monday from Taunton, Mass, bringing the
sad news of the sudden death of Everett Foss
!, at that place The precise cause of his death
is at this writing unknown. although he had
, not been in his usual health for some time
Charles Everett Foss was born in Brooks in
1874, and was the son of G. F. Foss, a life
long and respected resident of this town
He early showed ambition to obtain an
education, and attended the E. NJ c. Semi