The Republican journal., 1900-08-23
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

| Willard F. Chase will enter the Freshman
class of Dartmouth College next month.
| Mrs. c. s. Bracket and daughter Gail re-
turned to her home in Newport Friday.
| Rev. d. Bracket and wife, W. A. Brack-
EFT and Mrs. Snow are at Northport for two
weeks.
| Ernest Libby of Bridgwater, Mass, who
has been visiting friends here, returned
| Monday.
| Frank H. Quimby has been drawn as
traverse juryman from Brooks for the
September term.
| The rebuilding of the Long bridge has
been let to c. f. Bowen, and the Leathers
bridge to C. II. Forbes.
Jas. F. Jewell and Fred Emmons went to
Bangor this week to make some changes in
tenement occupied by F. o. Day.
| A. Willis Paine and wife of Los Angeles,
Cal, were in town Saturday Mr.. Paine
taught school here in the winter of 1s59-60
Mrs Paine was formerly Hattie Gilman Of
Brooks.
We are glad to know that our school
board is awake to the Importance of the
Waldo County Teachers Association, which
meets here in September. Properly utilized
this meeting can be made of great benefit to
J the school system of the town. The last
meeting in Brooks was practically failure
| from lack of interest and partly from want
of proper advertising. The school board
are determined that this shall not be the
| case this year.
| GrandArmy Hall was filed with our people
| last Saturday evening to listen to the speech
| of Mr. Frank W. Gowen of Waterville against
| resubmission of liquor legislation. The
Brooks Cornet Band furnished music for the
occasion and paraded the streets and escort
ed the speaker. who was entertained by {
F. Lane, Esq. to the hall Mr.. Lane called
the meeting to order at p. H. ana called NJ
j. Dow, Past G. c. 7. of Maine, to the
chair. Mr.. Dow said it gave him great
pleasure to intro duce the speaker of the
evening, who was formerly Waldo county
boy and who had upheld the cause of temper
ance and prohibition for a good many years,
Frank ". Gowen, Past international Lee :
turer of the Order of Good Templars.
Mr.. Gowen spoke for over an hour, and
among other things said that the Democrats
had raised the local issue in Maine of the
repeal Of our prohibitory law and the sub
stituton OF license law in its place, andas
he was opposed to license he intended to
speak nearly every night during the cam
paign in opposition to any organization,
political or otherwise, that favored the re-
submission of our temperance laws to the
people. He said that the position of the
Democratic party on this license question
in the State of Maine reminded him of
story of two young ladies who were spend
ing their summer vacation on the beautiful
shore of the Pine Tree State. They were
ont fishing one day and one of the young
ladies, who was meeting with good success
said to her friend, who was less successful
What is the trouble, you don't catch any
fish. Let me examine your bait and as she
did so she found her friend using crab bait
and expecting to catch trout. What an
idea. so we say to the license men and to
the Democratic party-gentlemen, you are
using the wrong kind of bait. You cannot
cdlcl tlle Soou people VI -hdille W III lHlS
license bait. You will catch absolutely
nothing. excepting the greatest political
licking on election day in September that
you have ever received in the proud old
State of Maine. Why is it? asked the
speaker, that you do not have any rum shops
in this tiourishing village? 1t is because of
our I'rohibitory laws. Place this same town
in any license State and what would you
have? A number of wide open rum shop $
right under your nose: and still they say
our Prohibitory law is failure. Mr.. Gowen
thoroughly believes in retaining the Philip
pines, ana said that no President since the
formation of our government had been
brought face to face with such great and
mighty issues as confront President Nc
kinley to-day. From a country having no
great international prestige, we have be-
come under his administration one of the
greatest powers in the world.