The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-05-30
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Rev. David Bracket is making some i'm.
/ provements to his dwelling house.
Sarah J. Cole is spending the millinery
season as usual with her sister, Mrs A. E.
Dow.
A. b. Stantial is doing little work upon
his place in Belfast, and will move there in
August.
Stanley Roberts of this town has section
on the railroad in Unity He is said to be
a worker.
Mrs. Emily Walker, who recently moved
back to Brooks from Belfast, is very ill and
not expected to recover
James F. Jewell has long job as car
penter with Mr.. Twombly of Monroe, who
is making extensive repairs on his buildings.
W. B. Ingersoll and family mourn the loss
OF one of their boys, seven years of age.
The funeral will be at the home Friday
May 31st.
VIM Lord is still in poor health, but we
saw him sitting in an easy chair in the front
yard the other morning ENJOYING the beau
tiful sunshine.
10 the surprise of herself as well as every
one else Mrs. Mary E. Weber has been
moved down stairs and can sit up for a
short time, but is SO weak she cannot walk
a STEP
Mrs. Fannie Merritt came home last week
from Camden, where she has position AS
mllliner, to see her son Raymond, who is
quite i'll. He has now recovered and she
has returned to her business.
L. A. Elliott and family returned to Lin
coin, Maine, last Tuesday. He is doing a
good business as an insurance agent there
Their Brooks friends are always glad to
meet them here.
viii Swift is the owner of a fine colt by
Alcazar, No. 1926, for which he has already
been offered a large price He has a buck
that furnished a fleece weighing over II
pounds this year. He has some nice sheen
and says they are profitable.
A. S. Forbes has returned from Connect
cut, where he spent the winter with his
daughter Cora True to his instincts he
has at once gone to work on his farm, and
the next day after he got home he was seen
in the top of a big apple tree engaged in
grating rather a dangerous job for a man
SO years old
OBITUARY. Mrs. Hannah P. Clifford
died at the residence of her son-in-law,
Charles L. Austin, in South Brooks, May
7, 1901. She had been in poor health for
some months, but was confined to her bed
only short time. The funeral was held at
her late residence May 9th. Friend Omar
&. Hussey officiated and spoke very feel
lngly of the many good qualities of the de-
ceased. She was devoted mother and a
Christian woman and was respected by all
who knew her. She leaves to mourn their
loss two sons and one daughter-Rogers W.
Clifford of Farwell Montana; William H.
Clifford of Leweta, Colorado; and Mrs
Charles L. Austin of South Brooks, with
whom she had lived for the past 81 years
also an aged sister, Mrs. Mary W. Rich of
Benton Falls, Me-. and brother, John F.
Woods of Wellington, Kansas and twelve
grandchildren. She was born in Unity,
Me-, Nov. -, 1924, the daughter of Henry
j. Woods, who moved to Waldo two years
later, where the deceased lived until she
was 81 years of age when she was married
to Nathaniel B. Clifford, with whom she
lived until his death.
MEMORIAL OBsERvANCEs. The services
here last Sunday were very interesting.
Ezra E. Carpenter, assisted by willing
workers, collected large quantity of plants
and flowers and the altar of the church was
beautifully decorated. The Brooks band in
their new uniforms acted as an escort to
Geo. G. Davis Post, which attended the ser
vices in a body. The church was crowded,
and Rev. F. W. Barker delivered an elo-
quent sermon The male quartette furnish
ed some excellent musical selections and
the entire service was appropriate and in
teresting. The day should thus be OBJ
served in every town in this country. The
moral effect is excellent.
Arrangements have been made to observe
May 30th in an appropriate manner. All
school children are invited to meet at the
village schoolhOuse at noon, from which
they will be escorted to the G.. A. R. Hall by
the Brooks band. The Knights of Pythias
will join the column from their hall. At
10 P. NJ. the procession will form at the G..
A. R. Hall ana march to the old cemetery
and then back to the hall and from there to
the new cemetery. At both cemeteries the
usual exercises will take place, after which
the procession will march to the church
where the Grafton will be given. The
Brooks band will act as escort and furnish
music. A. B. Stantial is to be marshal of
the day.
The Good Templars are to meet at their
hall at 1890 P NJ. Visiting K. P.'s, Good
Templars, school children and citizens are
invited to join the procession.
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,