The Republican journal., 1902-10-16
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

A letter received some time since an
nounced that Rev. Frank S. Forbes had tax
en- up his duties as principal of the McKin-
ley Memorial Home for boys and that his
address now is Los Angeles, Cal.
Roscoe G. Edwards, who has been sick
for some months with consumption, died
Sunday night. He was an active, energetic
man and took much interest in the local and
social interests of the place. For many
years he sang in the choir and he was the
Oldest member of the local cornet band
Roscoe Webber had his hand badly in
iured in an ensilage cutter one day last
week while working with his machine at the
farm of Harry Gates. He was brought to
the office of DR.. y. r. Cook, who dressed
the hand and made him as comfortable as
possible.
Charles Elwell of this town was taken to
the Maine General Hospital at Portland last
week to undergo an operation for rupture.
He was found by Charles f. Lane on the
road in a suffering condition and brought to
the doctors here who ordered him to Port
land.
Our readers will notice in this week s
journal the marriage of some former Wal
do County people in Lowell, Mass. The
following clipping from Lowell paper
will explain the matter:
Rambler must tell you of a little bit of
romance in real life which came to his
knowledge some months ago, and which
eliminated i'll a pretty little wedding which
occurred at 26 Tyler Street last evening
Well, to begin at the beginning, as the
story books say, there was once Il maid OF
seventeen away down in the backwoods Of
Maine. the portion of which was. called East
Thorndike, and a swain of twenty, who
''met by chance the usual way
| 1t being a case of love at first sight an in
timacy quickly sprang up resulting in an
engagement forthwith.
| Later on the young man went forth to
seek his fortune in the wild, woody West. "
After couple of years he finally settled
down to ranch life in Montana with the
| view of bringing wife there. That pros
| pect did not suit the maid and gradually
circumstances separated this couple who
had been all the world to each other. Some
years after, the maid made the great mis-
take, as others have done, OF marrying 1.-The
wrong man, which resulted in a separation
soon after.
The years glided quickly by. as they have
Il way of doing, and the maid now a mature
! woman, settled in Lowell, Mass, making a
pleasant home and comfortable living by
keeping IL lodging house, which business
| she followed for several years.
i The Young man had meantime entered the
! regular army in the West After Il four
! years soiourn in the Philippines this spring
/ his regiment returned East as far as Fort
| Sheridan, near Chicago, where he expects
I to be stationed for some time.
About that time a thoughtful relative OF
his learning the address of the lady in Low
| ell, sent it to cheer the heart of the lonely
soldier, who Immediately wrote with fear
and trembling to the enever-forgotten love of
| his youth.
That letter proved the "beginning OF the
end and arrangements were soon made tor
IA wedding in September when the officer
would take short furlough. The lodging
house was disposed of in short order, pass
| ing into the hands of a friend deeply inter
ested in the romantic affair, which rounded
| up in a most satisfactory manner last even
ing at the former home of the bride, when
| the couple who had not met for Is years
were united in marriage.
The happy pair whose hearts are again
but seventeen and twenty, left on a late
train for Boston, with the hearty good
wishes of numerous friends for the perfect
fulfilment of long delayed happiness, and a
prosperous and happy life. And l say,
"God bless you my children" q know what
it means to be disappointed in an affair OF
! the heart.)