The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-04-21
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Harmon C. Slower is canvassing for a
book.
The church bell is to be rung for the Sum-
day school hereafter.
A. B. and Frank Hatch of Morrill, called
on friends here last Sunday.
Mrs. Estes and Inez Fogg have returned
from business trip to Boston.
Mrs. Lena West went to Freedom last
week for visit of few days with friends.
Kate Small has gone to Swanville to help
care for her grandmother, who is very sick.
Charles Bessey has shipped nice young
cartilage horse to his son Prince in Barre,
VT
The Eastern Star Chapter has a special
session next Monday evening to confer the
degrees.
Miss Bessie Carpenter, the trained nurse
from Bangor, is with Josie Brown, who has
been very i'll.
Miss Mildred McCarty was in Belfast last
week to attend the wedding of her cousin,
Miss Maud McCarty.
C. E. Lane is having an addition made to
his village residence for a woodshed. Ed
| mund Young will do the work.
Foster Small of Swanville, who lived in
! this town several years, was in town Satur-
day. He is to teach school in Searsport.
Miss Maud E. Barker of Belfast called
on us in Brooks Tuesday morning as she
was on her way to visit friends in Jackson.
Frank Fogg has bought the Ansel Pettin-
gill house and is making extensive repairs
Mr. Pettingill is to move into another house
near by.
! DR.. \. R. Cook went to the Maine Gener-
al Hospital in Portland last week with
another patient, Mr.. Andrews from
| Swanville.
| A. E. Chase is building new barn cover
the BRIDGE" near where the old school
house used to be. 1t will be quite a con
venience to him.
Charles F. Bessey has returned from
| Barre, VT, where he owns a granite bust
ness. He reports the strike as settled and
| the cutters all at work.
We notice that on the main line1when
naming the stations on this branch they
call it Brooks city. All right. We are
modest, but we can stand Il little tatfy.
E. A. Carpenter, wife and daughter, Mr..
Jewett Mrs. Laura Chase and M. j. Dow
attended the annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge of Good Templars in Bangor last
week
Harold Merithew, who is running as head
brakeman on the Belfast freight, spent his
boyhood in Brooks and is nephew of the
late R. G. Edwards. His many friends here
hope to see him made conductor soon.
The spring terms of school opened Mon
day with the following teachers: Village
Primary, Mabel Rose West Brooks, Grace
f. Dow South Brooks, Edna Elwell. The
High school, Earl D. Bessey teacher, will
close in a few weeks.
The boys got up a good entertainment at
the Good Templar lodge last Saturday even
ing. The new scenery, painted for the occa-
sion by themselves, showed considerable
ability. John Leonard gave a violin solo
with Lou May Huxford as accompanist
Brooks is a temperance town, yet there
are few persons here who sometimes
| drink. Our citizens have always allowed
| that they will not have liquor sold here. 1t
is now said, however, that certain young
man here has been dealing in the stuff.
The best advice his friends can give to him
is to get out of it mighty quick
At the March session of the Pomona
Grange in Brooks we had the pleasure of
meeting our old friend, Capt n Smart As
We looked at his bright face and listened to
his able argument in favor of the good
roads movement, we could but hope and
believe that many more years of usefulness
were to be added to his already useful life.
1t was with deep sorrow that a short time
later we learned of his death In common
with many others we shall cherish his
memory.
We notice that The journal editor has
given our town some nice little notices
lately. The people of this place certainly
ought to appreciate the courtesies shown
us by the management of this paper, which
by the way is one of the very hest and
ablest conducted of the weekly papers in
Maine. Its columns are always open to
any communication that may be of value to
its constituents and no family in Waldo
County can afford to be without it. 1t is a
great mistake to pass the local paper in
favor of some sheet that may present more
pages for the same or less money. The
home paper is a necessity in every intelli-
gent home