The Republican journal., 1905-08-31
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Mrs. Isaac feathers has been in poor
health for some time
Frank Holbrouk is assisting in stock
taking in Chase's store.
Miss Ada Jones visited her cousin, Mrs.
Frances Merritt, last week.
Mrs. E. A. Carpenter and daughter Lena
are spending month in Northport.
Miss Olive Roberts has just recovered
from light attack of typhoid fever.
Miss Fitzpatrick, teacher of Latin at C. c.
L., Waterville, is visiting Miss Marie Chase.
Miss Maud Stantial of Belfast has been
spending few days with her aunt, Mrs. B.
+. Stantial.
E. C. Body has taken the contract for
the new receiving tomb and will begin
work at once.
A. B. Huff has raised the schoolhouse in
West Brooks and put in good drain and a
stone and cement foundation.
Mrs. F. W. Barker of Amesbury, Mass,
with her children, Margaret and Muriel has
been spending week with friends here.
The fall term of the High school opened
Monday with c. P. Durrell of Oxford as
principal and Grace E. Dow as assistant
Mrs. Hattie Merrithew was thrown from
a carriage Friday and badly bruised, but it
is hoped that no serious injuries will re-
suit.
The school in East Brooks has been dis
continued and the house is for sale. The
selectmen will receive offers for it at any
time.
Capt. Stephen Larrabee of Unity was in
Brooks last week to attend the wedding of
Miss Alice, daughter of his old friend NJ.
J. Dow.
Don't forget the concert in Union hall
Friday evening, Sept. list, by the Brooks
Male Quartette 1t will be an enjoyable
affair and the money obtained will be used
at home.
1t is now expected that the October ses-
sion of the Grand Lodge of Good Tempars
will be held in Brooks, and our old lodges
need to wake up and get move on. NJ. j.
Dow, P. G. c. T., is ready to help in any
locality
c. E. Lane began digging his potatoes
Monday. He has manufactured some crates
holding about a bushel for handling and
storing them. 1t is a handy arrangement
and our friends should examine them and
see how convenient they are.
The State road is progressing steadily
under the direction of Road Commissioner
j. G. Simpson, who began at the Monroe
Low ii IluC anu Ids ilU tdChlGu tllO LNllillD-
son hill. We are going to let our eastern
neighbors into Brooks village, sure as fate.
The cry of fire called our citizens to the
corner in double quick time Saturday even
ing. The alarm was caused by the falling
of a lamp in the post office. Fortunately
the fire was soon eXtinguished and the only
loss was caused by water to stock of dry
goods Mr.. Lane was carrying in one part of
the building.
There was fine attendance at the church
services last Sunday and Rev. Z. E. Col
burn gave two very excellent addresses.
Mrs. F. W. Barker of Amesbury, Mass,
ing feature of the day. Her husband was
stationed here two years and Mrs. Barker is
great favorite of the Brooks people,
Mrs Flora Frost died suddenly Sunday
morning at the home of her parents, MI.
and Mrs. Cilley. She had been in poor
health all summer, but was thought to be
gaining, and her death came as a great
shock to relatives and friends She was
the wife of John Frost, the well known CON
home was in Burnham, but Mrs. Frost as
girl lived Brooks.
The contract for building the receiving
tomb Is let but the Knowlton road still goes
a-begging: 1t is a curious condition of
affairs when the men of little town like
this are all so busy that the chance to earn
$500 is no inducement to them. The select
men will probably tackle the job next week
for daylight is going to be let through Eben
Princes sheep pasture into the town of
Knox, sure as you are born.
Three Brooks school teachers are under
obligations to Almon S. Forbes, our restless
nonogenarian, who must have work to keep
him busy in the stormy as well as fair
weather. lie brought home three very
nice hickory pointers of his own make from
Connecticut last spring. They are just the
thing for blackboard exercises and are
''daisies" for the sometimes necessary tun-
ing operations of the school room, and Mrs
A. B. Payson, Grace E. Dow and Mabel
Rose hereby express to him their thanks
for them.
hoped that every person in town OF suitable
age and requirements will be enrolled in
its membership. The town has at consider
able trouble and expense fitted up rooms
that are second to none in Waldo county
for this purpose. They have procured
mendations are gilt-edged. In fact, the citi-
zens of this town have at last cheerfully
and enthusiastically established excellent
high school privileges, positively free to
every boy and girl in Brooks. This OPP
portunity is not one to be carelessly slight
Cu' W. upoii GAC pdIcHUS dllu Gu0
young people themselves the Importance of
graspiDg the privilege thus freely offered.
A few months, so few, it seems afterwards,
often change the whole current and the
life destiny of a boy or girl. Parents, get
your children into that school in spite of
any and every obstacle that may seem to
be in the way. The present is golden OPP
portunity.
BEssEY-DOw. A very pleasing event
took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs
Marcellus j. Dow of Brooks, Wednesday
evening, Aug. 23d, when their daughter,
Alice Lucelia, was united in marriage to
Earle DuttOn BesSey, youngest son of
Charles F. Bessey. The groom is a gradu-
ate of NJ G. l., Pittsfeld, and of Bates col
lege, class of 1905. where he obtained the
degree of A. b., while the bride is gradu-
ate of NJ. c L., and has been popular and
successful milliner here for several years.
The wedding, which was attended by only
the immediate relatives, occurred at I D. m.
They were attended by Charles Bessey, I'd,
a cousin of the groom, and Grace f. Dow,
the brides sister. The bridal party enter
ed the parlor to the strains of the wedding
march played by Mrs. r. B. Hall of Water
vile, a cousin of the bride, and took their
places under wedding bell of white
flowers suspended from ropes of evergreen,
sively performed by Rev E. E, Colburn.
The bride was charmingly dressed in white
silk and carried bride roses, while the
bridesmaid wore white muslin and carried
pink sweet peas. The house was prettily