The Republican journal., 1907-08-01
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Will Emery and wife of SomerviIle, Mass.
| are spending part of their vacation here
with Mrs. Mittie Reynolds.
Samuel Edwards of Winthrop, who passed
his schoolboy days in Brooks, is stopping
| with friends in town for few days.
Mr.. Charles N. S. Rich OF Boston is spend
ing his vacation at the Francis NJ. Forbes
homestead. His musical ability has render
ed him very acceptable guest in the town.
James Grover, one of our best known
| citizens, who was quite sick a year ago but
who recovered sufficiently to attend to busi-
ness, has suffered a relapse and is now sick
| in bed.
| B. c. Nichols, who has been teaching in
Florida for the past "a years, is visiting
Maine and called upon his old time-friend,
| NJ. j. Dow, last week. They were both
teachers in Searsport in 1873 and boarded
| together.
j. G. Simpson and wife are rejoicing in
the birth of another son, born few weeks
| ago. Their oldest son is long past his ma
| jority and they, by rights, might have been
grandparents long ago, so they are receiving
special congratulations.
The Good Templars are to have ice cream
and cake next Saturday evening, when the
annual installation of officers will take
place. The ladies are to furnish the cake
and the gentlemen to contribute to paying
for the ice cream.
Miss Marion Reynolds of Brooks was in
Iri md
her skill as ball pitcher. She is on record
as having thrown ball the greatest dis
tance OF any woman in the United States,
and she will meet any woman in America
under proper conditions to prove again her
claim.
We are not sure that notice has been given
in our Brooks news of the death of Mrs.
William McTaggart, which. occurred at the
home of her mother, Mrs. E. c. Boody of
this village, some two weeks ago, after a
long illness from consumption. She was
| the daughter of the late Horace Edwards of
this town and left three small children.
Regular services are held at the Friends
| chapel and several additions have been
made to the church membership. The meet
| ingsunder the direction OF. Friend Mrs. Wins
low have been made very interesting. 1t is
intended to have lecture in the near future
/ by a gentleman from outside upon the his
tory of the early Quakers, their principles
and their traditions, with some reference to
distinguished early members of the society.
The summer school for teachers closed
last Friday after very pleasant three
weeks session. The attendance was very
good and fine class of young ladies par
ticipated in the work. All were enthusi-
astic and declared that it had been an oe-
casion of much pleasure as well as of profit
to them. 1t is intended by the citizens of
the town to make this summer school
permanent feature of the place. 1t is
convenient location for a large number of
young people to congregate from the sur
| rounding towns, we have a nice schoolroom,
and really it is a desirable location for such
school. So it is now expected by both
State and local officials that school will be
held here next SUNNI er, and all can plan
accordingly. The instructors furnished for
the school were agreeable, accomplished,
ambitious to do good work and of stand
| ing in their profession that makes it mat
| ter of pride that we have been honored by
| personal association with them as the fol-
| lowing list will show Miss Cora B. Diliing-
ham of the Gorham Normal school, teacher
of History and English; Miss Elizabeth E.
! Thompson of Maiden, Mass, teacher of
Geography and Arithmetic; Miss Harriet
Abbott of Fryeburg, teacher of Nature !;
Miss Lillian Lincoln of Pennington Normal
school, teacher of Methods. Wednesday
evening reception was given to the in
structors and teachers at the home of DR. i.
n. K. Cook of the school board, which was
an informal and very pleasant affair.
| Thursday evening an entertainment was
| given at Union Hall, which was open to the
public. The stage had been beautifully
decorated with evergreen at the request and
to the taste of the Misses Dillingham; and
| Thompson and presented a lovely back
ground to the scene. The program was as
follows: instrumental solo, Miss Webb of
jackson; vocal solo, Miss Marian Wells of
! Belfast; vocal solo. Mr.. Rich of Boston
vocal solo, Miss Wells address, Hon. Pay
sou Smith, State Superintendent of Schools
vocal selection, male quartet, Rich, Nor
rill, Jones and Brown. Supt. of Schools,
E. q. Roberts, who presided, then an
nounced that the schoolroom above was
open and samples of the work of the pupils
might there be examined. The.work was
found to be very creditable to the young
teachers and their instructors. The exami-
nations and closing exercises were held
Friday.