The Republican journal., 1908-04-23
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

John jenkins has moved from the Miller
house to the w. S. Jones rent
r. Fl. Hall is to build a new house this
season near the Shadrack Hall homestead.
Danford Place has the lumber sawed for
nice hen house which he is to bulld this
season.
C. A. Lane, our postmaster, has moved
his stable and will have it connected with
his house.
Chas. Hustus has sold the Noah G. john
son place where he has lived for several
years and will move out OF town.
Miss Bessie, daughter of Horace Roberts,
has been quite i'll for several weeks but is
now thought to be much better.
The Good Templar lodge had a pleasant
meeting last Saturday evening and are to
have supper in the near future.
Mrs. Grace Dow Bachelor has invested
i'm hens to some extent and has a flock of 16
Rhode Island Reds for sale. She seems to
prefer farm life to the store.
Mrs. E. A. Carpenter is quite i'll and has
taken to her bed. She is attended by MISS
R. NJ Hersom, trained nurse from Port
land The rest cure is to be tried.
Mrs Winsow, who las had charge of the
services by the Friends here for some
months past has gone to her home In New
Hampshire1or a rest and Miss Hafford has
come to take her place.
The milliners here have given us partic-
ular fits for practically excluding the gen
tlemen from their openings last week. Mrs
Merritt especially allows that the gentlemen
are always welcome there. Admission is
always free, what it will cost to get away
depends
Union Church was very beautifully
decorated with flowers and large congre-
CATION was present last Sunday afternoon
to listen to the Easter sermon by Rev. ). w:
Vaughan Special selections were rendered
by the choir and it proved to be very
pleasant service.
MAYNARD Stantial, son of b. F. Stantial,
is one of the smartest little boys in the VII
lage to work. He had been presented with
a small buck saw and this spring he work
wood that MIR. Dow had at his door. In
this he shows his breeding, for whatever
Stantial may be he is never lazy.
Some beautiful Easter lilies were among
the pulpit decorations at Union church last
Sunday and few realized that they were
artificial and the work OF an amateur, MISS
Thorndike of Brooks r. F. d., who was
visiting the family OF Capt. A. ii. Rose: we
understand that she eXces in work OF this
kind for which she has a passion.
Henry Cunningham has bought the Geo.
H. Miller place and will build blacksmith
shop ON the south part OF the lot. Mr.. Cum
ninghtn is a very quiet, industrious and re-
spectacle man ami we are glad to know
that he is to become one of our own citizens.
For the past two years he has done good
business here in the Jonathan Irving shop.
Mrs. Cunningham, who was known here as
Nav Miller, is much pleased to be again
settled in the home of her childhood.
The annual meeting of the Brooks Board
of Trade will be held May list. They are
an incorporated body. They have pur
chased buckets and ladders for the fire
company and now have one hundred dollars
in their treasury The town, at special
meeting, raised three hundred dollars for
building in which to store the fire apparatus
which will be increased to the proper
Quantity for the fire company. The work is
to be done under the direction of the Board
of Trade
The Sunday school Easter concert at
Union. church last Sunday evening was
very nice affair and reflected credit upon
both teachers and pupils. The program
was as follows: Singing in hymnal l04
scripture reading and prayer; singing III
hynnal 100; remarks, Rev: }. W.. vaughan
exercise, three girls singing, school, falr
Lilies - recitation, Hollis Jones; exercise,
Mrs. Merritt's class; recitation, Hester
Rose; recitation, Tom and Beulah COOK
song and chorus; recitation, Dorcas DAVIS;
exercises, Mrs. Cooks class; recitation,
Phyllis Reynolds; singing, school.