The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-05-07
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

Boston.
j. W. Hobbs has had crowd at his FIRE
sale this week.
Miss Marion Reynolds is with MIS-. A. T..
| Chase for while.
Eben Prime is repairing the buildings on
| the John Small place.
Leander Staples has opened his harness
shop in the stable of f. &. Iasker
Peavey Bros. have cut up big pile OF
lumber at their place this spring
G. L. Morrill, spent Sunday with his fami-
ly. Hugh, his son, is quite SICK with a
Roscoe E. Weber has taken for wife
Miss Ethel Kenney, who is young and awful
| smart.
1t is said that Mrs. W. S. Reynolds has
bought the VIII Emmons stand on Emmons
street.
Misses Evelyn and Bessie Thompson, who
are employed in Belfast, spent Sunday with
| their friends here.
Mr. and Mrs S. L. Lord of Belfast spent
Sunday with Mrs. Lords parents, MIR. and
| Mrs. Chas Il. Forbes.
| Jennie McTaggart, as we used to call her,
is here from Dakota to visit her people and
the home Of her youth.
| The lots on our fire-raned district were
! surveyed last Monday for the proprletors
| by Messrs. Stiles and Fe)ker.
| Geo. Dickey and wife of Tyngsboro,
| Mass, have been in Brooks for some time
| visiting friends. They are both Old resi-
| Gents OF the town.
| The insurance companies nave settled
| with the parties who were burned out here,
| as we understand it, in very prompt ana
satisfactory manner.
Mrs. Sarah Edwards has been confined to
h er bed by sickness for several days
Henry Cunningham has also been contlned
to the house by illness.
Fitz H. A. Body called upon friends here
last Monday. He was formerly one of our
most prominent citizens and we were all
, glad to meet him again.
At the Good Templar Lodge last Satur-
day evening, in place of the literary enter
tainment, remarks were made by Rev. j. ".
Vaughan, Nj. j. Dow and others.
Rev. j. W. Vaughan made very interest
ing talk at the Union church last Sunday
evening. People who do not attend these
.rvices miss something they cannot afford to
lose.
Among the recent marriages is that OF
Perley Elwel and Eliza Simpson. They
can be counted as OF our very best young
people and everybody is pleased with the
match.
Geo. Roberts, who has been in Massachu-
sets for several years, having position ON
the elevated railway, was here last week.
He has rented his farm to viii Emmons for
this year.
Oscar Dow, who, it will be remembered,
was here with the family of Henry Dow
few years ago. is stopping with f. o: Stan
tai for awhile. Since he left here he has
been to sea and knocked around generally.
The rubbish is being cleared from the lots
of the burned buildings and the owners In
tend to rebuild at once. There should be
nice block erected there. 1t is question II
the several owners will unite to 40 1T. Stlll
there are various rumOrS of combinations III
the air.
Leander Staples, our harness man, went
back into his burning shop for valuable
finger ring which he had left in his desk
and which he priced from its associations
and came near getting badly slnged before
he got out again. He has sore on the back
of his neck to remind him of the risk he
took.
Ira W. Bowden celebrated May LIST by re-
turning to Maine from Florida, where he
spent the winter with his family consist
ing of wife, mother-in-law and two boys.
Mr. Bowden has spent several winters In
the south and seems to enjoy the change, as
his health is much better there during tnt
winter Mrs Leonard of Belfast, who &C
companied them, is hale and hearty and en-
loved the trip very much. 1t is fair to say,
however, that some of the parties who went
with them got sick of it and come home
long ago.
The Intermediate school, Miss Sawyer,
teacher, closed last Friday with literary
entertainment in the High school room.
The program was as follows:
Salutatory, Dorcas Davis
Flower exercise,
Ruth A., Myrtle H., Christine L., Hazel G.
including concert recitation by school
Recitation, "The Laggard, Willford Z;
"a Recipe for a Day." Hazel Hall
"My Garnet Ring" Christine j.
Robin song, 7girls
Ruth Ames
Drill. 8girls
Song, "Our Happy School Days" Blanche
Recitation, "Laugh a Little Bit, Alice
Reading, ga Queer Way of Fishing"
Everett
Valedictory, Della
Song, America" All
School cheer,
Address by DR.. Cook, Supt. of schools.
An incident of our recent fire illustrates
the efficiency of the news departments of
| the present day. Mrs. A. j. Robertson OF
Newton Centre, Mass, formerly known in
| Brooks as Lizzie Dow, writes: cat O'Clock
| in the afternoon of your fire received the
scare of my life. Bert telephOned me from
| tho offioo in Rnston that no had inst read on