The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-02-27
The NEWS OF BROOKS.

Meetings are held every evening at the
Friends Chapel.
2. B. Clifford, who has been very SICK Tor
the past month, is able to be about the
| house.
Alfred Huxford came from Portland last
Saturday to spend Sunday in Brooks. He
is siad to be doing well in Portland.
w. II. Rolfe and wife have moved into
| the G, l.. Morrill, house to be company for
Mrs. Morrill, while her husband is away on
the road.
Willard F. Chase, wife and son, OF Bos-
| ton are visiting the family of A. E. Chase.
Marie is still here and Mrs. Chase is very
much improved.
| Carrie Felker, as we used to call her, has
come from California to spend few weeks
with her sister, Mrs. Eliza Leathers, who
has been very i'll but now seems to be bet
/ ter.
The entertainment given by the Good
Templars lodge was pleasant occasion
and success financially. The officers Will
be installed next Saturday evening by j. Il.
Simpson, the l.. D.
1t is excellent sleighing in the country
now and the village is filled with teams.
| Potatoes bring 70 cents at the station. APP
pies and hay are brought in in large quaint
ties and the woodsmen are all busy.
Mrs. Sarah Townsend from Nevada called
upon friends here last week. She is the
| daughter of the late Samuel Gould and is
well remembered in Brooks and Belfast
She is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Maria
Bailey of Brooks, who accompanied her to
the village
| The attention of Waldo county is turned
to the mayoralty fight in the city Of Belfast.
That it is to be stubborn one every one
believes 1t really means, as we believe
more than the question of the official con-
troll of the city of Belfast. Indifference on
the part of her citizens is no less than crimi-
nal neglect.
| Town meeting next Monday, when the
various momentous town questions Will DC
threshed out There will be little contest
| in regard to the offices. 1t is generally un'
derstood that the old board will be re-elect-
ed. They have done we'll and there is moth
ing to be gained by a change. Fred W.
Brown, Esq, the collector, has accomplished
what has not been done in the memory OF
the Oldest inhabitant. He had the entire
tax collected on the date set, Feb. 18th
and settled in full with the town treasurer.
On the evening of Feb. 18th Mr. and Mrs.
t,i, rtH, nf Won n
ladies who are of Mr.. Morrill's class in the
CONGREGATIONAL Sunday school. AS he is
about to take up work elsewhere the class
on this occasion presented him with hand-
somely bound book of poems, as token OF
their friendship, and as such the gilt Is
highly valued by him. This class numbers
sixteen of the brightest and best young
ladies of Brooks, in whom the village may
well take pride.
We would commend to the attention OF
the farmers of Waldo county the subject OF
the care of the forests. 1t is subject
which should be discussed in every grange.
1t is one in which every man with wood
lot should carefully consider. 1t is both
local and a National question. The waste
of the forests should be checked and their
preservation carefully looked after. 1t is a
matter of vast Importance and every atten-
ton should be given to it. One way to
materially aid Waldo county, if not to boom
it, is to care for the>crop that it takes
generation to grow. We should talk and
write and act.
The illustrated lecture given by E. II.
! Emery of the Civic League was well attend
ed and proved to be interesting as was
shown by the attention of the audience and
their comments upon it afterward. Rev.
Humphrey Small made most of the arrange
ments for the meeting and gave the matter
his personal support and endorsement. NJ.