The Republican journal., 1909-06-17
The News Of Brooks.

Mrs. T. l. Huxford has returned from visit
with her son Norman in Portland.
Several of our people went to Thorndike
tuesday to the Congregational Conference.
Mrs. Abbie Mckay has returned from Bel
fast and is with her daughter, Mrs. Jesse C.
Forbes
Miss Clara York has returned to the York
Hotel from Monroe where she went to attend
the funeral Of her sister.
Miss Jennie Ford is in Brooks again this sum-
mer. Her health is not good just now and she
is not teaching this summer.
Miss Flora Tasker, teacher of the village
school, and Mrs. Jones of the Forest House in
Monroe, were in Brooks last Saturday.
Ice cream and bit of a social afterwards at
the Good Templar hall last Saturday evening
served to tighten up the occasion after the
routine work of the regular session.
Next Sunday evening Rev. S. j. Wilson will
deliver an address prepared for Children's day
and hopes to have as many present as were in
attendance last Sunday evening.
E. M. Gilman of Lowell has been visiting
friends in Brooks and Jackson. He was the
son of the late Enoch Gilman, lived here as a
boy, but had not been here for II years. He
finds some familiar faces, but the changes have
been many.
It is next to impossible for the farmers to
hire help by the day here. We still need a
number of houses built here, which can be
rented or sold at low price. So far there has
been at least two applicants for every building
in the place.
Harvest Home grange had strawberry fes-
tival last Monday evening. About one hun
bred people were in attendance. Three candi-
dates were initiated in the first degree. The
next meeting will be June 28th, after which the
, meetings will be called off for month
The outdoor service began promptly at 6
o'clock last Sunday evening, although there
were hardly a score of people present. but
before the close more than hundred people
had gathered around Rev. S. ]. Wilson, and the
occasion was as lively as typical Salvation
Army corps would have made it.
Mr.. and Mrs Albert Lord of Vassalboro have
been visiting friends in town. Mr.. Lord is a
brother of the late Charles Lord and Mrs. AL
bert Roberts is his daughter. For several
years he lived in the town of Knox, where the
family have many friends. They drove
through from Vassalboro with a team.
| Several legal luminaries of Waldo county
were at the Office of F. w. Brown, Esq., in this
village recently engrossed in some legal tussle
of more or less magnitude. Sheriff Carleton
was in attendance to serve the precepts; Judge
Wayland Knowlton served up the law, and F
A. Greer was on hand to fight anybody if the
fee was satisfactory.
We have waited to receive the program TO,
the children's entertainment at the Congrega.
tional church last Sunday evening, but as it
has failed to materialize we will say it was q
very pleasant and profitable occasion. The
church was well filled The children were
nicely dressed the church was beautifully
decorated with flowers, and the various parts
were well taken. 1t is occasions like these
which lead to take pride and satisfaction
in place where such affairs are the rule and
not the exception.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Jones returned Saturday
from Massachusetts, where they attended the
wedding of their niece, Miss Helen Blackstone
who on June 5th, at the home of her parents
in Bridgewater, was married to DR.. Frank Car
lyle of the Foxboro Institute. The bride is re-
ported to be an educated and highly accomplish
ed young lady, and the people of this vicinity
have a personal interest in the matter as her
parents were from here. Her father, Hollis
Blackstone, belonged to a family of posi-
ton in Freedom, and her mother, who was
known here as Miss Sarah F. Roberts, was in
her teens considered one of the brightest girls
and finest scholars in Brooks. The happy
couple have the best wishes of the friends of
the family here.