The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-08-05
The News of Brooks.

Mrs Marion Huxford is out of the hospital,
but is still in Portland
Mrs Geo. Ryder has returned from Portland
and seems to be in the way of a permanent
recovery from her trouble.
Galen Forbes is spending vacation at North
port for the benefit of his health. His place at
the farm is taken by Joseph Decrow.
Two of our young ladies were married re-
Gently: Miss Maud Webb to Mr.. Work of
Jackson and Miss Josephine McTaggart to
man in Madison.
Rev. Mr. Wilson and friends from the village
will be at the South Brooks schoolhouse next
Sunday at $50 p. If pleasant the meeting
may be held out of doors.
Mrs T. A. Elliott left at the farm one day
last week the most beautiful bouquet of pan
sizes we have seen this season. They have
nice place in this village now and nice things
around them, indoors and out.
1t is very quiet about the village during the
nice weather which we have been having, as
every one who can get out is in the hay field.
The crop here will be heavier than last year,
and so far has been harvested in fine condition
Help is scarce here, but teams and machinery
do much of the hardest work nowadays.
Friends of Rev Humphrey Small called upon
him last week upon the occasion of his Sind
birthday and rendered their congratulations
upon his good health and pleasant surroundings
nd left with him as a souvenir of the occasion
a. n%oi,, Tn, ma live
town, Brother Small has the love and respect
of every one.
A. E. Chase and family have returned from
their outing with their son Willard at Moose
Point. And, by the way, Willard came to
Brooks from Massachusetts, in his Stanley auto,
making the drive in about fourteen hours.
We well remember that as little boy he used
to have the times of his life when he could drive
about the country with the pony team his
father had furnished him. And as he whirled
about here this summer we have wondered if
he still remembered those happy days when
he was big enough to drive his pony team.
AS has been his custom all his life, M. J.
Dow, Esq, is spending the busy haying time at
the homestead farm, where clad in frock and
overalls he proudly handles the moving
machine over the fields which were cleared and
smoothed by members of the family during the
past sixty years. To many man the old
home has value far beyond its actual finan-
cial worth. 1t represents to him the hopes
and tears, the toll and privation, the courage
and honest ambition, of the father and mother
who Iabored for those they loved and whose
highest desire in life was for the little family
which had been given to their care. And to
those children, when their own locks perchance
are tinged with grey and their perspective is
turned to the past, every nook and corner is
alive with the memories of childhood days
when life seemed to be but one long summers
day.
Rufus Fitzgerald who conducts services at
the Friends Chapel, is very talented young
man from the south. We understand he is not
yet q years old which makes his ability all the
more conspicuous. He has of course much yet
to learn in practical work. AS he has been
several times mentioned in the papers it may
be well to say that the people here like him
very much and have faith in his honest, Chris
tian purpose. His remarks in Portland, which
have been severely criticised, may have been
exaggerated by the reporters. Atleast. we hope
SO, for although we are not all we might or
should be, yet we have local pride in our
people and aim to make ourselves subjects for
commentator in regard to social, intellectual
and moral qualifications. Really, while we
claim to have standing in those qualities
equal at least to towns of our class in any part
of the country, yet there is always room for
improvement in communities, as well as in i'm
dividuals, and if this incident leads US to more
careful observance of our duties as citizens and
as community the results may prove benef-
cial to us all. We should aim at civic integrity
and public righteousness, as well as in individ-
ual morality.
FOIEYSHONEYAbTAR