The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-04-29
The News of Brooks.

Mrs. C. O. Goodwin has returned from trip
to Portland y
Mr.. Chas. O. Goodwin has position in the
Brooks post office.
W. S. Jones, L. A. Bachelor and several
others in town have been sick in bed with
what seems to be the grip
Mr.. Charles Fogg has returned to Brooks to
stay and we are pleased to claim him for per-
manent resident of the town.
NJ. J. Dow recently received several hundred
dollars worth of summer goods and has
his usual good line of merchandise
The Good Templar Lodge had supper and a
social time last Saturday evening. The officers
will be installed next Saturday evening.
The first honk of an automobile for the sea-
son was heard here last Saturday, when John
H Gordon got out his car for trial run about
town.
Mr.. Allard Ciley was here recently and
called friends. He is now located at Bing-
ham, where he has charge of a section on the
Somerset railroad
Miss Lizzie Larrabee, who spent the win
ter with Mrs. H. L. Peavey, went to Morrill,
last Sunday, where her parents are. She will
attend school there
Miss Georgia Works and Miss Lila Estes have
returned from Waterville, where they gradu-
ated from the Business College. They are
now ready for position
Bert Lane had the misfortune to lose his
driving horse last week in peculiar way He
was standing in front of the post office as a
team was driving by, and feeling well and
friskv he jumped up and come down hard
enough on the ground to splinter his fore leg.
1t was an old horse, but he was kept slick and
fat as colt.
OBITUARY. The death Of Mrs. Mary A Hall
at the residence of her son Wilfred in Fair
field, where she had spent the winter, removes
another of the lifelong residents of this
town. She was born here in 1881, the daugh-
ter of George and Mary A. Bassick. She mar
ried Shadrack Hall of this place about fifty
years ago and they had always lived in what is
known as the Hall homestead. Mr.. Hall died
two years ago and Mrs. Hall has been in poor
health for several years. They had seven
children, three of whom died while young.
She leaves four sons--George, who lives in
Lowell Mass; Charles and Wilfred, who live
in Fairfield, and R. A. who has made his home
on the old homestead. She had been for many
years a member of the Free Baptist church
and both she and her husband were regular at
PENDANTS at the meetings. The funeral SER
vices were held at the late home of the de-
ceased April goth, Rev. David Bracket offciat-
ing, with singing by Lillian Swift, Lena Jones
and c. o.. Goodwin. The floral pieces by the
relatives and friends were appropriate and
abundant. The bearers were W. H. H. Rob-
erts, M. J. Dow, C. E. Bowen and E. A. Car
penter. The interment was in the new ceme-
terry.
Although we are very busy this morning we
feel that we must make little mention of our
friend, Levi Stevens, who is special high push
er at the A. E. Chase store and whose agree.
able ways engage the attention especially of
| the feminine portion of this village, and whose
| continued absence from church and Sunday
school is cause of regret to all interested
ones He was again located last Sunday on
Oak Hill and great was the CONSERVATION here
But we have, as we think, arrived at ionsolut