The Republican journal., 1909-03-04
The News of Brooks.

MISS aaLLIe Cllley mas Oeen dangerously Ill
again.
E. A. Carpenter stopped over Monday to
take in the town meeting.
The masquerade ball February 18th was
success in numbers and costumes.
Norman son of Roscoe E. Weber, who has
been i'll with pneumonia, is convalescent.
Mrs. Mary Collier is with Mrs. l. G. Reynolds
since Mrs. Winslow went to Massachusetts,.
For the past week the roads were very icy
but the teams brought in large loads from out
side.
Cleveland Simpson, who has position in
Taunton, Mass, has been visiting relatives in
town.
Rev. Mr.. Wilson closed his course Of illus
trated Pilgrim Progress lectures last Sunday
evening.
Percy A. Hasty of Bangor is spending
few weeks here with his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
George Hasty.
Miss Jessie Peabody recently spent few
weeks in Brooks with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Peabody.
Mrs. Frances Merrill, the milliner, will go to
Boston next week to buy stock and post up on
the latest styles.
Burton Gibbs and wife are to have their re-
ception and dance in the G. A. R. hall this,
Thursday, evening.
Mrs. Mile Bailey of South Pennington,
Mass. is spending few weeks here with her
motbor Mrc phaha Raypol1S
Rev. David Bracket has recovered from his
illness of the early winter and is able to at
tend to his usual appointments.
Miss Lila Estes and Miss Georgia Works
came home from Watervile last Friday to
spend Sunday with their friends.
Mrs. Kate Decrow has been in Pittsfeld sew
eral weeks caring for her foster mother, Mrs.
Ansel Bracket, who is dangerously i'll.
T. l. Huxford has been sick in bed for the
past week with an acute attack of lumbago.
Mrs. Eliza Campbell is also confined to her
room by what threatened to be pneumonia
Brooks Good Templar lodge has over one
hundred members and is now the second larg-
est in the State 1t was for five or six con-
SeCtiVG years the SSSC louSe III lHS oldlS.
Last Sunday at the Friends Chapel Arthur
Winslow led the services in the morning and
Barley Jones in the evening. They both
under twenty years of age and come here from
the Oak Grove Institute to do the work Miss
Hafford will be here next Sunday.
1t is worth your while to look over the new
hen-house that 7. A. Elliot has built 1t is a
model in that line. He now has 500 hens and
is getting good lot of eggs. He bought the
Roscoe Edward place last fall and has spent
large sum in improvements. The house is
very nicely fitted and furnished.
The annual town meeting passed off very
pleasantly last Monday. The officers were
nearly all unanimously reelected, and are as
follows: Moderator, Chas. E. Lane; Clerk, Otis
W. Lane; Selectmen, E. c. Holbrook, R. A.
Jones. Riley Prime; school committee, A. E.
Kilgore; 7. l. Huxford, F. H. Quimby; treas
urer, c. 0. Varney; Collector, Joseph G. Stimp-
son; Road Commissioners, Stanley G. Roberts,
Alfred Reynolds, E. O. Stantial; trustees of
sinking fund, E. A. Carpenter, E. A. Kilgore,
John H. Gordon. The usual amounts of money
were raised. While there was discussion on
some questions everything was carried out in
harmony and with the best of feeling.
The Good Templars Lodge had very pleas
ant meeting last Saturday evening. They had
an initiation and after the recess the following
program was presented: music by orchestra,
Bert Lane, Frank Hobrook, Ned Edwards,
Will Lane, May Huxford; flute solo, Frank
uoIb h1,n b,,f
girls, Rotations marching by music and sing
ing; cornet solo, Ned Edwards; farce, "What
Humphrey Did, with the following cast:
Mrs. Humphrey, Belle Body
Miss Mason, 1nez johnson
Miss Merrill, Airline Estes
Mr.. Humphrey, M. j. Dow
Mr.. Williamson, Frank Holbrook
Sam, Bert Lane
John Williamson, Nelson Reynolds
Caleb Williamson, earle jenkins
What evidently is a fake appeared in
Brooks last Friday afternoon. At least, that
is what the Brooks people think it. The outfit
consists of rangy horse of a light-red color
hitched to decent sleigh and two men clad in
fur coats and muffled to the eyes, One is
claimed to be blind, and doubtless is. The
other asks charity for him at the houses along
the road and of people that they meet. They
strike a soft spot with the organization men
and work that racket when they can. They
touched some of the easy ones in this village
and said they were heading for Bangor, where
the older one was taking the blind man, as he
claimed. We learn that some days ago they
were working Unity, and up the line. They
should be rounded up and have the matter
settled. What right have they to be cumming
Waldo county in this way? They claimed here
to hail from Sidney, Maine.
Golden Crown Lodge, K. of p, had public
installation of their officers Tuesday evening,
February 2sd. The acting grand lodge officers
were Stillman D. Flood, G. c. c.; W. F. Langill,
Grand Prelate; Sam'l. Hodgkinson, Grand M. at
A.: Marcellus j. Dow, Grand v. C. The lodge |
officers were as follows: VIM. C. Austin, C. |
c.: Geo. w. Miller, v. c.; C. E. Bowen, M. of !
w., James F. Jewell, Prelate; T. l. Huxford,
M. of F.; A. B. Payson, M. of E.; j. E. Stimp-
son, K. of r. and G.; c. E. Lane, M at A.; L.
w. Cook, Guard; E. c. Holbrook. Sentinel.
Tasker's orchestra was in attendance and fur
nished music for the occasion. The orchestra