The Republican journal., 1909-02-04
The News of Brooks.

Mrs. Charles Ryder is still very sick.
Come and see the red-headed coon at Union
| Hall tomorrow night
Charles G. Roberts and wife have the SYM
pathy of the community in the loss of their
| infant son which occurred last week.
Capt J. W. Bennett and wife of Portland
came to town Tuesday to attend the funeral of
their grandson.
The pupils of the High School will have
Lincoln Exercises both afternoon and even
| ing, February 18th.
The reserved seats at Union Hall for Friday
evening February 5th, when the firemen are
/ to present their minstrel show, were all sold
long ago. 1t is expected to be the best enter
tainment of the kind for the season.
Golden Crown lodge X. of P. had lunch
! and smoke talk Tuesday evening. They have
voted to have their installation on Tuesday,
February 18th, with supper and social oc-
casion, the Sisterhood being invited to attend
Rev. Mrs Winslow who has been with the
Friends society in Brooks for nearly two
years, has gone to Massachusetts for months
vacation. She has been a Jealous worker and
is generally liked and most highly appreciated
here.
Services were held at the Congregational
church last Sunday afternoon. The roads were
badly drifted but as Rev. Mr.. Wilson of Bangor
was in the place, teams were provided to take
the ladies to the church and fair attendance
was the result. There were services in the
evening also.
Mrs. Phoebe Reynolds, widow of the late
Hon. Isaac G. Reynolds, who sold the old farm
at South Brooks and moved to the village, is
very much pleased with her neat and COM
Portable cottage here. Her health is not good
/ this winter but she manages to get out to
church and to call upon friends occasionally
The special entertainment of last week, so
far as the young people were concerned was
that given at the Congregational church Fri
day evening. 1t was given by the girls of Mrs
| Frances Merrtts class in the Sunday school,
There were two dialogues, some class songs
and social with refreshments, all under the
direction of Mrs Merritt
| We were sorry to learn of the very serious
! illness of Mrs. Katrina Bryant of Freedom
wife of our friend George Bryant, county COM
| missioner. Her mother, who a native of
/ this town and who spent her childhood here,
was known to US all as Miss Inez feathers, but
is now resident of Billerica, Mass, where her
! husband, Benjamin Harding, formerly of Troy,
| is principal of the High school.
! The many friends of Mrs. Vesta \. Higgins,
I now in the Philippines receive her personal
letters with pleasure and are also pleased to
| read her various contributions to The Republi-
| can Journal. She was for some years resi-
| dent of this village and we have high opinion
! of her ability as writer and also of her at
tractive qualities in social way. When her
! soldier husband retires from the service we
expect to again have them as residents of this
place.
Miss Lizzie Hasty has been spending few
weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
| Hasty. She has been from home for several
years most of the time having employment as
bookkeeper and typewriter with good posi-
I ton and fine salary. 1t is pleasure to her
! many friends to have her with US for a little
, time again, especially as it is known that she
has made a permanent engagement this time
; which will deprive US of her companionship in
the future as she will reside in another part of
the State.
! We meant to have said word last week in
regard to our friend and townsman IraiW Bow
den, who is spending the winter at Palatka,
Florida, as has been his custom for several
seasons. His health is quite good and the bad
cough which he had last fall has left him. We
had chance to sample some of the fine oranges
which he sent home to his family, quantities
of them being raised in his vicinity. He takes
The Journal and like many other men absent
from home is always anxious to read the
local news
Information has been received by friends
here of the marriage December 9th of
Eugene Emile Davis of Arizona and Miss
Gladys Walls of Lowell. Mr.. Davis boyhood
home was in Jackson and he later lived in
Brooks for several years, working in the vest
shops, going from here to Lowell, Mass. Some
six years ago he went west to see the country
and finally settled on ranch in the Salt River
Valley, Arizona, which he thinks the finest
climate on earth.