The Republican journal., 1909-01-14
The News of Brooks.

The News of Brooks.
Mrs. Hattie Rowe is with friends in Belfast
for time.
Norman McTaggart has had another i'll turn
and is now confined to his bed
Here we are in Maine January 18th with
mud and slop. The ground is entirely bare of
snow.
Elmer Thompson of Lowell, Mass, son Of
geo. A, thompson of this town, is visiting
friends here.
W. H. Rolfe was confined to the house sew
e'ai ga IS last week by sickness, very unusual
thing for him.
Mrs. Hannah Hamlin, who is with the family
OF Otls L. Hamlin, is confined to her room and
her bed most of the time
Z. A. Carpenter was at home to spend Sun
DAY with his family. His duties as salesman
keep MIN on the road most of the time.
They had supper and a social at the Good
Iemplar Lodge last Monday evening Two
plays are now being rehearsed for the lodge.
Josephine Lane, who has been spending
few weeks in Philadelphia, is now visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. @. w. Lane of this vii
lage.
Miss Drusia Roberts has been quite sick and
nurse from Portland has been in attendance.
She is much better now and Miss Agnes Ellis
is taking care of her.
The friends of Rev. Mrs. Winsow were
pleased to meet her son Arthur, who visited
her recently. He is a nice looking fellow. a
graduate of Oak Grove Seminary and will enter
college next autumn
Alfred Reynolds is making business hum at
the old Isaac G. Reynolds place, which he has
bought. He cannot keep away from this viii
lage, however, and some of the Young ladies'
know the reason why.
ike" our jumper man, whom most every
body IN Waldo county has bought something of,
has been confined to the house for some DAYS
by neuralgia and rheumatism. 1t is a long.
dull day for him when he cannot get to the
shop.
One of the courageous school MAINS of
Brooks is Miss Erma Barker, who walked some
three miles to her school the other morning as
her horse was not shod in condition to drive
over the ice and she makes it point never to
be late at school.
One of the recent marriages which we have
not mentioned is that of Merton w, Gibbs and
Miss Hattie Work. They will move to the
Calvin Work place in Jackson and try their
luck at farming. Miss Work was one of the
class of B. H. S. 'OS.
A very pleasant surprise was afforded Mrs.
W: II. Rolfe at the annual installation of the
officersssof the of E. S. it being the presenta-
ton OF an emblem of the order in the form of a
page IN collar PIN IN recognition of her
faithful and efficient service for a long time as
an officer of the lodge.
We recently received from Joseph Higgins
OF lhofndike ms annual subscription for The
journal with the compliments of the season
He has long been a subscriber to it and is
constant reader Of all the news He was born
May ~, 1873, and is therefore SO years old. He
also voted for President in 1870 and he noticed
the items in regard to Mr. Ferguson, Almon S.
Forbes and other young old men of Waldo
county. Well, he has our best wishes and we
hope that he may for many years vet enioy
reading The Journal which he has taken for SO
many years.
AS before stated in these items comfort
able room has been fitted up in the engine
house which is kept warmed and lighted, the
intention being to make it club room for the
tre department, where, under the direction of
their officers, they may post themselves in the
theory and practice of their business. 1t is
proposed to make it to some extent a reading
room and literary society; at least that is what
some wish it to be. Mr.. John H. Gordon.
chairman of the Board of Trade, who has
taken much interest in this department, has
presented them with one hundred volumes as
q iioSASuo AoA q II is understood that
other books, papers or magazines from any
source Will be acceptable.
In recent issue of The journal we noticed
IN the correspondence from a neighbour g
town that Mr.. Blank or some other good fellow
had bought sleigh and a cow. The combina-
ton attracted our attention at once and we
were carried back to the DAYS when we did not
have to pull our pants up so high to get them
on as we do now, and when we had an ANNA |
| I~.a1,
used to have no end of fun in driving him.
Later, on visit to Nova Scotia we found that
IN one of the counties that it was the common
custom in the country districts to drive a
young animal hitched to cart or wagon, So
why not right here in Waldo county! We
Wonaer II mr.. Blank has not grappled with
that idea and is not going to give us a new H.
lustration of an old custom born of necessity-
perhaps; and if we are not to have a revival of
that primitive form of Transportation. Here
the county is full of cows and we are import
ing horses In droves to 90 our work and pull US
on the road. With Roy Libby to pick up the
COW Eoadsters for Gamers and Mark Pease to
export the veals there is new phase of af-
fairs put into the business.of agriculture in
Waldo county. When horse fails up now the
only thing left to do is to bury him or sell
the body to Mont Davis for hen meat but with
a COW II IS alHerent- They can be fatted for
beet and at the same time do considerable road
work. We would respectfully call the atten-
ton of the Hon. Ed. Evans to this matter ann
would modestly inquire if this subject is not O.
Importance enough to be made topic for dis
eusslon in the Pomona Grange. Who knows
but what with the proper agitation of the sub
Ject, it may not be common thing to see
COW and sleigh tethered to the htching post in
front of the grocery store while the satisfied
owner of the outfit is inside discussing the
conditions that may improve the business of
agriculture in the county?