The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-01-13
The News of Brooks.


Lane block over the post office.
Frank, the little son of C. O. Goodwin, our as
sistant postmaster has been very i'll, but is
now much better.
Dexter Davis from the Good Will school
spent his Christmas here at home, or at least
he was here few days.
Raymond Merritt from Hebron Academy
passed the holidays here with his mother, Mrs.
Frances Merritt the popular milliner.
Fred Moulton hitched his pair to horsesled
the other evening and took load of people
over to the weekly prayer meeting at Will
Swifts.
Rev Samuel J. Wilson has much to his dis
gust, been obliged during the holidays to at
tend to frozen water pipes and other winter
troubles.
Mr. Dow has large stock of goods on hand
which he wishes to turn into cash and he will
put low prices on broken lots of odds and ends
for the month of January.
The Grange was obliged to defer the install
lation of officers until some evening after the
10th instead. Mrs. Ellis could not make a date
here until after that time.
small camp in the woods owned and &C.
cupied by Galen Forbes a part of the time was
burned last Saturday night. 1t is supposed to
be the work of some boys for malicious mis-
chief, and something more will doubtless be
heard of it.
Walter Gibbs is at home again. his friends
say from Bangor, and they joshing him on
his attraction for that burg and inventing all
sorts of stories in regard to it. But as long as
he can sell about so many tons of fertilizer
week he don't care what they say to him.
The Good Templars were out in goodly num-
bers last Saturday evening, and after the rou-
tine work they had the following program:
music by the orchestra; dialogue, Reading the
News" by Grace Tasker and viii Lane; music
by orchestra; dialogue, "a Proposal Airline
Estes and Robert Stiles; music by the orches-
ira.
Word was received here January 4th Of the
death of Wilfred B. Rich, former resident Of
Brooks his boyhood being passed here He was
a lawyer in Boston, and the funeral was at his
late home in Somerville, Mass, last Sunday.
He was the son of Ransom Rich and his
mother was a sister of the late Michael Chase
so that he has many relatives in this vicinity
and there are many here who were acquainted
with him as school boy. Further particulars
may be given later.
OBITUARY. Hester A. Leonard, wife Of the
late Geo ". Leonard and daughter Of Israel
and Hannah Smith, passed away December
22nd of pneumonia at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ira Bowden, where she was tenderly
cared for and loving hands ministered to her
needs. She was born in Winslow Me-, Novem-
Der IS, 1888, the youngest of four sisters. /
She was of cheerful disposition, faithful
wife and mother, and will be greatly missed by
relatives and friends. The funeral services
were held in Brooks, Sunday, December Goth, |
at 10 o'clock Rev. David Bracket conducting
the services. She leaves daughter, one sister
and two grandchildren to mourn their loss.
l sing because Pm happy,
l sing because Pm free,
For His eye is on the sparrow
And know he watches me-
The black horse Don, owned by M. ]. Dow, !
took it into his head to be frightened by some
thing at the station the other morning and cut
up some high jinks, throwing out his driver, G.
L. Morrill,, and somewhat bruising him and
smashing the sleigh against car, where he
was caught and held by T. l. Huxford. The
damage to the rigging was several dollars, but
luckily no one was seriously injured. But take
it the year around today in Maine and horse
team is about the most dangerous conveyance
to be taken. Will they be trained and bred out
of it or what is to be the outcome? Did you
ever notice that few horses care for bicycle
now? Few of them will notice it at all, while
twenty years ago many of them would be very
much frightened. 1t is the old horses that are
the most frightened of the automobiles now.