The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-03-31
The News of Brooks.

Hill for the short vacation.
Raymond Merritt is at home from Hebron
Academy for short vacation.
R. A. Hall is to build stable this summer
and has made quite a beginning on it already
Will Emmons is to build house on the new
Gordon street and has the shed up and covered
now.
Bernard Staples is at home from Bango
having graduated from the business college
there.
James Wilkens, who for the past few years
has been living in Knox, is at Charles E. Bow
ems, quite sick.
Mrs. Hattie German has been at the hotel
caring for her daughter, Mrs. Audine Young,
who has been ill.
Mr.. Jesse c. Forbes, who for the past year
has occupied the 4. E. Kigore rent, has moved
back to West Brooks.
B. F. Stantal has decided to close out his
dry goods business here and will soon adver-
tse a discount sale.
The Union church service was held at the
Friends Chapel last Sunday evening, Rev.
Frank Jones presiding.
Mr.. B. H. Holmes has moved his family to
the Fred H. Brown house which was built
last fall on Emmons street.
Mrs. Dora Sanborn is in Massachusetts, visit
ing her son and other friends, and recent let
ter informs us that she is enjoying the trip
very much.
Mr.. Thomas Batchelder, who with his wife
spent the winter in Brooks, has taken place
in East Dixmont, and will move there as soon
as the roads are settled.
| Miss Flora Tasker, the teacher of the Mon
roe village school, has been in town the past
week, the guest of Mrs. W. S. Jones, Mrs. A..
B. Payson and other friends.
The Good Templars last Saturday evening
elected as delegates to the Grand Lodge to be
held in Waterville, April 18th and 18th, E. C..
Body, M. j. Dow, H. M. Brown, Mabel Rose,
May Huxford, and Grace Tasker.
M. c. Pease shipped the usual amount of
stock and hogs from here last Monday morn
ing. The hogs were reckoned at SO per cwt.,
which is probably as high as they ever brought
at this station. 1t is next to impossible to find
any young pigs in this vicinity
Last Wednesday evening the members of
Marsh River Lodge, No. 102, F. & A. NJ, held
their regular stated communication and did
work in the E. A. degree. District Deputy
Greeley of Liberty was in attendance and
favored the lodge with words of instruction,
encouragement and appreciation. After labor
the members repaired to the banquet room for
refreshments and found ian oyster supper in
readiness for them.
A GOLDEN WEDDING. On the 18th day of
March Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus G. W. Rose
formerly of Brooks, Me-, and Fitchburg, Mass,
observed the fiftieth anniversary of their mar
rage at the home of their second son, Newton
A., in North Amherst Mass, where they have
been spending the winter. The day was pass
ed quietly, as was their wish, with their child.
rem and their only grandchild gathered about
them. A niece, Miss Mabel Rose of Brooks
who luckily CHANGED to be visiting in Massa-
chusetts at the time, was also with them The
couple enjoy good health and their ambitions
and interests are as keen and their faculties Of
mind as discerning and sagacious as of yore
Augustus G. W. and Abby M. (Chase) Rose
were married in Belfast at the home of Mr.
Nathaniel Wiggin on Main street, whose wife
was sister of the bride, by the pastor of thu
Congregational church, Rev. Mr.. Parker Fol
the first two years of their welded life tn.
couple lived with the brides mother Mrs
Sarah Chase of Brooks, then recently widowed
At the end of that time they bought of tn,
late Geo. L. Bailey farm overlooking the vii
lage on the south, taking up their residenc,
there in the spring of 1862. AS their ndustr,
won for them prosperity they built a new
house and barn one half mile nearer the villap
on the same farm, occupying their new hom