The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-06-06
The News of Brooks.

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Mr.. Dow is giving away the. Harmony Talk
ing Machine at his store.
Mrs. Frank ]. Wright, nee Miss Eva Green,
has been quite sick for several weeks.
Mrs. Edwin Cunningham of Swanville, with
her daughter Hazel, spent Memorial Day in
Brooks.
SGalen Forbes was able to take an auto no
bile ride last Tuesday and is more comfortable
than he has been.
Miss Drusila Roberts is still very ill. She
is attended by Mrs. Randall as nurse, assist
ed by Mrs. John McGray as housekeeper.
Mrs. VIM H. Rolfe has returned from Penn
sylvania and now Mr.. Rolfe wears pleasant
smile and goes about his business with an air
of contentment.
Frank Sullivan and family passed through
here last week on their return to Gardiner.
They have been with the Lawrence lumber
camps in Brooks and Frankfort since last fall.
A few potatoes are still being brought in, but
the crop is mostly marketed. Mr.. Dow is dis
posing of some of the two horse Rice Cultiva-
tors which help out in the cultivation of the
potato.
Hon. Herbert M. Heath and Mr.. Leigh of Au-
gusta spoke to an audience from the platform
Of Mr.. BOWS store one day last week. SAM
Connor of The Lewiston Journal was also in
the party.
Mrs. L. G. Cilley seems to be recovering
from the serious operation-the second she
has undergone--in very satisfactory way. It
is wonder that she is alive after what she
has endured.
Guy Patterson was quite severely injured
last Tuesday afternoon by being kicked by the
stallion used as one of pair of team horses
by the A. E. Chase Co. He was hit on one leg
and also in the stomach, making painful injury.
Brooks has lost two citizens of promise and
value to the town by the dsath, from tubercu-
losis, of John Jones and Wallace Ellis. Both
were under thirty years of age. Mr.. Jones
leaves widow and one child, Mr.. Ellis was
unmarried.
While at work in his mill Tuesday afternoon
F. K. Roberts was caught in lathe wheel and
his clothing wound up until the belt slipped
and he was able to save himself He was seri-
ously bruised, but luckily no bones were brok-
en- and by mere chance, it seems, lis life was
saved.
The friends Of Capt. Cheney Higgins were
delighted to see him at church last Sunday
after his serious and painful illness from ap-
ioif ua io L.
in this village, and he and Mrs. Higgins pro-
pose to spend a portion of the summer in
Northport.
Mr.. Cheney Higgins and wife returned from
Bangor last Monday. He is still weak and ill
from his hospital experience, but a soldier has
to be prepared for the unexpected and Capt.
Higgins is thank full that it is no worse Still,
it is somewhat singular that after thirty wears
in the regular army his first surgical treat
ment should have been endured after his re-
turn to private life.
Speaking of the operation of tracheotomy in
the streets of Belfast reminds US that few
years ago Doctor Darling performed the opera
ton on mare for L. A. Bachelor that was
worthless for business by reason of that
trouble, but which has since been valuable
animal for work. having survived two mates
and is now standing up fairly well with third
one.
MEMORIAL SERVICES There was a good at
tendance at the church last Sunday and the
G. A. R. men were well represented. Special
selections were sung by the choir and Rev H.
G. Booth gave sermon appropriate for the oc-
casion. For Memorial Day the Knights of
Pythias had made arrangements to do justice
to the occasion. They had nice dinner in
their banquet room for the veterans, the
Knights, the band, and their ladies'. The
marching at noon was mostly cut out because
of the storm, but the Knights with the band
did escort duty for the G. A. R. boys At the
hall, the stage of which was appropriately
decorated some two hundred people were in at
| tendance. Charles E. Lane presided The
Monroe band furnished music. The choir rem
dered several selections. W. S. Jones and
Mrs Marston Fogg favored the audience with
duet. Miss Phyllis Reynolds gave Lincoln's
address at Gettysburg, Herbert Bowdoin an
appropriate defamation, VIM. C. Rowe read
the roll of honor, and Percy Hasty. Esq, gave
an address. Everything passed off smooth Y
and pleasantly in spite of the rain, and we
congratulate ourselves upon the success of the
occasion.