The Republican journal., 1914-01-01
THE NEWS OF BROOKS.

FRANK fOess one OF our Oldest cltizenss nAd
very sick spell last week.
Miss Lila Estes. who is with firm in Lew
| iston. csme home for the holidays.
S.H. Lord and wife of Belfast spent Christ
mas with A. 3. Payson and wife.
The Grange is having literary contest now
and the meetings are made interesting.
! Thirza Twombly.as we call her. has been Wis
iting her mother, Mrs. Fanny. Twomby.
The schools. which have been closed for the
holiday vacation. will start up next Monday.
Charles Il. Forbes, who has been travelling
| ON business in Vermont, came home for the
holidays.
An entertainment for the children was held
in the vestry of the Congregational Church
Christmas eve.
| The Sunday evening services are made very
interesting, being principally song service.
with short address by the pastor.
Mr.. and Mss. A. B. Stantial of Belfast called
on friends in Brooks last Saturday, and incl
dentially enjoyed nice sleigh ride.
We now have snow plenty and all travel
is with runners. 1t held off for long time.as
there was no sleighing before Christmas.
Alfred R. Huxford is in poor health jus. now
and is not trying to attend to. business for
awhile, hoping to come out tough in the spring.
| Miss Georgia Works. who for some years has
had employment in Bingham with business
| firm spent the holidays with her mother. Mrs
Joseph N. CHM.
| Mrs. Frank Gibbs who was an invalid nearly
| all last year, is now very much improved In
health, and attended the Maccabee's ball last
week as a spectator.
Merton Fogg has bought Of R. A. Hall quite
tract of land within the village limits. and it
will probably be cut up into house lots and
new streets constructed across it.
At parish meeting held last Saturday even
act as pastor of the Congregational church in
place Of Rev. H. G. Booth resigned.
Among the recent marriages is that Of Mr..
Herbert Hamlin and Mrs. Jennie York, both of
whom have long lived in Brooks. They will
now reside in Knox, where Mr.. Hamlin has
nice farm.
| Young & Cox are having closing out sale
and are receiving lib eral patronage. Mr.
Dow also has marked down sale of left over
holiday goods. Our people can save money by
trading in Brooks instead of in Chicago.
Golden Crown lodge, K. of P, are having
work now and enjoy lunch after, as CUSTOM
airy during the winter months. They are also
making arrangements for their annual ball,
which will be held in few weeks. and are in
terested in the jubilee exercises to be held by
the order in February.
The recent entertainment of "The Corner
Grocer" given by the teacher and pupils of
the High school. was in every way success
Financially it netted them over $40. Union
Hall was packed with an interested and appre-
ciative audience. The parts were generally
well taken. Mr.. Norwood. the teacher, was
host in himself. The High school pupils of
Belfast may be interested to know that their
old schoolmate, Miss Doris Roberts, received
many compliments upon her make up and rem
dering of the part of "the girl from the Poor
House."
| Ruth Ames, who for some years has been an
invalid, is in some respects much improved in
health. She can occupy herself in reading and
in fancy work, and enjoys the company Of her
young friends. She is taken out to some of
the entertainments and is interested in them.
But she cannot walk without crutches and has
little use of her lower limbs. She was a very
bright child and it is a lamentable case. There
are two other similar cases in town, supp osed
to be spinal meningitis, and it is said to be
quite prevalent in many sections of the coun-
try and hard problem for the physicians
to cure.
A very serious confagration was barely
averted last Saturday evening. John Man.
nucia, our barber, had just turned out his lights
and locked the door when one of the lamps fell
to the floor, spillng the oil about. which the
still Pickering flame instantly ignited and
blaze was on at once. There was plenty of
help in the Cox & Young store, and snow and
water were handy, SO the fire was stopped at
the beginning, it being closely celed room.
Quite smoke was created and Mr.. Mannucia's
goods were seriously injured. If the fire had
not been quickly extinguished the whole block
would have gone. as it is Of wood and filled
with infammable materials.
The annual ball of the Brooks Maccabees
Wednesday evening, Dec. oath. was q well
attended and pleasant affair. The special
train brought good crowd from Belfast, and
Reyes orchestra furnished the music. A good
supper was furnished at midnight The hall
was finely lighted by the J. H. Ames Co. of
Bowdoinham as an advertisement for their
Dreadnaught lamps, which make a brilliant
white light from common kerosene. Two lamps
did the business for the entire hall and they
were highly complimented J. L. Ames Jr.,
represented the company, assisted by M. J.
Dow, who is the local agent and sells the
lamps, with which everyone seemed delighted.
We are fortunate in having nice public
library in town, for few months at least, and
it is free under the usual restrictions to every
resident of the town. Mrs, Grace Dow Bach
elder, our Superintendent of schools, represented
the matter to Payson Smith with the special
object of assisting the pupils of our schools
and was fortunate in obtaining library con-
tanning, it is said, many interesting and valu-
able books 1t is to be hoped that our citizens
will take an interest in it and patronize it