The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-04-02
The News Of Brooks.

Charles Gibbs Is wearing broad smile. 1t
is girl
DR.. A. E. Kilgore has been confined to the
house by illness.
Edmund B. Young is confined to the house.
He has been sick all winter.
week ago. but he is still confined to his bed.
Ellery Pendleton Of Islesboro has returned
home after visit with the f.mily Of c. A..
Lane.
Harry N. Brown has new horse from ID.
West of Belfast which he hopes will come out
all right.
Simeon Lsmphire has been dangerously i'll
for some time and the chances are against bis
recovery.
Mrs. Eben Prime has made visit of several
days with her sister in. law, Mrs. Maria Bailey
of Waldo.
The Cnas. E. Bowen house is nearly clap
boarded and work will be pushed on it now the
warm weather has begun.
Mrs. Charles E. Lane went to Aroostook
county Tuesday to attend to some business
relating to her late husbands estate.
Mrs. Mark Pease spent the eek-end with
her father and family in Belfast. Mrs Pease
is preparing to build nice house and stable at
the old homestead this summer.
Mrs. Frarces Merritt has returned from a
business trip to Boston and the millinery shop
will soon be hunmipg. Her son Raymond,
who is a student at Hebron Academy, made
the trip with her.
We were glad to meet Arnold Dodge of Troy
who was calling upon the people of this village
last Saturday upon business proposition His
father, Doctor M. 7. Dodge, was friend
W HON we highly esteemed and we are pleased
to make the personal acqusints nee of his son.
Mrs. Augustus Ward has presented her hus-
band with nice baby girl. As girl Mrs.
Ward spent all her life on this corner. where
she was much loved and appre ciated, ard we
have missed her much here. The best wishes
of her many friends follow her to her new
home.
A very serious accident happened to John
Abbott last Monday. While saving wood with
an engine saw he had enc hand nearly severed
at the wrist. One bone was cut off and the
other partly SO. He was hustled to the village
in double quick time and the wound treated by
DR.. A. E. KilRore. 1t is yet hoped that the
hand may be saved.
The Republican town committee met at the
freman's hall Tuesday afternoon, March 31st.
and elected N. R. Cook chairman and Walter
H. Young secretary. The committee is E. C.
Holbrook, A. B. Payson. F. R. York, A. o. Pay
son, F. L. Emmons, T. 1. Huxford, Charles w.
Ryder. The following were elected delegates
to the State convention: F. R. York. M. ].
Dow. Walter H. Young: alternates. Henry
Reynolds, o. W. Lane, A. B. Payson.
We seem to be handling government job in
a small way in Brooks just now. Isaiah Crow
ell, whom we claim socially and in business
way although he lives en- the side of Monroe,
has taken the contract from the State Forest
Commissioner to build twenty houses for the
fire protective service. They are to be finished
here and shipped, knocked down, all ready to
to be set up where wanted. Mr.. Crowell has
the lumber all ready for the job.
Hall March 31st. A. B. Payson was elected
moderator. 1t was an day session and sew
eral articles were considered, but the special
object was to arrange for the building of
schoolhouse. II was voted to buy the George
Ryder lot on Emmons street for $500, about
acres, and to put up building to cost some
$4,000, to accommodate all the pupils of the
ing. All seemed interested in the prosperity
OF the town. This marks new advance in the
social, intellectual and financial prosperity of
Brooks. More than ever people who come to
Brooks will want to stay here.
Several fine cows were recently bought and
later sold by Mr.. Harry Staples.
VIM. Rolfe and wife spent the weekend in
Unity, guests of Miss Whitehouse and Others
Hugh Morrill, has gone to Massachusetts to
visit the family of Mr.. Barker. former pas
tor of Brooks.
Rev. Charles Harbutt of Portland preached
at the Congregational church last Sunday
afternoon and evening.
Alfred Huxford has improved SO that all
pleasant days he spends in the open air. his
cot being placed on the porch.
A 9-pound boy arrived in the family of Leroy
Roberts and wife March 26th. They are stop
ping at the home of Mrs. Roberts parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Noyes Cilley, for some time.
Mr. Charles F. Shaw expresses his gratitude
and deep appreciation to the employees of the
Gordon clothing mandatory for the beauti
full flowers sent at the death of his wife, Annie
Gordon Shaw.
= Thirty eight members of the Ladies Aid met
at the home of Mrs. Ezra Carpenter on
Wednesday last. Delicate refreshments of
welsh rabbit were served, and the afternoon
passed in social chat over their sewing, and
chapters were read from the book by Joseph
C. Lincoln. Keziah Coffin, to the amusement of
all.
The question agita ting all minds at present
is the selection Of suitable lot for the erec
ton of the proposed new school building. At
present we are greatly Inconvenience by the
loss of the schoolhouse and all its properties
by fire. REGULATIONS of some classes are held
temporarily in the primary school building, the
teacher of that school, Miss Mabel Rose, beirg
confined for some weeks to the house with
bronchitis