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The News of Brooks.

All roads lead to Brooks Memorial Day.
Edmund Young is still in poor health and IN
able to perform any labor.
Emery o. Stantial is putting in the crops on
the John M. Dow farm this season.
All school teachers and pupils from any
where are invited to march in the procession
Memorial Day.
Mrs. Rolfe and Mrs. Kilgore have opened
their ice cream parlor. They also serve light
lunches for ladies'.
Miss Gertrude Hogan of Thorndike passed
the weekend with Miss Erma Barker at the
Barker homestead.
The pasture of NJ j. Dow is being filled with
young stock and in few weeks they will be
as sleek as SO many deer.
Miss Edith Hobbs of Coburn Classical Insti-
tute manages to pass many week-ends with
her parents here, and often brings one of her
classmates home with her.
Mrs. Rose A. Cilley has at last succumbed to
the many troubles that have so long afflicted
her. 1t is a wonder that she has lived SO long.
The funeral, very quiet one by her request,
was held at her late home last Monday morn
ing. She had made every preparation for her
death and funeral before the last surgical
operation was performed. She leaves a hus-
band and an adopted son.
large and appreciative audience assembled
at the Congregational church last Sunday even
ing to listen to repetition of the lecture upon
South Africa by Rev. w. S. Carne. And all
seemed equally pleased, those who had heard
it once and those to whom it was entirely new.
Again we advise our Belfast friends, and 9TH
ers, to make arrangements to have Mr. Carne
deliver the lecture to them. They will find it
pleasant and profitable entertainment.
w. O. Estes took his place postmaster of
Brooks last Mon day morning. His daughter,
Inez A. Estes, will be assistant postmaster,
with Mrs Grace Dow Bachelor as clerk. The
postoffice employees gave to the retiring post
master Frank H. Lane, very nice watch fob
as testimonial of their respect Mr.. Lane
will now take up personally the work of set
Ting the estate of his father, the late Charles
E. Lane, as he and Mrs. Kate A. Lane were
appointed executors. Mr. Lane has been a
very pleasant and obging official.
Last Sunday was observed as Memorial Sum-
day at the Congregational church. The church
was beautifully decorated with flowers, and
the national colors were artistically displayed.
Hugh Merrill Christine Jones and Miss Stew
ems of the High school ,as the decorating COM
mittee, are to be congratulated upon their
work. A few men of the G. A. R. were in at
tendance and were given courteous and res
pectful attention. The members of Golden
Crown Lodge, X. of P. to the number of some
fifty acted as escort and with the ladies of
Silver Crown Lodge, Pythian Sisters, at
tended the services in body. The choir
furnished some beautiful selections, with
Mrs Lena Jones as organist. With all due
respect to the various eloquent ministers with
whom this church has been favored we are
ready to say that Rev. w. S. Carne gave US
| the most eloquent and appropriate memorial
sermon ever delivered there. The church was
| crowded and everyone was interested and
highly pleased. Next Saturday will be Memo
rial Day and every pains will be taken to make
| its observance in q proper way an assured sue
cess. At II o'clock the Sir Knights with their
ladies and guests of honor will have their din
ner in their banquet room. Later the Pythian
Sisters will serve dinner to all who may wish
J it, tickets to be obtained at the doors. Then
! the two cemeteries will be visited and the
F, usual exercises performed. All school teach
ers with their pupils are invited to join IN the
procession. the Knights to act as escort. At
the hall there will be singing, literary exer-
all be simple. quiet affair in accordance with
the aentiment of the OccaaiOn.