The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-09-07
The Brooks Centennial.
ADDITIONAL Notes from a Journal
Correspondent.

ADDITIONAL Notes from journal
~ Correspondent.
.,4 the large number who were
for Old Home week was James
s..,s ot Concord Junction, Mass. after
III. Years absence, and happy reunion
oeI5 among the Jones' family, |
wa Willard, Lot, and sisters, Mary |
GAMES s+ and Annette Harding.
rn,o very interesting features of Rob-
At. night. Aug. 10th. failed of mention
.rrcl7s descriptive of that evenings |
..,ts,oment held in Union Hall. which |
-. ,bs presence of Mr.. Frank Rey-
.l4s A.. the Roberts family, an expert
s..4 arrertainer of unusual merit,
.oss several selections were rendered
mn ,.ajtable manner, bringing shouts
ton9r-er from the convulsed audience.
y,trar better has been heard in Brooks
g.. many Years. Mrs. Barstowe of Ban
-,r aIsa delighted the immense gather
talented reader with much
dramatic AGILITY
rgj, poem was composed by our viii
.ga eYet If whom we are very proud
on, Sarah Haskell, whose mother was
gopert. Aunt Sarah is over so years
Fl. s-e sau has been very nearly blind
FIR asry years, but no one with the full
sss Of The eyesight is better equipped
wifi knowledge concerning all the cur
rar, events of the day. She is most
sb- AMI interesting conversationalist,
gg;a- re.uembers- with that wonderful
men5ry Of hers-everything read to her
by 1s. devoted friend, Mary Staples,
With whom she has home. Aunt Sarah
bas decided talent for rhyming and has
composed many little gems which should
be Dut INTO book form. Mrs. Staples
real this poem at Union Hall on Roberts
night Aug. 10th:
BROOKS CENTENNIAL.
Dove ever pause to think that one hundred
Years ago
Where many prosperous homes now stand,
Before the woodsman's axe had laid them low,
Vast forest trees lowered high on every
hand
Mid creatures found home beneath their
shade.
las .sar his den, the fleet deer bounded free,
While near their secret hiding place young
fixes played,
4al birds sang DER their songs on bush and
nee
8a-,z now dwell, the Indian might have
5vet
Cancel the river, watched it foam and flow,
"eesnn9t know the anger. pain, ne felt
pl leag 1g scenes he loved, hundred years
ago
lo.a'g backward over distant years
va t1lk what stress of fortune brought
ll' ancestors, those early pioneers,
81 uls then wild primeval spot.
"aser= their object or why they came,
u What hey left behind, we do not know.
"0a Us hey eft the Roberts name,
-6e oam they brought hundred years ago
I've beard IL Questioned why the name
III bfcoEs was chosen for the town.
Nsa.4ot hey thought, or hoped, the fame
y, 1ea Brooks would lend it some renown.
III t1using this centennial week, /
A21sf some may sneer, and some may |
tsau,
''Q been here, and asked to speak,
's1ould have named it Robertstown.
90 many share the Roberts name today,
Inc good Scotch name our grandsires bore,
Il hundred Years ago they say,
A0pndred years ago, or more.
ile grandslre, Joseph, never sought to win
part " wealth, nor yet a part of fame,
-'' 'nl wish, place to dwell wherein
lie might find comfort and earn an honest |
name
DN many sons and daughters fair,
p, 's named. and counted by the score.
'1 friends would aughingly declare
lucy numbered twenty-four.
q s'Ou Old Bible number twice was wed.
iHe Hfst her name l now forget,
''' 'nlnk as long the past tread
we Was called Aunt Margaret.
s'aaaslre Jonathan we little know
If, record from the past we cannot lure,
s'' -he world so many years ago
-' memory, life, and work are quite OBJ
scure.
'''' ne was wise and good, who is there now
to tell.
"nal qualities of heart, and mind did he
POSSESS?
-, II, 'ing we know. and know it well,
1t never felt Dame Fortunes warm caress.
~, Was DIS purse, and small hs family,
b e5 scarce exceeded half dozen,
Pefehed on every branch of our ancestral
tree
Nne moves on we doubtless find
cousin,
names, or what they are. or where they
dwell,
~. ''' or far, by mountain. lake. or sea,
NNker voice than mine must tell,
NNe learn and 70 kho;r |