The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1920-11-25
BROOKS.

Mrs. w. E. Luce spent several days in
Newburs recently.
Miss Laura Jones was the weekend
guest of relatives in Belfast.
Mrs. H. H. Webb and Mrs. G. C. God.
dard were business callers in Waterville
Saturday.
Mr.. Hamilton E. Jenkens is at work
for the Brooks Grain & Feed Co. in their
store here.
Miss Clara Hammons of Belfast was
the weekend guest of the Misses Thelma
and Theoda Plummer.
Mrs. Sadie Cummings of Waldo spent
the week end with her nephew, VIM. C.
Patterson, and family.
Mr.. Emery Merrithew has taken the
county agency for the Sears, Roebuck
Co. Silvertone phonoaraphs.
Miss Ethel Cochrane of Frankfort, who
is teaching in Waldo, spent the weekend
with P. H. Grant and family.
Albert R. Pilley left on Monday of last
week for Indian Pond, where he will
spend several Gays deer hunting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mckinney of
Winterport were callers at the home of
their niece, Mrs. G. E. Morrill,, Sunday.
Mr.. John Knowlton, our successful deer
hunter, does not need to 60 up-river hunt
ing deer as he gets his here in Brooks,
having shot one last week.
Ray and Earle Bowden left last week
for Palatka, Fla, where they will spend
the winter. Their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ira W. Bowden, will join them later.
The citizens of Brooks showed their
public spirit recently when they turned
out two days, men and teams, and built
fine sidewalk from the central school to
Main street.
Black & Gay Canneries, Inc, of Rock
land, closed their canning factory here
last week after very successful season.
over fifty thousand gallons of canned APP
pies being shipped from here.
| The Junior class of B. H. S. held a
whist party in Union Hall Monday even
ing. Doughnuts, hot coffee, ice cream
and candy, were on sale. The net pro-
ceeds were little over eleven dollars.
The many friends of Mrs. W. C. Sturte-
want, who has been ill for several weeks,
are glad to see her on the streets once
more and able to resume her duties as
teacher in the lower grade school here
Tinker's famous singing orchestra of
Boston played for concert and dance at
Crockett Co.'s Theatre last Friday night.
| Owing to the weather and the travelling
the attendance was small, but the music
was pronounced by the dancing public as
the best that has been here.
The school department of Brooks is
using one of the Wayne school cars being
tried out in different sections of the State
by the State Department of Education.
This one is a two-horse car which will
accommodate 20 to Is children. 1t is
now carrying II children on six mile
route. Driver and children are accom-
modated inside, protected from the
weather. There is heater which will
make the car very comfortable in cold
weather.
Last Saturday night at Crockett Co. s
Theatre was shown one of the best five
reel pictures that has been seen here for
months. 1t featured the famous actor
Wallace Reid in Hawthorne of the U. S.
A." and it certainly was hummer from
the first reel to the finish, showing WAL
lace at his very best in the person of
Hawthorne of the good old U. S. A., and
held the interest of the picture-g oers as
no other picture has ever done. The 10th
| episode of "The Moon Riders was also
| shown and the regular news film.