Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-17

/ Maine Gossip
The Summer Shirt Waist.
Oh, peek-a-bOo
We all love you
OF summer you're chief attraction;
You half reveal
| And half conceal
The curves that drive us to distraction.
| Your meshes wide
But hardly hide
The dainty charms of rounded shoulders
| Your jaunty set
Makes us regret
The day must come when twill be colder
You WELD a view
OF ribbons blue
With soft and billowy garments blended.
Or else they're pink
But scarce. / think
Were they for mere mans gaze intended
Yet where's the harm?
They do but charm
And help to drive us to distractions;
Oh. peck-a-bOO
We all love you
You are the summers chief attraction!
Louisville Courier journal.
| Didn't that jar you, Saturday morn
ing?
| 1t was the most shocking experience
Maine has had for a long time.
| Perhaps it was the breaking of the
hot wave which caused all that rumble
and noise, Saturday morning.
| Some thought the earthquake was
the dynamite explosion at Kittery and
others thought the management was
giving the Augusta Trolley League
team shake-up.
| If either Russia or Japan has any
trouble getting peace commissioners
there are many good men right here
where the conference is to be held who
would gladly do their best for the 5000
per day which the commissioners are
to receive.
There is a fline-lock gun owned by
the Paris family of Paris which has
been in the family since 1860 and which
has been fired every fourth of July
since the Declaration of independence
was signed.
A sign in the window of a SkOwhe-
gan grocery reads: Fresh farmers
leggs" Another sign in the win low Ct
L. CT fhic
end, the final letter on here" having
peeled off the window: Candy made
her fresh every day."
The old Jail at York Village will be
a more attractive place than ever tC
visitors this summer in view of the
fact that many additional relics have
been deposited there since last year
The old Jail which was built in 1858 is
now open to visitors and its museum
of antiquities will furnish delightful
study for those who are interested ir
colonial history and find pleasure ir
the inspection of the various relics
which are contributed to this wonderful
collection.
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph L
jackson in Guilford at which 80 per-
sons were present. including their II
children and II grandchildren. A pic
mic dinner was eaten on the lawn anc
the day passed very pleasantly. The
size of Mr.. and Mrs. JacksOn's family
is somewhat remarkable, but it is still
| more remarkable that none of theil
children or grandchildren have died.
Clinton puts in a claim to the posses.
sion of the oldest living pair of twins
In Clinton, March II, 1922. were born &c
Samuel and Rachel RicnarGson twir
daughters, Eliza AMI Olive. thus max.
ing them over SO years Old, three years
older than the Augusta pair reported
the other day. Olive married Aaro1
Stewart and is now living in her ma
tive town. Eliza married Edmund Joy
and Is now living in Patten. They have
both been remarkably strong anJ
active until the past year. walking one
and two miles to visit friends, and also
doing d large amount Uf fancy work.
Somerset Reporter: BY all means lei
the bushes grow beside the country
roads. Those riding in private teams
are now about frightened to death b!
| the devil wagons; and this source oi
beauty should be left for their sOlacs
and satisfaction. Besides the fact tina;
they cover unsightly rocks ard stumps
they retain a moisture and freshness
that Is restfu1 to passa-s by. Unless
needed for cultivation, let the bushes
remain at the country roadside.
1.-THE Rev. George H. Brownlee, pas
tor Of a church in Belfast, Me-, has
created a sensation among his parish.
toner's and the people of Waldo count,
by refusing to marry any couple il
June" This is the opening sentence OF
a half page sensational and illustrated
article in western paper. The Belfas
Journal points out that there is no such