Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-20
Maine GOSSIP
The Lonaest Day.

The Longest Day.
(Grif Alexander in Pittsburg Dispatch.)
When Mrs. Miggs rose yesterday while
yet the morn was pale
She got her husbands breakfast and she
packed his dinner pail.
She saw him off to work, and then, ac-
cording to her rule,
She dressed and fed her children six and
packed them off to school.
She filled the tubs, put clothes to soak,
and then. no time to waste.
She washed the dishes, swept the floor
and all with frenZied haste.
She soaped, she rubbed, she boiled, she
rinsed. while scraps of songs were
She used her fists for wringers and she
Wrung and wrung and wrung.
She drew her line from pole to pole at
FENCES north and south
And chatted with her neighbors with a
clothespin in her mouth.
She hung the clothes upon the line and
49,. grumbled as she joked:
Ihem cio'es they won't be ony dried
but they'll be dried and smoked
And then the kids came home from
school all anxious to be fed.
She threw a meal together-tea and
sugar. jam and bread.
Throughout the sultry afternoon she
stood close to the stove
And m. irliiy things she ironed and sang,
And then she hurried to the store and
got the things she'd need
To build a meal of size enough a hun
cry crowd to feed.
She set the table, cooked the grub, and
saw them eat their fill,
And then to wash the dishes set to work
with iron will.
Say. mom.' said little Mamie Miggs, Il
heard the teacher say
In all the year the twenty first of June's
the longest day"
That's So said Mames mama, and
. grinned little bit,
We'll. mebbe so, an maybe not.
hadn't noticed it,
1t doesn't look much as if Andrew
Carnegie were dangerously ill. as
some of the New York papers would
have it. according to his activities last
week, writes the Bar Harbor cor
respondent of the Bangor News. Fog
and wet weather have kept him at
home somewhat, but every fair dav he
mas been out. on one DAY making a
visit to Eagle lake, which he saw for
the first time. The latest desire which
is possessing the Steel King is to try
the fishing and he will not be content
till he drops a line into the lake
waters. He made it a point to visit
the various spots Of interest on the
island. and his yacht and automobile
have been kept busy. Mrs. Carnegie
and his daughter. Miss Margaret. go
with him on about all MS excursions
The repairs on the battleship North
Carolina are to be made at the navy
yard at Kittery and will necessitate the
completed in September, when the snip
will be attached to the aviation force at
Pensacola.
One of the bravest and nerviest rescues
yet reported was performed last Friday
ners. son of Mr.. and Mrs j. A. Corners,
swan out and saved a little 4-year-old
Gilda girl, who had fallen in while play
ing on wharf. The lad was in SWIM
ming and saw the accident. Being
praised for his rescue the lad merely
said: Why, 1 heard the little girl cry
out. saw she was beyond her depth and
went after her. Just took her under one
arm and swan right in. Twas easy
enough And the boy mentioned it as
though saving lives was an every day oc-
currence.
President Percy r. Todd. accompanied
by Mrs. Todd and Miss Stella Todd, left
Bangor Friday on a months vacation
trip. travelling in his private car via
Greenville and the Canadian Pacific, to
Winnipeg. thence to the Pacific coast,
taking in the cities of Vancouver. Seattle,
Portland and the exposition at San Fran
cisco. beyond which point they had made
no definite plans before leaving Bangor.
They expect to return about the middle
of August.
j. E. Goldman, who spent the greater
part of his life as a waterworks engineer
in Philadelphia and who now lives in
Camden. Me-, took measurements of that
famous Thursday downpour of rain and
says that 81 inches fell at Camden. He
also states that the greatest rainfall he
ever recorded in a single 24-hour period
during 80 years up to this storm was
three inches and that so far as he can
A>NAA' eAi1S Adiiiidil VI O2 lISicS Wltiliil -
hours is the greatest fall ever recorded
east of he Mississippi river. Add to this
the fact that the greater part of this fall
came within few hours in the middle of
the night and one can realize what that
section of Maine experienced.
Bothbay Harbor summer residents are
anticipating more than usual sport and
excitement in the yacht races this sum-
mer. as several speedy motor boats have
been added to the fleet.
There is valuable diamond ring
somewhere about the shores of Var
mum pond. lost there by a travelling
man who was at the pond on days
fishing trip. reports the Franklin
Journal. The ring is of platinum
and the stone is large and valuable
one. brilliant and of fine color
Fearful lest the ring be lost the
fisherman removed it from his finger