Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-22
Maine Gossip

The first girl in Maine to volunteer
her services as driver of automobile in
case Of war, was Miss Lorena NJ. Reed
of Richmond, the only child of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles H. Reed of that
town. She was. graduated from the
Richmond High school three years ago,
and after leaving school she studied
elocution for time. She has for sew
,eral years been an enthusiastic auto
mobilist and was one of the first wo-
men in Sagadahoc county to receive
drivers license, having held one for
the past five years.
Miss Lillian S. Johanson of Port
land, young woman 81 years of age
who drives car and knows the
works" as thoroughly as men who
work in automobile factories, wishes
| to fly in an airship and says that she
yearns for an adventurous career rath-
er than the prosaic calling of repairing
automobiles and similar mechanical
contrivances. Miss Johanson is per-
severing and self-reliant, doing her
share of work with the men in the
repair shop. She discarded woman's
garb when she resigned as stenograph-
err and stepped into the shop, although
she keeps in practice in answering the
correspondence of the office. She was
born in Sweden and lived in her girl
hood in Canada. After a brief career
on the vaudeville stage she became i'll
and was a long. time in a hospital.
Then she was dairy maid on a big
farm after which she went to Portland
to take up office work.
Talbot Mundy of Norway, we'll
known writer, was admitted to citi4
zenship in the United States the other
day at the March term of the supreme
judicial court for Oxford county. Mr..
Mundy was born in England, came to
the United States in 1909. and has
lived in Norway three years.
Not 20 years have the lobster
fishermen along the coast of Sagada-
DOC county done so well as during the
FhAsent winter, according to Abner c.
Johnson of Bath, for many years one
othe best known fish wardens in the
State He says that two of the fisher
meh during the period from Dec. Is to
March 1 stocked $500, and that others
have done as well in proportion to the
number of traps in use.
! The city electrician at Bangor has
advised that more of the city wires be
placed underground as there are more
conduits available in the ducts of
commercial companies. The street
light department there costs the city
labout $4,000 a year. Street lights are
4carried far out into the suburbs, and
besides this the city lights all the pub
lie buildings and maintains quite an
elaborate display the year round on the
top Of the standpipe on Thomas Hill.
The appearance Of many Of the
Quoddy motor boats from their winter
quarters at the canadian coves about
Passamaquoddy Bay near Eastport
lcomss as a forefunner Of the annual
opening Of the sardine canning ilaus-
try qp April IL.
A sizeable cumberland sale has re-
Gently been completed when the
spruce, FIR and balsam stumpage on
Township 8. Range 4 was sold by the
Kennebago Land Co. to the American
Realty Co. The township. which is
also known a. Stetson town, Franklin
county, contains over $4,000 acres and
the contract calls for 10000 cords
each year until the township is
cleared. tits SO well wooded that 1t is
said it will takes years to cut 1t all on
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