Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
Maine GOSSIP



If with pleasure you are viewing any
work a man is doing,
If you like him, or YOU love him. tel!
him now
Don't withhold your appreciation TIL the
parson makes Grafton,
And he lies with snowy lilies Ger his
brow;
For no matter how YOU shout it, he
won't really care about 1t:
He won't know how many teardrcps
you have shed;
II you think some praise is due him,
nows the time to slip it to him.
For he cannot read his tombstone
when he's dead.
More than fame and more than money
is the comment kind and sunny
And the hearty warm approval Of a
friend.
For it gives to life a SAVIOR, and It
makes you stronger. braver,
And ii gives you heart and spirit 10
the end;
If he earns your praise bestow it.; if
YOU like him let him know IT,
Let the words of true encouragement
be said
DO not wait Till life is over and he's un-
derneath the clover.
For he cannot read his tombstone
when he's dead.
Christian Endeavor Wo1ll.
Mrs. Maud McKindsley of joyce
has flock of 3S Single Comb White
Leghorn pullets that from Dec. l un-
til May l laid 1863 eggs, which beats
record published short time ago
in the kennebec Journal of 3i2S eggs
from 80 pullets.
For the first time in Cumberland
county indictments were drawn under
the provisions of the recently enacted
law requiring loan agents or brokers
to be licensed by the State bank eX-
aIiner and establishing a fixed rate
OF interest that may be charged on
the money loaned. Among the !ndict-
ments made public, returned by the
grand jury of the superior court at
Portland Wednesday, were two found
under this law. One is against Fred
+. Phillips of the United Securities
Co, and the other against Joseph l..
Godfrey. In each case it is set out that
they engaged in business of lending
money without first obtaining the re-
qulred license. and also they exacted
and received interest in excess of the
rate fixed by the law.
Miss Ethel Bailey, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. W. 3. Bailey, 81 Glenwood
avenue. Portland, left Monday night
for Detroit, Mich, to assume her du-
ties as Government inspector in the
q q o,.1,S,
Corps. at one Of the big plants in that
city which Is manufacturing engines
and machine parts for American air.
planes. Miss Bailey is the first woman
to be appointed to such an important
position in machine and engine con-
struction and it is said that her per-
centage on technical examination Of
the work taken some weeks ago was
unusually high.
Mrs. Susan G. Foster of Bruns-
wick, who will be IS years old in
June, has thus far knit IS sweaters.
two scarfs, two helmets, and is now
completing her 3od pair Of socks to
be sent to the boys who have re-
She is one of the most enthusiastic
workers of the Brunswick Chapter
OF the Red Cross, and says that she
viii keep on knitting as long as the
boys need her services
IF anyone has the faintest doubt
as to the great increase Of business
in Bath" stated a f,lrpit,,ra 6aalar
"let him hear this. In three weeks I
myself have sold to young married
couples in this city. goods amounting
to $4,000. l am only one of a mum
Der of representative from our firm in
this city. and the aggregate amount
of sales was much more than this,
but this is the statement OF nv own
work. Moreover, everyone seems not
only willing, but anxious to pay cash.
n lew GAYS ago | sold a large bin of
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