Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-01-08
Maine GOSSIP
More Thai, Cloth to Make Dress


Betsy always wears such lovely clothes!
Why. her little dresses are as pretty
AS the ones that folks buy in the city
But she makes 'em all herself! Land
How she happens just ter touch the
That she should with little bows an
laces!
Molly-why, she's just the other way:
She spends lot o money for her
Twice a year she goes ter town. an
All the latest styles back horne; they
say
She has hats that cost most twenty
dollars;
When the bills come. guess her daddy
Funny t0 thing aboutit Is that Molly
Looks just but o. date fer all her style;
Looks-well, frumpy! Betsy, all the
Seems Just like great big dressed up
dolly.
It's a talent, lookin' well in clothes;
It's a business only some folks
knows!
guess.
It's the way you do Z thing that
makes
1t worth while or not; I guess it
takes &
Something more than cloth ter make =
dress!
Margaret E. Sangster. in the Christian
Herald.
Maine has several cases Of sleep
ing Sickness" the latest reported be-
ing Fort Kent man. French descent.
who last Friday was taken to a Ban
gor hospital, after having been
asleep for eight days, during which
time he had taken no nourishment.
Mrs. Mary Pillsbury OF Dunstan is
nearly 80 years old but still does her
own dressmaking and knits and sews
as quickly and neatly a. . girl. Her
father served in the War Of 1912, a
brother in tho Civil War and a grand
son in the World War. She well re-
members when the entire stretch Of
Old Orchard Beach from the Saco
river to Pine Point had but one lone
building, a small camp owned by u
hermit resident, who was probably
the first in the country to serve shore
dinners. ~
Water dripping from q Bath letter
box caused no little wonder as to- tile
cause. but investigation showed that
a nearby water pipe had burst and
the water.had forced Its way alons
until it met the mail boz post and
then went up through and into the
box.
Can anyone remember when winter
automobiling was better or even as
good? The conditions even up into
the Moosehead Lake regions are said
to equal summer travel and autos
and heavy trucks are operating in
every direction. where usually at this
time Of year there is from two to i've
feet ofssnow.
Speaking of nice "goin'" man
over from Lewiston Tuesday after
noon said that he had come over in
his auto in one hour and . minutes.
A tug has been chartered to keep
the Machias river open until the last
Of January, SO that it will be possible
to launch the schooner which will be
completed then at this sh'pyard,
where $50 men are now employed.
The Internal Revenue Department
for the District OF Maine seems to
have couple Of historians ON the
force, under Collector Tebtctts of tic
Augusta headquarters. One OF these
is Deputy John p. flanagan, in
charge Of the Bangor Office. who has
r mind a history Of his city. and who
Yas already written some valuable
newspaper articles on the subject.
He is an able young newspaper <Iaan
OF Bangor. The other. writer in this
iesrect is Judge Justin Henry Shaw
CT Kittery. who is at work on q new
history Of his town. Judge shaw has
been q newspaper man also. ard has
been a frequent contributor &c