Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-12
MAINE GOSSIP
Grandma Today
h where is the old fashioned grandma

Grandma Today
Oh where is the old fashioned grandma
today,
With specs on the end of her nose,
Who sat by the fireside cosy and warm,
enjoying a half-hour's doZe-
Who listened with wonderful kindness
and love
To our numberless childish woes,
Or cheerfully mended the big awful
In the toes of our worn out hose?
For Grandma today wears no snowy
locks,
Her hair is quite auburn, vow;
Her complexion is radiant-some's on
her face
And some's on her dresses right now.
She wears high heeled shoes ana trips
Silk stockings of quality fine:
She has trim fitting gowns and Paris
perfume,
And her jazzing is something divine.
IT'S only the "old fashioned man" who
signs forth in sad tones this refrain:
"Oh bring back the days BY the warm
fireside
And the old fashioned grandma
C. ". S. in Portland Telegram.
Smelt fishing on the Saco is go
ing big.
The cold wave didn't effect East
port town-politics was too hot.
Is your town going to give some
thing toward Maine publicity?
The play "Our New Minister" drew
a crowd at Belfast. Wonder If that
isn't more than new minister could
do?
Discussion of candidates for town
meeting has not altogether gone out
of fashion in Maine at this season
of the year.
The number 13 is a lucky one in
| the case of men and women who at
/ tended the little school at City Point
| lust outside Belfast, so years ago
! for the original Is who went to thai
, school are all living.
4 APPOINTMENT VI l"o hCW POotiieso
ters at offices in Maine were an
| nounced Wednesday. Julia E. Luf'
kin has been commissioned at Deel
, Isle and Clifford C. Coggins has beer
named as postmaster at South Sur
| ry.
: Melvin Berry of Embden Center
has just completed very pretty
| little serving cabinet. This is thu
| sixth one he has made this winter
| besides lots of other things such a:
! tables, chairs, smoking stands, etc
Mr.. Berry, who is 20 years of age
does this work entirely by hand.
plows, manufactured by the UnioI
Iron Works of Bangor. were shipped
to Boston Wednesday night by ex
press on a Geographic order received
by the company Wednesday after
noon, to assist in clearing the streets
of the Hub, blockaded by the biz
snow storm today. The cars wer,
shipped in box cars attached to tn,
go train.
| "a ripple of excitement" is reported
to have been experienced in Batf
recently on seeing a horse ant
sleigh without a driver pass along
the street. Once such a performance
was thought to be hazardous to the
public. but the latter under so many
/! greater hazards seems to be mostly
concerned lest something happen tc
7 in RI 1re
| predicament. Hence the ripple"
The playlet, 1.-The Awakening o.
Maine" written by Mrs. Frances Me
serve Cotton Of Gorham, at the re
quest of Governor Brewster. wa.
successfully staged for the second
time by the Gorham Grange a few
nights ago. This two-act sketch was
first presented at the State Grange
| lecturers conference held the lat.
ter part of January at the State
| House.
! Raymond Baker of Orono, EN-.
ployed at the International Paper
mill, was at work on pile of pulp
| the other day. when, glancing dowr
he looked right into the glistenine
eyes of wild cat. He beat a hasty
retreat and soon returned with 6
| gun. "Bang"--the bob cat was dead
The animal measured 43 inches. An.
| other wild cat has been seen there.
| abouts.
Camden. N. j., has invited Cam.
den. Maine, to send its mayor O,
other representative to the opening
of the new bridge over the Delaware
river. Our Maine Camden does not
have mayor. instead it has a town
manager, but this may not deter
Camden, Maine. from inviting the
mayor of Camden, N. j., to come
to this state in two or three years
to attend the formal opening of the
! bridge across the Kennebec river.
The seagoing yacht Aras of 1872
feet, built for Hugh J. Chisholm of
Portland from designs by the Bath
Iron Works, Ltd, and which Mr..
Chisholm would have had built in
/ Bath if the plant had not been
closed, will be one of nine vessels
to be launched March 90 from the
I-arIS of tho Ncu-nort Nauye Chin.