Street Gossip About Town — Kingston, New York, 1916

1916

STREET GOSSIP ABOUT TOWN

We notice quite some change in woman's styles this season, the hair being dressed low and the skirts high.

Our June tip to bridegrooms — If you start now helping the bride to wash the dishes you will have, unknowingly, contracted a life job.

The remarkable power and strength of the human eye is almost unbelievable and to quote but a single instance. The other evening one of the large plate glass fronts in the Arnold saloon on Mill street fell out. The bartender when questioned next day as to how it happened said "Somebody looked at it." As every one knows bartenders are unusually truthful and his statement as to how it happened should be accepted without reservation.

We rise to remark that we hope the present administration has now decreed a closed season on ultimatums.

Did you forget to carry your umbrella with you Wednesday?

For the first in some time we went off to work leaving ours at home, much to our regret.

Constant Reader suggests that as President Wilson has now qualified as an expert in note writing that he be requested to send one to the weather man.

We are hoping, however, that Company M will not have to contend with rainy weather when they go to camp.

Our own weather report — like the present administration's foreign policy, somewhat unsettled.

It is said that North Rondout residents are thinking of applying to the state fish hatchery for a supply of fish to stock the trenches in the streets which have now been filled with a quantity of water on the grounds that as long as the R. P. W. does not fill up the holes in the streets they should be allowed to have some pleasure in sitting on their front porch and throwing a fish line into the deep holes with the prospect of landing a nice trout for dinner.

There Is no foundation to the rumor that the government is thinking of chartering the Skillipot to transport the soldiers to the summer camp.

Residents of Ulster county are still watchfully waiting for work to be started on the concrete piers for the Sleightsburgh bridge.

With the thermometer registering as low as 55 degrees the first night of summer it is still best to use plenty of bed clothing.

An old resident remarked during the rain storm on Wednesday, the first day of summer, that he fails to recollect a rainy season at this time of the year to equal the one we are "enjoying."

The reason why we emphasize the fact that Wednesday was the first day of summer is that no one would guess it from the weather we are having.

Have you joined Company M yet? If not better hurry before the boys leave for camp.

We wonder if the men who shouted loudest for intervention in Mexico were among the first to join the National Guard when the call went out for recruits.

—The Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, June 24, 1916, page 2.