The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-02-25
Papers and Periodicals.
The Rockland Courier Gazette and Union
Times have been consolidated

The Rockland Courier-Gazette and Union
Times have been consolidated.
The Biddeford Daily and Weekly Times,
W hch suspended month ago, will resume
publication this week, under the manage
ment of ii stock company of which James
Horne of Boston is president.
Editors Robbins of the Old Town Enter
prise and Hunter of the Pennington Chron-
icle are representing the Maine newspaper
men at the meeting of the National Edito
| rial Association in Galveston, Texas.
The February Rudder has it's usual quota
of fine illustrations, and is full of matter of
interest to yachtsmen and yacht builders,
professional and amateur. Send 50 to the
Rndder Publishing Co., 155 Broadway, New
York, and enjoy the monthly visits of this
| excellent periodical for year.
William Fl. Jeffrey, at one time editor and
manager of the Maine Democrat at Augusta,
has issued at Portland the first number of
weekly paper called The Northern Plain
dealer, which he pro, oses to make the organ
of the allied silver element in Maine. The
Plaindealer is an SPACE paper, newsy and
well edited.
Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World
has bought a house in Georgia for winter
residence, and it IS now supposed that he
will divide his time in the following manner:
Winter in Georgia, spring and fall in Lake
wood, and summer at Bar Harhor. Each of
these residences will have Geographic COM
munication with the World office, thus en-
aiding HIM to talk with his managers when
ever it may be required.
disgusted newspaper man gives the fol-
| lowing philosophical reasons for retiring
| from business: ~ child is born, the doc tor
| in attendance gets SO, the editor notes it
and gets o it is christened, the ministe. gets
| 81, the editor writes it up and gets 90; it
| marries, the minister get another fee, the
| editor gets a piece of cake or 600; in course
| of time it dies, the doctor gets from 50 to
/ SO, the minister gets another S. the under
taker S25 to $40-the editor prints it and re-
| ceives 0000-and then the privilege of run
ming free OF charge card of thanks" Tiff
| ton, Ca, Gazette.
The Rangeley Lakes thinks it strange that
the facg of the birth OF that paper should not
have been included in the records of the
| Maine Press Association. We believe this
to have been one of many oversights, and it
! serves to emphasize what was said i'll The
Journal last week, and many times before,
on the Importance of full, accurate and i'm
partial reports from the county historians.
Bro. Hunter Of Pennington called the at
tention of the Association to this and other
| omissions and was instructed to correct the
records of Franklin county for the past two
/ years.
If you should ask the women of New Eng
land in regard to their favorite daily paper,
nine out of every ten would declare in favor
of the Boston journal. Every day the Wo-
mans Corner of that interesting paper is
He'd with varied news and gossip especial
| ly designed to interest the ladies'. In the
Sunday journal there are number of extra
features which are always appreciated. In
addition to the page devoted exclusively to
| pictures and letters to interest the fair sex,
the Sunday journal gives each week pho
tographic fashion picture designed by one of
the fourteen leaders of court styles in Eu-
rope, each illustration being accompanied
maker Then there is the weekly letter from
Bah, whose breezy comments on topics of
the day, are always timely and interesting,
| A series of letters to girls and mothers by
tinuation Of the last novel from the pen of
"The Duchess are among the other inter-
estng features.