Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-04

oL OFeTSeeTS may ueeIl ItloSt eNpeileit
for the interest of the institution.
Yours very truly, Lucius Clapp.
1t is pretty poor apple year, but
there have been worse years over Cor
lima way Over 1000 barrels of apples
have already been shipped from that
town. this fall, for Boston and Phila-
delphia.
Boston Transcript: The lumber bust
ness in Maine is declining. Twenty
five years ago Bangor shipped from
200. 100000 to 275,000, 900 feet of lumber
annually to markets on both sides the
Atlantic and to four continents. but
since then it's shipments have fallen off
nearly one-half. But while this is not
particularly reassuring to the country
at large, whose need of lumber is in
creasing as the supply diminishes, the
people of the Penobscot region are
fortunate in the development of an
other industry to take the place of that
which is now decadent. Within ten
years there have been erected on that
stream halfsa dozen large mills in
which many million feet of small logs
have been annually ground and cooked
into pulp. These have proved so much
more profitable than numbering that a
number of new mills are planned and
the enterprise will doubtless grow very
rapidly from this time on. 1t seems as
il here might be case where con-
sumption and production could go
hand in hand; where intelligent for
estry could supplement an industry
that bids fair to have a long lease of
life. Big logs will some day be scarce
on the Penobscot, but the smaller
growth of which pulp is made is prac-
tically unlimited and it can be replen-
ished with ease. unless the reckless
process of a clean sweep and subse
quent Indifference to the fate of the
denuded land should continue to be the
policy there, as it is in SO many places
where the tree butchers devastate the
country. A New York Sun correspond
ent says that Maine will soon be best
known as the Pulp Mill State.''
Bath Enterprise: Rose White, who
has just been convicted of numbering
her husband near Togus, passed
through Bath yesterday morning
bound for Thomaston to serve SEN
tence of four years in the State prison.
She is young. of slight build. good
looking girl, and doesn't look as if
she'd hurt fly. Four years seems
light sentence for murder. however,
though doubtless it is good thing for
the community that the man is dead.
The first month of the '9S game sea-
son which closed last Monday night
was the greatest month in the history
of Maine for game records During
October more than 1900 deer were
transported on the B. & A. trains
which pass through Bangor, or about
200 more than were shipped in October
of last year. More game of every sort.
moose, caribou, and bears have been
shot than ever before. On Monday,
October II. new record was estab-
lished, there having been brought into
Bangor on that day 1877 deer, nine
moose, and two bears. The former
record made on October g. 1897, was 1903
deer, eight moose. and five caribou.
The second best record was made on
Saturday last when ITO deer. five moose
and one bear arrived in Bangor. The
woods are full of sportsmen and on
every train are more parties from all
over the country. That Maine game
regions are far famed is evident from
the fact that several Ohio parties and a
number OF sportsmen from western
pennsylvania have come to this State
for the excellent shooting in Aroostook.
Brunswick Telegraph: Bowdoin SYM
pathizers We're rather taken aback 1t
the result of the big foot ball game.
Bowdoin makes the mistake of under
estimating Bates very often. and the
sooner she comes to admit that the lit
tie college at Lewiston, while little
more than an academy in some mat
ters. is in athletics no mean antagonist.
but rather an opponent worthy of her
steel, the better. The songs prepared
before the game We're amusing enough,
but when the tables became turned
were seen to be more of hoodoo than