The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-01-10
Newspaper Notes.

With two newspaper men upon his staff
and one upon his Council Maine journalism
ought to be pretty close to the administra-
ton of Governor Hill. And the Governor
himself is an active member OF the Maine
Press Association. kennebec journal.
The Ellsworth Enterprise issued last
week very handsome souvenir edition
The illustrations include views of Els
worth, private residences, public build
ings, portraits of business men and promi-
nent citizens. Among the familiar portraits
are those of ex-Chief Justice Peters, the
and the late Monroe Young.
The 3sth annual meeting of the Maine
Press Association will be held in the capital
building, Augusta, Wednesday and Thurs
day, Jan. 3O-3l, with preliminary meeting
for members only on Wednesday afternoon.
The essay will be given by Samuel l.. Board
man of the Commercial, and the poem by J.
Clair Minot of the Kennebec Journal. A
reception will be rendered the association
by His Excellency, Governor John l.. Hill,
and Mrs. Hill on the evening of Jan. 31st.
The twentieth century newspaper, as en-
bodied in the New York World of Jan. LIST
issued under the direction of Alfred Harms
worth, the successful editor of the London
Daily Mail and other English periodicals,
consisted of 80 pages of four sixteen inch
standard columns each. The paper would
look better with more breadth of beam or
shorter columns. There was nothing start
ling in the makeup or matter, but the news
was presented in more condensed form
than usual, and new feature was a popu-
lar novel boiled down into about column
of space. Do the readers of daily papers
want boiled-down novels?
LEGISLATIVE KENNEBEC JOURNAL.
Every Intelligent person in Maine will want
to keep close watch upon the proceedings
at Augusta, this winter. Matters of great
| interest to all are sure to have early atten-
ton at the hands of the legislators. In fact,
this session gives promise of being the most
important and interesting for years. The
subject of taxation alone, which it is pro-
| posed to fully consider and revise, will be
| intensely interesting to every tax payer in
| the State. The Kennebec journal is the
| official State paper, and consequently the
| only paper in Maine which publishes the
official stenOgraphic reports of the legisla-
tive proceedings. These reports are contin-
! uOUS duu COUlplCGc. LII duulblOll W luc SU6u-
| ographers-one in the Senate and two in
the House-the Journal will have full
| corps of special reporters who will keep a
| sharp watch on the committees and other
| matters of interest connected with the SEES
sion. All the hearings and notices are adj
vertised in the Kennebec Journal, hence if
| you keep a careful watch in this paper moth
| ing can escape your notice. The price is
exceedingly low, viz: Daily, $1,oO for the
session; weekly, 25 cents. Remit by money
order or check, or in postage stamps, if
| more convenient. Address Kennebec Jour
| nal, Augusta, Maine.
| The Rockland Courier Gazette entered
last week upon its seth volume 1t dates
from the LIMERICK Gazette, established
Jan. %, 1876. The name was changed later
to Rockland Gazette, and Wakefield G. Frye
was the editor from Feb. %, 1858, to March
10, 1859. In the course of an interesting
editorial reviewing its past, the Gazette
says: "Of the 175 periodical publications
printed in this State to-day, there existed,
in January, 1916, when The first issue of
this paper came from the press, but IA.
The list is an interesting one and we print
it, with the year of the establishment of
each paper: