The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-04-29

men ISDglH III column, oU Genus IOT one week
and p cents for each subsequent insertion
Beverly, Mass. not Belfast, Me-, will
be the summer home of President Taft.
At sale of autographs in Boston last
week only one cent was offered for let
Ger of Ebert Hubbard. Such is fame!
The Wall Street Journal suggests that
Congress might break the wheat corner
by putting wheat on the free list.
Mad as halter" has long been a
familiar saying, and it has unusual sig
nificance this season.
There are two occasions when the most
veracious man is likely to prevaricate
when he tells love romance or a hunt
ing story!-Figaro.
How about fish stories?
In sporting circles a chronic dispenser
of wad and hot air is called upon to
put up or shut up but there are cases
where this is neither possible nor prob
able.
The Penobscot river mills are starting
up with better stock of logs than usual
this spring, and the condition of the
spruce market is mach more encouraging
thar il was in the spring of 1908.
VIII one exception all of the CONNER
cial organizations of St. Louis have gone
on record as opposing Statewide prohi-
bition ST. Louis has 4 large foreign
population and the beer saloon is much
in evidence
-Trotter and PAGER quotes C. C. May
berry Of Boston saying: '.In the State of
Maize there We're never so many we'll
Dre1 prospects for light-harness drivers
as today That IS the kind of horse talk
W. Ike to hear.
Tt Brunswick Record says that Bruins
wicl and Topshan will plant from $50 to
500 5-r.s in potatoes this season, which
VI. represent an expenditure of about
81. $40 for fertilizers and a probable
crop u from 80. 900 to 100, 900 bushels.
tt indications are that Waldo county
W have an increased acreage in pota-
toes this year
Hon. Waldo PettingiI, who recently
returned from a trip through the South,
tells the Oxford County Citizen that, cit
is 100 early to Judge of the effects of the
new prohibitory law in the various States,
but there is less drunkenness now in the
places where prohibition prevails, than
in the licensed places. The people in the
South are III earnest regarding the sup
preston of the sale of liquors. The one
great problem is the black man. No man
from the North can go there and fail to
fee IS the native whites do There must
always be white mans party"
A good deal depends upon the decision
as to whether beet is a vegetable or an
unmanufactured article. The Michigan
Sugar Company. which uses three hun
dred million pounds of beets yearly in its
sixteen plants, contends that as sufficient
Oee1s are not grown in this country to
supply the demand, beets should be con-
5iGer-d as ar ''unmanufactured and emu
enera-ed article and assessed at ten per
Gent The beet has been cassed as a
Fere table and as such sugar manufac-
af,9erS have been compelled to pay
W ag-ty-tve per cent ad valorem duty on
\ IMPORTS. Hose not engaged in the
manufacture Of sugar will continue of
The opinion that a beet is vegetable
he article on another page on the
New England fruit show should not be
overlooked by the fruit growers of this
section. It is a matter of vital import
ance, not only to fruit growers but to
all who have the welfare and prosperity
of the State at heart. Maine can, and
does. produce as fine apples as can be
grown anywhere in the world; but the
past season we have seen apples from
The Pacific coast sold in our markets at
) or ) cents apiece, and in Boston we are
told they have sold as high as $3.50 a
dozen. Montana, Oregon, southern Mis-
sour, Arkansas and southern Illinois are
meeting with great success in apple
raising, and while the southern and west
err fruit is handsome in appearance it
lacks the flavor and keeping qualities of
The Maine grown apple. 1t would seem
that in sorting and packing we have
something to learn from our competi-
tors; and much to learn as to the proper
care of orchards; too many of which are
producing cider apples when they might
De made to yield high grade fruit that
Commands the top price at any time.
This proposed fruit show will be educa-
tional and should receive all possible aid
and encouragement.
WEST FRAN kFOKT,
Miss Freda Knowlton spent Sunday with her
father, LeweIlyn Knowlton :. Emery Mad
docks from Massachusetts,, ACCOMPANIED by
his mother, Mrs. Calderwood from Belfast
visited relatives here one day last week.
Miss Amanda Lowe is stopping with Mrs. Flora
Littiefed in Swanville.. Miss katherine