Image 2 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 22, 1909

Description

THE REPUBLICAN JlURNAL BELFAST THURSDAY APRIL 22 1909 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY The Republican Journal Publishing Co CHARLES A BILSBUKY BuStSnager Subscription Terms In advance 200 a year 100 for six months 50 cents for three months Advertising Terms For one square one inch length in column 50 cents for one week and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion MAINES LITERARY OUTPUT Maine has many claims to distinction If it may no longer be called the Pine Tree State we can take the spruce as an emblem or adopt Miss Sarah Orne Jewetts designation The Land of the Pointed Firs We no longer build ships but they are not built elsewhere and until this class of shipping went into decadence Maine held her supremacy both in ships and their commanders Un til the advent of the artificial ice plant and the Morse ice trust our ice crop furnished employment to hundreds of men and horses in the winter months and when the rivers opened our vessels carried the ice to market Maine is be coming the summer playground of the nation and the mecca of sportsmen dur ing the fishing and big game seasons Lumber and granite are important fac