Just before dark an enormous flock of wild geese was seen to alight in one of the marshes along the shore of the lake at Newport. It is estimated that there were all of 400 birds in the flock. It was, by far, the largest flock ever seen there. A party of hunters succeeded in bagging a bird, weighing 26 pounds.

Sportsmen will be interested to learn that another attempt will be made by the United States Fish Commission to stock the waters of the Penobscot and possibly other Maine rivers with a new species of salmon, this time with the hump backed salmon of the Pacific.

50 Years Ago, 1955

Bar Harbor is still waiting for its ship to come in, and every day of waiting it is costing money. The ship is the Canadian ferry Bluenose, to go into service on the run between Bar Harbor and Yarmouth N.S. It’s a lucrative tourist route that will replace the old Yarmouth-Boston service, and is regarded here as one of the biggest economic booms for the town in years. Catering to the average tourist is a new departure for this swank resort which once played host mainly to uppercrust of society.

25 Years Ago, 1980

U.S. Jet interceptors were scrambled twice in September to shadow Russian bombers flying 200 miles off the Virginia coasts, the Air Force says. The supersonic F-106 fighters were launched from Langley Air Force Base here Sept. 18 and again Sept. 24 as the prop-driven Bear bombers prowled just outside U.S. airspace. It was the first time since 1977 that Soviet bombers strayed close enough to the U.S. coast to scramble Langley’s F-106s for an intercept. “They’re constantly out there, probing our air defenses.” said Lt. Col. Don Carson, the squadron’s operations officer. But Carson said the bombers did not violate U.S. airspace. The U.S. maintains a protective buffer, called the Air Defense Identification Zone, about 200 miles around its borders.