An annual spectacle of the fish and game department, Augusta, Saturday was the presence of a number of beaver skins, which had been brought there for the purpose of sale, and some of which were very handsome specimens. The skins came from Somerset county, and the beavers which wore them were taken by wardens under the direction of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, under the law which allows the beavers to be so taken when they are found to be doing damage to property.

50 Years Ago, 1956

Do you remember back when the 20th Century was to mean all things to all men, and people talked as though civilization had finally turned the corner into an age of light?

In the so-called age of light, take a glance at one day’s news.

One of the latest quarrels in the United States is over an alleged government failure to really go all-out in production of new mass-destruction weapons.

In may parts of Europe people are crusading against payment of taxes for orderly government.

Whistles, songs, and slamming desk tops drown out debate in the French parliament.

In a world where food surpluses create a problem on the one hand, Italian unemployed riot in eight towns for bread.

In Tuscaloosa Alabama in the United States of America students riot because they refuse to sit in the halls of learning with a person they consider inferior.

In Madrid students riot over the plan of a dictator to restore a monarchy when he is gone.

25 Years Ago, 1981

A Kennebunkport windmill dealer says he is losing business to other states because Maine lacks a sales tax rebate on wind energy equipment.

Peter Talmage spoke at a Taxation Committee hearing this week in favor of a bill that would give Mainers who get their energy from the wind the same tax breaks as those who draw their power from the sun.