Shipping horses to Bar Harbor by express is becoming more and more popular each season, as at this time of the year the company’s agent there receives a notice of one or more cars on the way each day for the summer residents. Eight carloads arrived there last week. The coachmen who accompany the horses say that the cars are well fitted for the purpose, and that they get to their destination in much quicker time and in better condition than in any other way.

50 Years Ago, 1956

What this country needs is someone who will invent a good mechanical nose, or a substitute for wolverine fur, or a handy little death ray machine that would work at 500 yards. In the old days the saying went: Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door even though you live in a house in the woods. That may have worked once, but today’s world is so complex the poor inventor may not even know what needs inventing. So the National Inventors Council, in the Department of Commerce, has prepared a handy little list of things badly needed, especially in national defense.

25 Years ago, 1981

The state Legislature narrowly voted to override Gov. Joseph Brennan’s veto of a bill restoring minimum milk prices, but Brennan vowed that his fight to abolish milk “price fixing” eventually will succeed. The Legislature’s action on the last day of the session, means that the price of milk at Maine stores will go back up to at least $2.08 a gallon. The price had fallen to as low as $1.69 a gallon after the courts earlier this month threw out minimum prices set by the Maine Milk Commission.