According to reports, some of the local butchers are receiving tempting offers from the big packing concerns in Chicago to “go west” and take the place of strikers. The big Chicago packing concerns are anxious to get all the butchers they can hire and for several days past have had their agents all over the country looking for men to take the places of strikers. Good pay is offered and as a result of this already a large number of eastern butchers have been secured. Of the butchers already hired to take the place of strikers, some 200 or more have been secured in Maine and New Hampshire and have now gone to the scene of action.

50 Years Ago, 1954

An out-of-state publishing firm is scheduled to set up operations in a new Lewiston plant on Dec. 1 with a work force of 200 persons. The 202 by 218 foot plant already is under construction on Mount Hope Avenue and the general contractor, Gerard Construction Co., of Lewiston, is confident the structure will be completed before the Dec. 1 deadline. Credit for Lewiston’s acquisition of this new industry goes to a group of local businessmen who, possessed with confidence in the future of this community, energetically raised $350,000 to purchase the property and erect the plant for the new industry.

25 Years Ago, 1979

There will be a new face and an unfamiliar figure in the group of joggers that takes off around the Bates College track tonight when the ninth of 10 sessions of the Peoples Bank and St. Mary’s General Hospital Running and Fitness Clinic is held. It will be the face and the figure of Joan Benoit, this year’s winner of the women’s division of the oldest and most prestigious footrace in America, the Boston Marathon.

The female winner and record setter for the 26 miles, 385 yards race from Hopkinton to Wellesley, has been invited to speak this evening at Bates College on “The Distance Runner” as part of the running and fitness clinic.