• It is expected that the Deer Rips dam will be in operation by the latter part of this month. The dam is already completed and good progress is being made on the power house.

• The staging at the new brick block of I. Simard and Sons on Lower Lisbon street have been taken down. This block is four stories high and will be one of the finest on Lisbon street. It is said the cost is about $35,000. The two stories in the block will be occupied by the owners for their grocery and meat shops. Upstairs all the space will be used as tenements.

50 Years Ago, 1954

Twenty-eight players on the New York Giants plus their trainer and their clubhouse attendant received a record $11,147.90 each for winning the World Series. Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick announced the breakdown today for 327 players and club personnel on eight teams who participated in the all-time high in World Series money. A full Giant’s share was $2,867.22 more than the previous record payoff to the New York Yankees in 1953. It was $4,435.40 more than a full share of the losing Cleveland Indians.

25 Years Ago, 1979

• Regulations requiring new Lewiston city management personnel to be residents of Lewiston was the major point of discussion at a Charter Transition Committee meeting Monday night. The residency regulations would give preferential hiring treatment to Lewiston residents and require that management personnel hired and not living in Lewiston move to the city within three months of hiring.

• Several members of the Lewiston-Auburn Clamshell/Safe Energy Alliance made their way down Interstate 95 this past weekend to share their energy view with the Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook. The group maintained its non-violent stand, refusing to be drawn in with the ripping down of fences which occurred at the south side of the plant and sparked retaliation measures by law enforcement.