The workmen in the employ of the International Paper Company, who have been hauling out logs from the Stillwater river near Orono, and piling them up to great piles like huge triangles, have completed their work. The derrick has been taken down and the little donkey engine that has puffed and snorted at the river’s edge for weeks, has been loaded on to a flat car. Thirty-seven thousand logs have been taken from the river and have been piled up on the shore, all of which will be converted sooner or later into crisp, rustling newspapers.

50 Years Ago, 1955

Hart Hall, the newest University of Maine men’s dormitory which has been under construction the past year and a half, will be occupied for the first time Thursday when the vanguard of 248 resident students set up housekeeping for the new college year.

Named for Dean Emeritus James N. Hart, 94, the university’s oldest living alumnus, the building and furnishings cost a total of $800,000. One-half of the cost was appropriated by the Maine legislature in 1953 and the remainder will be financed through bank loans payable from the operating income of the university dormitory program.

25 Years Ago, 1980

Madison – The Lakewood Theater’s season is over, but the future of the historic playhouse is as much in doubt as ever.

Richard Whitting and John Dobbins, who leased the theater this summer after it appeared there would be no 1980 season, said they are considering raising money in the Boston area and putting together a proposal to operate Lakewood next summer.

The future of the nation’s oldest summer theater, which was founded in 1901, ultimately rests in the hands of a federal bankruptcy judge. Whitting and Dobbins leased Lakewood from Lance Crocker Association, a debtor in possession of Lakewood, which filed a petition for relief from its creditors last fall in order to develop a corporate reorganization plan to pay off its debts.