After being out two and a half hours, the jury that heard the $25,000 damage suit Carrier vs. Ward Bros. returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $18,250. This is the largest amount ever given for personal injury by any court in the State. This is considered a great victory for Hon. D.J. McGillicuddy who conducted the case for Carrier. It was the third time the case had been tried, the two previous trials resulting in a disagreement by the juries. The suit which has been stated many times in The Sun, resulted from an accident which caused serious personal injury to the plaintiff, Joseph Carrier.

50 Years Ago, 1955

•Yankees win first game by 6-5 score. Joe Collins, part time first baseman, bench warmer and pinch hitter, smashed two home runs today to give the New York Yankees first blood over the Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-5, in the opener of their sixth World Series.

•AUGUSTA – Automobile inspection month is just around the corner. Secretary of State Harold I. Goss reminded drivers today that motor vehicles of all kinds must be inspected during October and have the state sticker pasted on the windshield at an official inspection station. “This semi-annual inspection – in April and October – is an important safety factor,” Goss said.

25 Years Ago, 1980

GREENVILLE – All but 64 of Maine’s 700 lottery-picked moose hunters had taken home moose meat by the time the season closed this past weekend, and the state animal once again can enjoy the relative peace it has known for 45 years.

The size of the kill far exceeded the expectations of the state Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department officials, whose predictions a week ago generally were 500 or less.

The experimental, six-day season ended at sundown Saturday, but hunters had until noon Sunday to register their kills at one of the six tagging stations set up in the northern Maine woods. Three-fourths of the moose killed were bulls.