Interest in checkers in Lewiston and Auburn has been increasing ever since the championship checker contest between F.M. Irish of Auburn and E.K. Chapman of Portland a short time ago.

An addition, forty by sixty feet is to be built to the St. Peter’s parochial school on Bates street for pensionnet. This building will be built by the Dominican Sisters who are located in this city and will cost over $5,000. It will be used for the higher education of young ladies and will also be used as a home for the sisters.

50 Years Ago, 1955

Yanks even series as Ford holds the Dodgers to 4 hits. Chunky Whitney Ford threw a brilliant four-hitter at Brooklyn after the New York Yankees clobbered rookie Karl Spooner for five runs in the first inning today to square the World Series with a 5-1 “must” victory in the sixth game at Yankee Stadium.

More than a century and a quarter of service has ended for the community in Gilead. The US Post Office in this town, which first opened on July 4, 1823, has officially closed. And with far more excitement and business than accompanied its opening. Mail for Gilead is to be delivered in the future by Albert “Pete” Silver, an RFD carrier for more than 25 years. Service will be handled through the Bethel Post Office with an assignation of RFD 2.

25 Years Ago, 1980

A panel of physicians and federal officials has concluded that the United States will have more doctors than it needs by 1990. The nation was 44,000 doctors short in 1978 when there were 375,000 active physicians, and the forecast is that in 1990 there will be 536,000 practicing doctors, or 70,000 too many.

New Englanders can take heart in learning the region’s unemployment rate was well below the national average in July, but the Lewiston-Auburn area registered the highest unemployment rate for the region with 10.4 percent.