The Lewiston and Auburn markets are fairly loaded down with all of the good things imaginable for holiday festivities. Loads of turkeys, chickens, etc., have been ordered and will arrive here today and early next week.

Quantities of new nuts, splendid fruit of all kinds and all of the fixings that go to make the Thanksgiving dinner spread long to be remembered.

Another thing important to the “provider” of all these good things is the prices. A prominent Lewiston provision merchant tells The Sun that the prices will not vary much from what they were last year.

50 Years Ago, 1955

•Five new applications for membership in the Biggest Bucks Club, Maine’s exclusive hunting fraternity for nimrods who drop a buck tipping the scales at more than 200 lbs., live weight, have brought the total applications in Lewiston to date to 28 for the 1955 hunting season.

•The need for additional one-way streets or some other traffic regulation methods in Lewiston’s business area became more apparent yesterday as the shopping center got its first heavy rush of the Christmas shopping season. Lewiston Police Capt. Rene J. Larrivee said yesterday’s bumper-to-bumper parade of motor vehicles required the use of 90% of the day police force on traffic work.

25 Years Ago, 1980

NAPLES, Italy – Desperate rescue workers hacked piles of rubble with shovels and picks on Tuesday and tried to reach isolated mountain villages shattered by an earthquake that officials estimated killed more than 3,000 people in southern Italy.

The Italian military command estimated a death toll of at least 3,132 after learning of isolated villages devastated in the mountains behind Naples and Salerno. That would make it Italy’s worst earthquake since 1915, when 30,000 people died in the Avezzano region of central Italy.