-The lumber for the hardwood floor for the St. Louis Church has arrived and the workmen have already began laying it. The pews have also arrived. The last service to be held in the old chapel will be on Sunday, December 24, and then on Christmas morning services will be held in the vestry of the new church. There will be special music.

50 Years Ago, 1955

Eleven million dollars rode over the Maine Turnpike extension the first day it was open. The cargo, equal to one-fifth the cost of the 55 million dollar extension from Portland to Augusta, was heavily guarded by Lewiston and State police armed with sub-machine guns.

All in bonds, the shipment was taken by armored car from a Lewiston bank and was carried along the Turnpike extension last Tuesday night to Portland where it was placed on a train. Its destination was a Boston financial institution.

25 Years Ago, 1980

NEW YORK – The Kentucky Fried Chicken man died Tuesday and with him went a bit of Americana.

Col. Harland Sanders, the man with the white hair, the white goatee, the white plantation suit and the black string tie, had spread to the corners of the world an American Southern delicacy – the fried chicken that graces every table on the genteel side of the Mason-Dixon line.

From a small Kentucky shop, the colonel (whose title was only honorary) built an empire that stretched to 48 countries. On streets occupied by the culinary palaces in London and Paris, Sanders and his chicken-pushing heirs established their turf under 6,000 of those familiar red-and-white signs.