At least once a year patrons of the rustic theatre at Lake Grove are pleased with a week of minstrelsy and this season it comes early for the attraction the week of June 25th will be J. W. Gorman’s Imperial Minstrels. There will be an interlocutor and the usual end men with their funny sayings, jolly stories, their rattling bones, the chorus singing and the dancing, at the end of the first part will be the olio with a quantity of specialties including comedy gymnastics and singing and dancing. This entertainment will be given every afternoon and evening.

50 Years Ago, 1956

YARMOUTH, N.S. – The ferry Bluenose, operating between here and Bar Harbor, Maine, today made its first daily round trip.

The luxurious ship arrived here early in the afternoon with 519 passengers, 138 cars, four trailers and nine trucks. All passengers were cleared through customs within an hour and the ship began loading for her return trip to Bar Harbor. Officials said the first round-trip schedule went off with few hitches.

• Maine potato growers have entered 72,268 acres of plantings for state inspection for certified seed, highest acreage in 10 years and second highest in the 42 years of the program. Participating growers number 1,601.

25 Years Ago, 1981

Leavitt High School won’t field any interscholastic sports teams next year, as decreed by the SAD 52 Board of Directors at Thursday night’s meeting at the Leeds Central School. Coming as part of a massive school budget cut the action will make Leavitt the only public high school in the state without any interscholastic sports teams.

Although budget cuts have been common in high school sports in the past few years, with schedule cutbacks and other reductions affected all school systems, Thursday’s decision came as a surprise to and was seen as an excessive measure by virtually everybody involved in the area sports sphere.