• A slight accident occurred during the production of “As Ye Sow.” at the Empire Monday evening. When the actor who takes the part of Frank Leland, the man saved from the wreck, went to sit down in a Morris chair, that article of furniture broke, much to the amusement of the crowd and the discomfort of the unfortunate actor. It was necessary to ring down the curtain for a few minutes and then the play proceeded smoothly.

• While the attendance at the State Fair yesterday was not as large as on Wednesday of last year the receipts, the officials say, are much larger. At noon time it was estimated that 15,000 were on the grounds and by 3 o’clock a conservative estimate placed the number at 30,000.

50 Years Ago, 1956

MANCHESTER, N.H. – An estimated 20,000 persons attended a revival of this city’s Old Time Firemen’s Muster, the first held in 50 years. Seventeen teams from Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire competed in the “hand-tub” contest to see which team could hand pump the longest stream of water, the method of fighting fires years ago.

• Busy last-minute shoppers flocked in droves to push the day-before-school-opens sales mark past the peak set last year, it was reported last night by Lewiston businessmen. The edge over last year’s mark was slight, according to some Lewiston businesses because of the record making sales past two weeks.

25 Years Ago, 1981

With import quotas slated to expire in February, Maine’s clothespin industry is gearing up for an ambitious lobbying effort to have the limits extended.

There are four clothespin producers in the country, three in Maine and one in Vermont.

President Carter agreed to a three year limit on imports of cheap clothespins from such countries as Taiwan, China and Poland, which were found to be disrupting the American market.

During that time, the industry is to use the profits resulting from the quotas to improve operations so companies can compete with lower-priced pins.