The Chicago club of the American baseball league is the champion of the world. By winning today’s game, 8 to 3, against the local club of the National league, the Americans earned the right to float the world’s championship pennant as well as the pennant of the American league, to ride the grounds next season in carriages and to have “world’s champions” on the blankets worn by their horses.

50 Years Ago, 1956

Two beautiful autumn days were welcomed in Lewiston and Auburn over the week end and temperatures climbed into the high 60’s and remained above freezing on the low end. The highest temperature recorded yesterday at the Union Water Power Co. gatehouse was 66 degrees at 4 p.m. after an overnight low of 43 degrees at 6 a.m.

We call to the attention of the appropriate State leaders, and the people of Maine at large, the letter published today on this page and written by Mr. Joseph E. LeMaster regarding the long-delayed project of a State museum. It is good to see Mr. LeMaster agree with other proponents that the museum should be re-established in the Capitol itself, where it was once a valuable adjunct to the seat of our State government. All that is sought now is a modest amount of space, preferably in the Capitol itself, where the museum can be born again. If enough Maine organizations take an interest, and make their interest known to the Governor, the Council and the Legislature, that first step will be assured.

25 Years Ago, 1981

The business is apples and the aim is money, but in the 10 years Jamaicans have picked apples for Eugene and Lois Wallingford in Auburn, the profits have extended beyond the ledger. In addition to dedicated work and easy-going friendliness, the Jamaicans have brought the Wallingfords a new understanding of a culture foreign to Maine. Walter Walker first came to the Wallingfords’ 115-acre orchard atop a picturesque Perkins Ridge in 1971. For six weeks each fall, the 45-year-old Jamaican farmer does what few Americans want to do.