A poker room in the Grand View House in Rumford Falls, was raided and eleven men arrested, including Ultric Chartrand and his son, John Chartrand of Lewiston. Several of the members of the party escaped the officers. The cases will be heard in court. The raid was made by two police, one deputy sheriff and three Sturgis deputies, including Rev. A. S. Bisbee.

The Allans have transferred the winter sailings of their London and Havre steamship service from Portland, Me., to St. John, N.B. The first steamer, the Sarmatian, is now on the way to this port. Later the Sarmatian will be taken off and the service will be confined by the Sardinian and the Pomeranian, giving one sailing for Havre via Halifax and London every three weeks. The business is chiefly high class.

50 Years Ago, 1956

The Snowcraft Company, located on Tannery Street in Norway, the largest manufacturer of snowshoes in the world, has been sold to the Garland Manufacturing Company of Saco.

The U. S. Dollar touched a 23-year low today. It took only 95 27/32 Canadian cents to buy a U. S. dollar. Foreign exchange traders attributed the Canadian dollar’s strength in part to recent borrowings in the United States by Canadian firms attracted by lower U. S. interest rates.

25 Years Ago, 1981

Hundreds of thousands of government employees, from filing clerks to White House spokesmen, were abruptly laid off, casualties in the day-long spending standoff between President Reagan and Congress. Their mass exodus left the business of government in tatters. The mass unemployment ended as quickly as it began and amounted to little more than an afternoon off. By voting in early evening to continue federal spending at the old level until Dec. 15 – an option that Reagan termed acceptable – Congress averted what might have been a costly pre-holiday furlough for many of the 2.9 million federal employees.