• The baggage record at Old Orchard was broken Aug. 2 by the arrival of 460 pieces, the largest number to be left at this summer resort station in a single day since the baggage master began to keep a record of the pieces received each day during June, July, August and September.

• If some order of monks comes to Lewiston within a few months to start a business college as now expected, it is understood that the Healey Asylum property on Ash and Bates streets will be sold and the buildings converted into the commercial college. A much larger building will then be erected on Skinner Street, where both the boys of the Healey Asylum and girls at the orphan asylum at the Sisters’ Hospital, which is now crowded, can be housed.

50 years ago, 1957

ROCKLAND – The Maine Lobstermen’s Association voted today to keep the Maine coast tied up until a price deadlock with dealers is broken. The flare-up between coastal lobstermen and dealers has been based on the minimum price per pound of the shelled fish. The fishermen seek a 35 cent price, but dealers are currently offering 30 cents.

GREENVILLE – Temperatures hovered just two degrees above freezing at this famed resort area today as Mainers and vacationers shivered in unseasonably cold weather. Portland, 150 miles to the south, tied the 1953 minimum record for the date with 44 degrees. Lowest at Rumford was 39, Presque Isle, 40, and Caribou and Houlton, 41 degrees.

25 years ago, 1982

DURHAM – Thirteen area sheep farmers met Wednesday night at the home of Peter and Barbara Smith to further organize the Maine Lamb Marketing Co-op that is being formed under the auspices of the nonprofit Coastal Enterprises Inc. of Wiscasset. The co-op represents the culmination of a three-year project funded by a Winthrop Rockefeller grant given to help revitalize the sheep industry in New England.