Sabattus – Rum, rowdyism and drunkenness are the three words that characterize the conditions alleged to exist in this usually quiet berg. Many of the leading citizens are indignant and declare their patience has been tried to the limit. They say Sturgis Commissioner Oakes has been notified, but has taken no action.

• Picking red clover blossoms, the medicinal properties of which are said to be unlimited is proving quite a popular pastime for some of the Newport young ladies, who doubtless will be pictures of perfect health by next spring time, if they persevere in drinking clover tea all winter, as several have announced their intentions to do.

50 years ago, 1957

The disclosure by Park Director Harold J. Dyer that 83,000 more people visited Maine’s State parks, up to Sept. 1, than for the same period last year, is both good and bad news.

It is good news to find more and more people taking advantage of the State’s recreational facilities. It is bad news to find Mr. Dyer saying that some of the picnic and camping accommodations are already “saturated” at various times during the summer. Added to the increasing over-use of Acadia National Park, it confronts the State with a serious future recreational problem.

25 years ago, 1982

• The National Football League Players Association called a strike against the league Monday and said it would shut down the regular season beginning Tuesday. Gene Upshaw of the Los Angeles Raiders, president of the union, announced the action following a two-hour meeting of the union’s executive board. “No practices, no work-outs, no games will be played until management engages in good-faith bargaining.”

• Railroad supervisors tried to keep passengers and perishable goods moving Sunday as a strike by 26,000 engineers reduced train traffic to a crawl in much of the nation and threatened service for more than 100,000 Monday morning commuters.