100 years ago, 1915
Work toward the completion this year of St. Louis church in Auburn began Monday. Ovide Chevalier of Lewiston has the contract and under his supervision a large crew of men are now laboring. The foundation has been in readiness for the remainder of the building for several years and with a roof over it has been used for the church.
50 years ago, 1965
(PHOTO CAPTION) Sister St. Thomas will have charge of teaching blind children in special classes to be inaugurated at Sacred Heart School next fall. Here she is shown with a group of local blind children who are learning to read and even use a typewriter with the help of the Braille system. Children at the table are being helped by Sister Alice Marie. Sister St. Thomas will take one of the children with her when she addresses St. Mary’s School Alumnae Association Thursday evening. She will speak about the work with children done at the Portland Center for the Blind, of which the Sacred Heart School classes will be a branch, and the child will demonstrate some of the things he has learned.
25 years ago, 1990
Members of a paperworkers’ union who lost their jobs during a bitter 16-month strike against International Paper Co. were expected Sunday to reject a contract offered to hundreds of their replacements. “I think everybody expects the same outcome, a ‘no’ vote,” Ronald Roy, a member of the United Paperworkers International Union Local 19 at Jay, said hours before the scheduled evening vote. Roy, who said he was recalled to his old job at IP last week, is among 137 mill employees who are members of UPIU or the International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers, according to company officials. Also eligible to vote will be about 750 other members who claim rights to be rehired. Most of the roughly 1,100 hourly mill employees who would be affected by the contract were hired as replacement workers during a sometimes-violent strike that ended in October 1988.
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