A saloon recently established on Campobello Island by two enterprising Eastporters was raided by a number of the island folks Sunday evening, the fittings of the bar were demolished and the supply of liquor dumped into the bay, says the Bangor Commercial. The Canadian islanders are determined that Campobello shall not become a stamping ground for American booze dispensers who are not allowed to carry on business at home and, as the authorities have been rather slow in suppressing the sale of liquor on the island, the people took matters into their own hands with great success.

50 Years Ago, 1955

Portsmouth, N.H. – The USS Sailfish, the Navy’s first submarine built for radar patrol duty, was launched today at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The 1,950 ton, 350 foot conventionally powered ship was christened by the wife of Vice Adm. Lynde D. McCormick, president of the Newport, R. I., Naval War College and former Supreme allied commander of Atlantic forces under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The sub, whose keel was laid December, 1953, will be equipped with the most modern radar and electronic facilities.

25 Years Ago, 1980

There is a slogan among fans of the Grateful Dead, known as “Dead Heads,” which proclaims “There is Nothing Like a Grateful Dead Concert,” and observers in the Lewiston-Auburn area can probably now understand it. When the band arrived in Lewiston for the Maine Music Festival a virtual army of fans followed. Regaled in denim and t-shirts, toting packs, and waving banners sporting the traditional Grateful Dead insignias – roses, skeletons, and other graphic works – more than 26,000 people, many in their 30s, and some from California, appeared at the Lewiston Fairgrounds for a counter-cultural event that has been witnessed in Europe and the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and recorded in a movie.