100 years ago, 1913
While out gunning Friday, a Durham man came across something startling, nothing alive and not the wild man, but perhaps the wild man’s clothes. He found a rubber coat, a sou’wester (hat), a pair of rubbers, leather belt, an old leather satchel containing a testament with the name “W.H. Monroe,” some graham buns wrapped in a piece of newspaper, a can with a small piece of lard and a paring knife in it with which to spread the buns no doubt, a weather bureau report post-marked Shiloh, and tied with a cord to use for a handle. The hat was on a dead alder about six feet from the ground and looked almost new. The coat was as good as new, The rubbers were right side up and full of water. The satchel was hung on another tree. There was a ten-pound lard pail, also a five-pound pail. One was tipped over but the other had a few berries in it and about a quart of rain water.

50 years ago, 1963
Leavitt Institute noon game at Jay. A caravan of about 30 cars left the campus at Turner Center staged a big football rally Friday night in anticipation of the Saturday after and traveled through Turner Village, North Turner, Howe’s Corner and back to Leavitt, led by Merton Leavitt’s pickup truck carrying the cheerleaders and squad of costumed male cheerers. On their return to the campus, a bonfire was lit and the cheerleaders took over. About 150 students attended the rally and a dance followed in the gym.

25 years ago, 1988
Some Biddeford and Saco residents traveled north Tuesday night to urge the people of Lewiston to treat with caution the company that runs a waste incinerator in Biddeford and is planning to build one in Lewiston. After listening to almost two hours of impassioned comments from out-of-town visitors and some of the approximately 60 Lewiston residents who packed the council chambers, the City Council voted unanimously against a proposal that the city become a co-applicant with the company, Androscoggin Energy Recovery Co., when it applies to the state for licensing to build the incinerator.