100 years ago, 1915
The passing of the livery stable at the end of North bridge in Auburn, known for many a generation as the Bradbury stable, is the passing of a landmark. When the door closed Monday and the sign was posted “moved etc.” it meant a good deal. Who can remember when there was a toll house there and the toll keeper used to be the guardian of the falls and the river? Russ Bradbury was proprietor of the stable on this spot for more than one generation. A list of funeral corteges that have been decked out in this stable would make a pretty good necrology of Lewiston and Auburn. The sides of the old stable that have stood many a flood are bulging dangerously. No narrower escape was ever experienced by any building than this in 1896 when floods carried the bridges away.

50 years ago, 1965
A 1962 van truck containing a load of expensive furniture was heavily damaged, and the furniture reduced to kindling wood early this afternoon, when the vehicle rolled down a hill and headlong into a tree. Edward Connors, 21, of Portland told authorities he had parked the truck on a hill a short distance from the building in which he was working. About an hour later, someone observed the truck rolling down the hill and saw it hit the tree. The vehicle was unoccupied at the time. Police reported that the 1962 vehicle sustained an estimated $1,000 damage, as the entire front end was wrecked. The load of furniture, destined for a Lewiston address, was totally destroyed. Its value was estimated at $12,000.

25 years ago, 1990
A Dublin, Ohio, education official was picked Sunday by the School Committee to replace retiring Auburn Superintendent of Schools Roy D. Loux. Rick E. Fenton, 38, will start July 1 in the $68,000 job. Fenton is director of personnel for the Dublin public school system, a district of about 7,000 students.

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