100 years ago, 1918

The “All American Meet,” so successfully and splendidly carried out this spring in City Hall, is to be repeated on the afternoon and evening of July 4th at the Maine State fair grounds. This decision was made at a general committee meeting, held Thursday evening. Practically as it was before, but of a larger scale and including more girls … bigger in every way if such a thing is possible is the aim of the general committee. At the time of its first appearance, when City Hall was packed to the limit, and literally hundreds of would-be spectators were turned away at the door, inquiries, suggestions and requests came in from all side, urging a repetition of this spectacular affair, but at the time this did not seem feasible.

50 years ago, 1968

Two Edward Little High School students have been selected to participate in the annual “United Nations Pilgrimage for Youth” to be held in New York City late in June. Marc P. Ayotte, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ayotte, 68 Third Street, and Janet Wilner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Wilner, 69 Dawes Avenue, will be sponsored by Abou Ben Adhem Lodge, IOOF. The two students will be part of a group of 21 delegates from Maine who will leave Portland Sunday, June 23, by bus for United Nations headquarters in New York.

25 years ago, 1993

Everything is going quite well at the new sludge composting facility on Penley Corner road in Auburn, Superintendent Clayton “Mac” Richardson recently told members of the Lewiston-Auburn Pollution Control Authority. There have been few problems and even the two mechanical turners that move the composting material down the long bays are now both working properly after a broken drive shaft on one was repaired.

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