100 Years Ago: 1922

Auburn citizens interested in the movement to build a road from Dennison Street to the gate at Mt. Auburn Cemetery should attend the council meeting in the city building Monday night at 8 o’clock.

50 Years Ago: 1972

A slipper manufacturing firm, which will employ 40 persons to start and will probably expand later, will take up quarters in Lewiston beginning early September, it was announced today by Mayor Robert W. Clifford and Economic Development Director Francis P. O’Connell.

The new company is the Supreme Slipper of Norwalk, Conn., which has  25,000 square feet of space in the former Hill Mill building on Canal Street.

The firm will employ only cutters and stitchers to start.

25 Years Ago: 1997

Katherine Damon of Lewiston met President Bill Clinton at the American Legion Auxiliary’s 51st session of Girls Nation in July and presented him with special legislation enacted during the weeklong youth citizenship program.

Damon attends Lewiston High School, where she is active in student council, student senate, varsity alpine skiing, varsity Nordic skiing, cross country, track and field, drama club, concert band, marching band and National Honor Society.

A long-standing national government education program, Girls Nation, takes 96 high school junior girls from 48 states and launches them into pseudo political careers for a week. The young women are selected from state-level Girls State programs which are conducted each summer and comprise more than 25,000 students. These senators organize into political parties, elect their party officials and organize a national convention. They coordinate political campaigns, appoint individuals to federal positions. prepare legislation in mock senate sessions and elect a president and vice president.

The week culminates with their visit to the White House where they meet with the president and present legislation they enacted.

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