100 Years Ago: 1921

The Auburn Public Library has recently received from Alfred King, of Arlington, N. J., an appropriate poem of our flag. The gift is framed and in the upper part of it is a small flag. It is for the children’s room, which is proving to be popular in the small hall in the upper part of the building that was taken for that purpose. Mr. King is the man who presented the library with the bronze tablet of Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech.

50 Years Ago: 1971

The German born wives of Lewiston and Auburn men have organized a club and elected officers. The members of the club are inviting any woman of German background to join them at their meetings which are held on one Sunday each month. In the group are Mrs. Wolfgang Clauss, president, Mrs. Raymond Callier, treasurer, Mrs. Wallace Shaw, Mrs. Donald Poliquin, Mrs. Herbert Libby, Mrs. Norman Theberge, Mrs. Ernest  True,  Mrs. Morris Zallen and Mrs. Roger Ginchereau, Mrs. Robert Ouellette, Mrs. Robert Leclair and Mrs Zilia Dubois.

25 Years Ago: 1996

Short-term arrangements to educate Poland high school students at Windham beginning this fall were the focus of a School Committee discussion Tuesday evening. Committee Chairman Deborah Valenti said Windham may be able to absorb Poland ninth graders for the next year, after which modular classrooms would be needed until a Poland high school is completed, probably in 1999. She said Poland school officials met last Tuesday with Windham authorities, who are to convene Tuesday for further consideration of the matter.

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