100 Years Ago: 1920 Parking automobiles will be tried out in Union Square, both in single and in double line, according to an announcement today by Chief Field of the police department. “There will be no attempt to force this thing thru,” said Chief Field to the Lewiston Journal, “We will try the experiment for […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Senior class parts were announced Thursday at Edward Little High School as follows – Ode: Harold Moore; poem, Marcella Harradon; prophecy, Janice Holt; presentation of gifts, Stanley J. Libby; and history, Theodore Paul. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Mrs. Alton G. Savage, well known in the Girl Scout Circles, was the recipient […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The rooms now occupied by Conley and Poisson at the corner of Ash and Park streets are to be converted into a pool room, as soon as the firm moves into its new quarters the first of next month. Windows are to be cut into the Park street side of the […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 No better concert will be given in Lewiston this year than the Boston artists, Edith Bullard and Jacques Hoffman will furnish Wednesday, at 8 p.m., Bates College Chapel. Reserved seats $1.50; other seats $1.00. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Miss Marilyn Wilkinson, who has charge of costuming for the forthcoming production of […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Has anybody lost a wild alligator? There is one loose in Lewlston. Joseph Balinsky of West Rose Hill met the alligator Friday morning. Mr. Balinsky, (not the alligator) was on his way to work. All at once he saw dead ahead on the highway an alligator—a real alligator, very much alive […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 W. H. Ward of Lewiston has opened an up-to-date confectionary and ice cream parlor in the old Callahan, store on Lisbon Street, to be known as Ward’s Spa. Thoroughly modern in equipment, the store is very attractive. A complete line of fancy groceries will also be carried, and fruits in season. […]