100 Years Ago: 1921 There are a few more season tickets for sale by the guarantors of the Chautauqua which will be available to the public for $2.50 until three o’clock this afternoon after which the price will be $3.30 at the tent of the Chautauqua. The program will open this afternoon with William Rainey […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The appointment of Miss Mildred Whitney of Auburn to serve under the Municipal Health Officer, Dr. Leo A. Hall is the first of this kind in Auburn. Miss Whitney’s selection is generally commended because she has been in the general field, doing private nursing of all kinds, for 11 years, and […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Dr. George M. Twitchell of Monmouth has picked 150 bushels this fall from twenty-two plum trees that he set out in 1909. This is the fifth consecutive big crop. 50 Years Ago: 1971 Those attending the Wednesday noon meeting of the First Auburn Senior Citizens will have the opportunity of seeing […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Saturday was a great day for members of the Auburn Grange. It was the annual field day and the place of meeting was at the Auburn Fish Hatchery. The idea of a literary program for an outdoor field meeting had its day and we are inclined to think forever. People no […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Miss Harriet Andrews of Oxford, 81 years young, has been attending the Empire Grove camp meetings nearly every year for 69 years. When she first came here there were no cottages on the grounds, just society tents surrounding the auditorium. The auditorium contained many rows of seats-planks spiked to log stringers, […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The big organ for St. Michael’s church, Auburn, arrived late last week, and work on installation is now being hurried to a finish. It is expected that the organ will first be heard a week from the coming Sunday. 50 Years Ago: 1971 The First Auburn Senior Citizens have been invited […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Final arrangements are being whipped into line for the illustrated lecture on Ireland to be given at the Elm St. Universalist Church, Auburn, Friday evening. Special musical program is being arranged for the day and several old Irish ballads will be sung. No efforts have been spared to make this a […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The foundation of the Auburn Y.M.C.A. begins to look like business for the forms have been removed from the concrete work along the front and about the top of the granite base. The window frames are in place as far as they are connected with the concrete and already give an […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Mrs. Beatrice Gotham, a domestic science expert, will be at B.Peck Company all next week starting Monday. She points out that the use of grease is not the best in the cooking of meat and griddle cakes. Miss Gotham will demonstrate the cooking and incidentally, this method does away with the […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The free camping grounds for motorists, established this summer at the Maine State Fairgrounds by the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce, are proving a great success and incidentally a big boost for this city. “Tourists from all over the United States and Canada have availed themselves of Lewiston‘s hospitality and are carrying […]