100 Years Ago: 1921 Will baseball games and all other forms of athletic competition likely to evoke applause be forbidden on the Lewiston Athletic park? Daylight Saving and twilight baseball have brought up a problem that the Committee on the Athletic Park will have to settle in a few days. Baseball can now be played […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The Salvation Army would appreciate it very much if the “Mrs. Gibson” who purchased a chest of drawers of Adjutant Fowler Wednesday will return the velvet coat stored in one of the drawers. Adj. Fowler did not look in the drawers when he sold the piece of furniture, and one of […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The meeting of the Doughnut Club which was to have been held at the home of Mrs. Frank S. Hoy, 539 Sabattus street, last evening, has been postponed for one week. 50 Years Ago: 1971 When St. Philip’s Parish was established in Auburn in 1968, the parish accepted the invitation of […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Excellent progress is being made in the re-paving on Main Street, Auburn. Many yards have already been laid and will soon be ready for traffic, presenting a much smoother surface. The re-paving work has hindered traffic to some degree. 50 Years Ago: 1971 The annual fishing derby, sponsored by the Auburn […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Lisbon Falls and Durham yesterday adopted daylight saving and the Pejepscot paper company has decided to put all of the mills, Topsham,  Pejepscot and Lisbon, on the new time. Saturday the town of Brunswick will hold a special town meeting to consider adopting daylight all the time. The banks, stores and […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 The first well-opened apple-blossoms were open here this week. 50 Years Ago: 1971 The Women’s Literary Union will close its season with a Membership Tea and Guest Day on Thursday, at the Auburn Clubhouse. The speaker will be Mrs. Claude Labonte of Gamache & Lessard, who will speak on window treatments […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 A mass meeting of subscribers to stock in the Martindale Holding Company which is financing the Country Club project for Lewiston and Auburn, will be in the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce rooms at 7.30 o’clock Thursday night. Fred Chisholm will report on his temporary golf course, which it is expected will […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 E.L. Smith, cashier of the Shoe and Leather Bank of Auburn, recently received a May basket in the form of a box of chocolates and a bouquet of carnations from the clerks at the bank. The whole company was invited into the home and spent a most enjoyable evening. 50 Years Ago: 1971 Miss […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Auburn motorists will have to drive with one eye on their speedometer from now on. Officer Bubier made his first two arrests Saturday and Sunday, and the motorists answered to charges in the Auburn municipal court. Signs have been placed in conspicuous positions on every road leading into the city, and […]

100 Years Ago: 1921 Those surprising springtime fairy forsythias, are blooming everywhere. Only a day or two ago and their bare, bleak branches branched out lean arms that gave no hint of even a bud. Almost overnight the pale yellow blossoms covered them from top to bottom. The air is full of delicate perfume where […]