100 Years Ago: 1920 The large addition to the barn at Highmoor Farm in Monmouth, one of the State’s experimental stations, is practically completed. It is in the form of a wing 80 feet in length, and 36 feet wide. Cross breeding of cattle with the Angus and other beef types will be carried out.  […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Several disabled soldiers now at the Androscoggin Sanatorium are to give a military dance at the Mystic Ballroom Nov. 19 for the purpose of establishing a relief fund. The Red Cross is aiding the soldiers to make the affair a success. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Groundbreaking ceremonies will be held at […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The new dam now being built on the falls by the Union Water Power Co. will be completed in about a month. This latest dam will complete the chain of dams from the Lewiston riverbank to the large island. The small island is now being blasted away but little will remain. […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Dr. J. A. Ness of Auburn shipped a carload of Holstein cows to Providence, R.I. Friday. They were a fine lot that he picked up for a special customer in that State. The lot consisted of 18 in number. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Mrs. Carlton B. Ring of Auburn is Twin […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Carl Prince and son, Donald, of Turner, have raised over two thousand bushels potatoes this season. 50 Years Ago: 1970 (From a photo caption) 11-year-old John Capen, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Capen of 4 Poliquin Ave. Auburn proudly displays his first deer, a 116 pound, two point buck, which he bagged […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 (From an ad in the Journal) Wanted: Carpenters, 80c an hour, 10 hour day, pay for 11 hours. Bricklayers, $1.00 an hour, 9 hour day, pay for 10 hours. TURNER CONSTRUCTION C0. Lisbon Falls, Me. 50 Years Ago: 1970 A South Vietnamese general said today he believes all U.S. combat troops can be […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The Girls’ Glee Club, recently organized at the YWCA, of which Miss Hazel Woodbury is the director, will hold its first meeting at 8 o-clock-Tuesday evening at the Blue Triangle in Auburn. This singing club has been gotten together for fun and to promote sociability, and also to bring out the […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The latest report of garden crops out of season comes from Mrs. Ida Strout of  Cook street, Auburn.  She picked five nice cucumbers yesterday and she still has a good lot of green pea blossoms. 50 Years Ago: 1970 The monthly meeting of the Maine Dairy Club will be held Monday at 8’clock at […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The Mystery Club members were delightfully entertained by Helen Meserve at her home on Webster Street Friday night. The first thing to greet them as they entered the house was a large ghost. The house was decorated in attractive Halloween colors, autumn leaves and Jack-o- lanterns, the rooms being dimly lit […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The Stanton Bird club will have an invitation night at Chase hall tonight and Dr. Arthur Norton, curator of the Portland Society of Natural History, will give an illustrated lecture on some of the birds of Maine. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Auburn Police Chief Stephen Smyc has received a ‘thank you […]