100 Years Ago: 1920 The regular meeting of Lake View Grange, Auburn, was held Saturday night with 60 members present. DurIng the evening the following program was furnished: Song by the grange, “State of Maine”; poem, Mrs. George Pitman; question, “He  resolved that people have more comfort and enjoy life better today than they did […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Lewiston-Auburn people are anticipating the pleasure of hearing one of our own, Raoul Dufall, tenor, who will be featured in a concert given in his honor at City Hall, Tuesday evening. Mr. Dufall, youngest concert tenor in the state, has attracted wide attention and highest praise wherever he has appeared. His […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Country roads are said to be in very good condition for this season of the year, and in several of the towns patrols are busy dragging the roads, removing the loose stones and smoothing down the rough places. 50 Years Ago: 1970 The Auburn Parks and Recreation Department will sponsor a […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The Lewiston Journal will on Saturday issue a football extra containing reports of the Colby-Bates game in Lewiston, the Gardiner High-Edward Little game in Auburn, and final scores of important football contests throughout the country. It will be one of the most complete sporting extras the Lewiston Journal has ever printed. Watch […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 “The Androscoggin and Hill mills will tonight shut down for the remainder of the week, thus placing them upon a four-day-a-week basis, The Continental Mills shut down Wednesday night, thus placing them upon a three-day basis. At the executive offices of the Bates Manufacturing Company it was stated: “Our crochet quilt […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 One of the most forceful characters interpreting Western roles that the screen has ever known, Tom Mix can attribute his popularity with theater-goers the country over to his sincerity and the naturalness with which he enacts every role that is entrusted in his care. From the outset of his career Mix […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Members of the institution Jacque Cartier society will have their golden jubilee celebration in two years, and a big and elaborate celebration is planned. It is expected a committee will be appointed soon, and plans made to entertain the 1,100 members. The society is a local organization and was founded by […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Don’t forget that all roads lead to the Topsham Fair Grounds next Tuesday. Everything is ready for the happy good time that is always found at this exhibition. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said today the Pentagon hopes to eliminate draft calls by mid-1973. He also […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 School Street in Auburn was recently paved with brick fenced off while the concrete was hardening. A lane along the side was left open for persons living on the street, and a careless motorist instead of going up one more street drove  on the new paving and broke off a large […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Rosario Giguere of Horton Street will leave next Wednesday for Chicago, where he will enter the Chicago Engineering School Works and study engineering. He has received news from Chicago telling him that he won the free scholarship course in his last examinations contest out of several thousand who competed. 50 Years […]