100 Years Ago: 1920 Greene Patrons of Husbandry are looking forward to the program prepared for Thursday evening at Androscoggin Grange Hall, when Maine Centennial Day will be celebrated. After preliminary opening, it is expected that the program will be open to the public. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Auburn Building Inspector, Ralph B. Emery issued […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Mrs. Octavia Beals, 83 years old, was one of the women registrants Wednesday. Mrs. Beal is unusually active physically and mentally for her years. She in a native of Leeds and for many years lived in Monmouth having been at one time manager of the Monmouth town farm. She has been […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Ham Sweezy said he didn’t have such a doggone good time at the church ice-cream festival as he might have had. He sat down in a dish of ice-cream and now he has chilblains. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Pounding hammers and cutting saws were heard at Auburn police headquarters. The arrival […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The ladles will be the special guests at a “shirt-waist” event to be held at the Shrine Club on the evening of Sept. 2nd. The affair will be informal and dancing and whist will be the order of the evening. McLuer’s orchestra will furnish music for dancing which  will range all the […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The strike of laborers at the construction site plan the Bates Manufacturing which started Monday over a reduction in wages of 10 cents an hour, has been settled satisfactorily and the men are back to work, according to a statement today, by the superintendent of construction. The basis for adjustment was […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 A baby clinic conducted by Lewiston and Auburn Red Cross chapter, exactly after the manner of that already established at the headquarters will be opened Friday in New Auburn. Dr. Leo Hall, health officer of Auburn saw the need for a clinic of the  kind before he began his duties as a […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 When you are in town, call at the Central Pool Room & Shoe Shining Parlors at the Corner of Park and Ash Streets and see and hear the new Violano Virtuoso Self-Player Plano. It’s big and great— come in today. 50 Years Ago: 1970 “The student policy dress code” at Edward […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Another tribute to Maine’s scenic attractions is paid by the Boston Transcript, which had this to say with regard to the proposal of Mount Katahdin as a national park. The Transcript says: In these days of 75 cent butter one reads with envy In Thoreau’s journal of seventy-five years ago about […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The largest baseball park in the world will be built in this city for the New York Americana, it was learned today. Col. Jacob Ruppert of the Yankees, who attended a special meeting of the American League in Philadelphia yesterday where the proposal was given official sanction, would not indicate where the […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 A derailed freight car at the corner of Dennison and Turner Streets, where repairs are being made on the track, hindered city traffic for a while Friday afternoon. 50 Years Ago: 1970 Three prominent Lewiston-Auburn businessmen are currently in the planning stages for a testimonial for Richard Dennis of Auburn, general […]