100 Years Ago: 1920 Reports that the recent increase in the number of Intoxicated persons in Lewiston and Auburn was due to importations of contraband whiskey brought from the Province of Quebec by autotrucks is not true. Some “Canadian high wine” leaks are occasional, but Lewiston and Auburn are free from whiskies of the old […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Laying of 20,000 gallons of oil on the dirty streets of Lewiston has started. The oil, ordered since April, arrived in time to start the distribution Tuesday. Work was continued thru the night and will be rushed until it is completed. The night is the best time for such work, traffic […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 There is every indication that this is to be the best year ever for the Bates College Summer school for teachers. Last night there was a total registration of more than 77 and the regular classes will start today. Many had registered in advance and the enrollments are still being added. […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Conditions at the Auburn police station have been improved by recent changes in the general arrangement. The room at the corner, used as a private office for the Chief of Police, is now the machine room. The larger office that had been intended for the Police Matron, is occupied by the […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Work was started yesterday on the grading of the grounds around the new city building in Auburn. Repairs and alterations have been started at the Auburn Public Library. Steps leading to the front terraces from Spring Street are being installed and changes are also to be made on the interior arrangement. […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Although authorized by a special act of congress, Maine’s Centennial half-dollars designed and Intended as special souvenirs for distribution during the period of the celebration, have not arrived in Portland yet nor, it is understood, have they been coined. As for the cause for the non-arrival of the coins, and those […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Never mind if you forget to wind your watch, you can’t miss your appointment, if you go by the big new clock on the B. Peck building. This clock is one of the famous B. Howard made, noted the world over for its accuracy and general time keeping qualities, The dial […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 The beans which helped to make the Fourth of July dinner given by North Auburn grange famous, were baked in the ground by Fred Packard of that place. Mr. Packard is an expert in that line and many of those who partook of the Monday dinner were heard to remark upon […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 It has been announced that Bradford Peck of Lew!ston has been invited to address the convention of the Committee of Forty-Eight to be held in Chicago on July 10. 50 Years Ago: 1970 R. I. Mitchell of Auburn, has bought the home of Dr. Frederick Holler at 41 Marshall Ave., Auburn […]

100 Years Ago: 1920 Altho no definite statement for publication has been made by any member of the building committee, it is understood upon good authority that work on Auburn’s YMCA building will not begin this year. Many changes in the orlglnal plans will be necessary, and there are reasons making inadvisable or even possible […]