100 Years Ago: 1922 Wassee cottage in Norway is closed for the season, after a successful run. Next year the popular wayside cottage will open bigger and busier. They are to extend the veranda several feet over the water and also enlarge the kitchenette and dining room. 50 Years Ago: 1972 Dr. Charles F. Phillips, […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 The frost at Minot Center destroyed all the corn left standing the past week. 50 Years Ago: 1972 (from an Oct. 2 Journal photo) Lewiston’s high school is more than 60 percent completed and the size of the building — the largest single educational building in Maine — is most impressive. […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 The Salvation Army will hold its annual Harvest festival, today, Sunday and Monday at its hall on Middle Street. The hall decorations are of fruits and farm products. Even live chickens and eggs are included. All these things have been contributed by the farmers and merchants of the two cities, and […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 W. L. Harwood picked a quart of delicious raspberries Thursday afternoon in South Harpswell while on an afternoon hike. He made the find near a deserted farm house. They were in a protected place and he said they looked so nice that he considered sometime before picking them. These were evidently […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 The 19th exhibition of the reorganized Farmers Club will be held on the trotting park next Tuesday. Besides a big cattle show, there will be a hall display, pulling matches and other features.  Automobiles will meet the electric cars at Bachelder’s Crossing to carry people to the grounds. 50 Years Ago: […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 It is reported that Merrymeeting Bay is full of ducks and that the gunners are having good sport there. 50 Years Ago: 1972 The Navy’s official orchestra, “The Commodores,” will present a concert at the Edward Little High School gymnasium at eight o’clock Wednesday evening. Oct. 11. Sponsored by the Edward […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 The ladies circle of the High St. Methodist M.E. Church will hold a dollar social Thursday evening with entertainment and light refreshments. The Dorcas Society will hold an all day sewing meeting in the parish house Wednesday, with a picnic luncheon at noon. 50 Years Ago: 1972 The Bakerstown Grant Historical […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Members of the boys department of the Auburn Y.M.C.A. hiked to Taylor Pond Friday afternoon where they planned to enjoy a corn roast around the campfire later in the evening. 50 Years Ago: 1972 (from a Sun Journal photo) Rabbi Norman Geller of Congregation Beth Abraham and his family are seen […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Monday night will be the “Get Acquainted” meeting of the Lewiston-Auburn Business and Professional Women’s Club. It will be a supper meeting and Mrs. Hazel Libby will be the guest speaker to the club members. Mrs. Libby is a dress designer of New York and if the club is sufficiently interested […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 No more hazing at Edward Little High School, say the students. In assembly, the students on Friday adopted resolutions that the custom of rushing freshmen over the bank “be forever stopped, so far as our acts and influence are concerned.” “It’s a good time to stop it” said L. E. Moulton […]