100 Years Ago: 1922 Workmen were busy Wednesday laying the steel girders for Auburn’s municipal garage at the rear of the city building. 50 Years Ago: 1972 The chimes atop the Northeast Bank branch in Auburn have not been heard of late and there have been numerous inquiries about their cessation. Thomas F. Crowley, bank […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 A troop of boys under the leadership of Warren Jordan,  a well known Lewiston man left Wednesday noon for a four-day hike. They plan to camp at Tripp Pond Wednesday evening, Panther Pond, Raymond, Thursday evening and will start the return trip Friday. The troop consists of Warren Jordan, his son, […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Rice’s Beach, Taylor Pond, is one of the most popular recreation centers for Lewiston-Auburn for young people, who are unable to get away to the seashore or mountains but can snatch an hour or two for a dip in the cool waters of this nearby resort. On Sundays the beach is […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Frank Dingley has just completed a new milk room in the new barn which was recently built at “The Norlands,” in Livermore. The room is finished in white and has a cement floor. It is equipped with an engine, hot and cold water, separator and milking machine, Mr. Dingley has some fine […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 It is the Lewiston Evening Journals treat! Go to the Empire Theatre next week and see Norma Talmadge in her newest picture, “Smilin’ Through,” at this paper’s expense. Be one of the twenty-five who will take advantage of the Lewiston Evening Journal’s offer daily. Here is the way. First obtain from […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 A building is being erected on Pioneer Street by the Village Corporation at West Paris for the purpose of housing the fire apparatus and will also have rooms for the Boy Scouts. The building lot was given W.W. Whittin before he moved to South Paris. 50 Years Ago: 1972 Rap Place […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 All members of the M.Y.O.B. Club met at their camp at Lake Grove Wednesday evening. A splendid entertainment was enjoyed. The second act of the “silent drama” was a great success. The leading parts were taken by Howard Shaw, Harry Kimball of Westbrook, and the Misses Jane Roux and Lucille Fournier. […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Chief Harry Fogg of the Auburn Fire Department has adopted a little time-saver in having the rubber-coats of his men arranged systematically on the trucks. A certain number of places have been marked out numerically and each fireman must process directly to his number and always take the coat there. The […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Guess all the girls lost their courage, or else they were all a bit too plump. At any rate no one asked if they could wear Norma Talmadge’s wedding gown, which she wore in “Smilin’ Through” and it waited anxiously in Abbott Bros. window for an applicant. After today it will […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Weeks of distributing pipe for the new 16-inch water main, which is to be laid from Lake Auburn to the city proper, began on Monday and those living on the high districts of the city will be pleased when this main and the new pumping station are in operation. These improvements […]