100 Years Ago: 1922 Members of Mary Dillingham Chapter are anticipating with much pleasure the annual outing to the Bryant home on Webster Road Saturday all day. Auburn members will meet at Getchell’s Drug Store at 10 o’clock (daylight savings time) and Lewiston, at Peck’s store, five minutes later. Transportation will be by Leonard Ott’s […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 The letters “l-i-b-r-a-r-y” have been formed on the lawn fronting the Pine Street side of the Lewiston Public Library. They have been planted with flowers and are due soon to bloom, as in past years. 50 Years Ago: 1972 Between four and five hundred Cub Scouts in the Abnaki District assembled […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Jews in Lewiston-Auburn celebrated Friday the Feast of Shabaoth or the Pentecost, giving thanks for an abundant harvest in Palestine in Biblical days. 50 Years Ago: 1972 Badges and cookie sales awards were presented to the girls of Scout Troop 270 at their final meeting of the season  held recently at the […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 How is this for a story? When Mrs. Charles Wheeler of Tenants Harbor went to the hen house a few days ago to gather up her hen fruit she found an egg in the nest that measures 7-1/2 by 9 inches and weighed 6 ounces. Can any of the readers beat […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 The annual strawberry festival will be given by the Ladies Social Union of the Sixth street church Thursday evening. Supper at 6:30 is in charge of Mrs. Ada Shaw will include cold meats and salad also. 50 Years Ago: 1972 The Rumford School Garden club will hold an entertainment in the […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 One dark night not long-ago Mrs. EH. Hodgkins, Coburn street, Auburn, heard the bell ring. and going to the door found, not a May basket filled with good things, but a large bag containing a snow white coon cat, with a blue ribbon around his neck, bearing a card stating its […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Bert Weymouth of Portland, formerly a linotype machinist at The Sun, has invented a new part to be used on all linotype machines with the outside galley which is working most satisfactually. 50 Years Ago: 1972 (From a Journal photo) The young ladies in the photo were recently elected officers of […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 The Ruby-throated hummingbird is easily reared as a pet, and some time ago I found a single young female in a nest in an oak tree that had been built in a piece of woods. Upon taking it home R.W. Shufeldt writes in the American Forestry magazine, “I experienced no trouble […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 Led by Thomas Leonard of the boy’s department of the Auburn YMCA and Arvard Rohan, physical director will leave the YMCA at 9 am this morning for a walk to Deer Rips power plant and the Androscoggin River where they will inspect the plant, eat lunch and continue along the river […]

100 Years Ago: 1922 H.A. Shorey, Jr., Augusta. Chief State Motor Vehicle Department and Lyman H. Nelson, Portland, members of State Highway Commission were the principal speakers last evening following the banquet held by the L&A Automobile Association and Allied Towns at the Androscoggin Electric Co. building, Main Street. Their subjects, respectively, were Motor Rules […]