Read more about Dec. 31, 1942, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1922 Postmaster Bryant announces that there will be no mail deliveries on Monday, New Year’s Day. It has been customary, he explains, to deliver to the business places, but this will not be done this year, as the stores will all be […]

Read more about Dec. 30, 1922, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1922 Daniel Chapin, superintendent of the Norway Town Farm, is proud of a fine family of White Chester pigs, the father, mother and 13 little ones, writes a Norway correspondent. 50 Years Ago: 1972 For 35-year-old Attorney Robert W. Clifford the first […]

Read more about Dec. 29, 1942, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1922 Auburn residents returning to their homes while the snowstorm was at its height last night were compelled to walk in the car tracks which were kept clean by snow plows because the sidewalks in the Shoe City were covered with drifts […]

Read more about Dec. 28, 1922, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1922 Matthew Maney of Pleasant Street, Auburn, has received from a friend in Fresno, Calif., a chest of fruits from that state. The chest measures more than a yard long by two feet across. It contains dates, figs, prunes, each unusually large […]

Read more about Dec. 27, 1922, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1922 The Rev, Dr. George F. Finnie, pastor of the United Baptist church of Lewiston was made the unanimous choice of the Lewiston-Auburn Kiwanians for president of the club for the coming year, at the annual election Wednesday noon at the Auburn […]

Read more about Dec. 26, 1947, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1922 The Fore Street Sewing club held a most enjoyable Christmas party at Mrs. Wellington Twitchell’s Thursday afternoon. Thirty members and guests enjoyed the program. 50 Years Ago: 1972 President Nixon proclaimed Thursday as a National Day of Mourning for former President […]

Read more about Dec. 24, 1947, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1922 Work of flooding the Court and Goff Street municipal skating rink in Auburn progresses steadily and the sheet of ice will soon be ready for the skaters. Children cannot wait for the completion of the rink, and have been testing it […]

Read more about Dec. 23, 1943, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1922 The annual Christmas festivities at Bowdoin College, closed tonight, with a dance at the gymnasium. About 150 couples attended. The decorations were of red and green, the holiday scheme being carried out elaborately and with pleasing effect. Each fraternity had a […]

Read more about Dec. 22, 1932, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1922 Mrs. Marjorie Saucier, 70 Lowell Street entertained the Waneta Club at its annual Christmas party Thursday evening, making the affair gentlemen’s night. The rooms were beautifully decorated with evergreen and Christmas colors and they were indeed effective. A huge tree in […]

Read more about Dec. 21, 1922, in the SunJournal.com archives. 100 Years Ago: 1922 Mrs. Edith Nutting was hostess to the Current Events Club at her Middle Street home in Norway on Wednesday afternoon. Tho feature of the meeting was a splendid paper on “Recent Fiction,” read by Miss Andrews of Augusta. 50 Years Ago: […]