“We’ve sold four times as many yellow shoes as we expected to,” says a local shoe dealer, “there is great demand for them especially during the past few days, as there certainly is no mistaking the fact that tan shoes are cooler than black ones. I expect that another summer yellow shoes will be generally worn for a street shoe.

The custom of eating out of doors under some shady apple tree is being adopted by many people in the two cities this summer and even if the whole family do not eat out doors it is not an infrequent sight to see the little tots seated on the steps or in some shady nook eating their bread and milk and berries.

50 Years Ago, 1954

Everyone hears them speak many times a year but few in the Twin Cities know their names.

Anna, the largest of the bells in the tower of SS. Peter and Paul Church, tolls at funerals and her deep-throated overtones support the peal of the four smaller bells when they all ring for weddings, baptisms or high Mass.

The bells – Petrus, Ludovicus, Joannes Baptista, Augustinus and Anna, were ordered slightly more than 70 years ago, in June 1884. The name of each bell is cast on its side.

Made at Baltimore, Md., the bells were shipped north by “Boston boat.” A copy of the original order shows that it was placed by Rev. A. L. Morhom and that 50 feet of rope was purchased for each of the five bells so that they could be rung by hand.

Cast on the largest bell are the words “Hujus Prima Loci Plebem Campana Vocavi Ad Verum Christi Coetum Ritusque Verendos” -To this place shall the bell first call the people, testifying to the true spirit of Christ and His ritual.

25 Years Ago, 1979

Lewiston may get the jump on other American towns and cities competing to fix up municipal parks and recreation facilities from a limited pool of federal dollars in a park renovation program still on the drawing boards.

Although final guidelines have still not been drawn up, Congress has earmarked $20 million for the Urban Parks and Recreation Recovery Program in 1979, a program which city officials feel may be especially suitable to Lewiston’s needs.

And at its first meeting Thursday, the city’s special steering committee appointed by Mayor Lillian Caron to investigate the program discussed a strategy that may give Lewiston an inside track on qualifying for a grant.