From early Monday evening until midnight the city of Lewiston was in darkness. And as a result pedestrians and teams alike were obliged to feel their way along the best they could. As a result of the “pitch dark” condition of the streets more than one accident occurred. One Main street lady was returning to her home, when she stepped over the curbing, losing her balance and fell to the ground sustaining quite severe injuries. She was taken to a neighboring house and later removed to her own home in a carriage.

The cause of no lights, was low water. At the Lewiston pumping station it was stated that there was no sufficient water to run the lights and that not before midnight would the water rise sufficiently to enable them to start the machinery.

50 Years Ago, 1955

Some 160 Lewiston youngsters today will paint Halloween or autumn scenes on windows of Lewiston stores in the annual competition sponsored by the Lewiston Recreation Director Nathaniel J. Crowley.

A total of 164 persons, from grade one through the high schools, signed up Saturday for the window painting contest and the contestants will have until 4:30 this afternoon to complete their art.

Awards, three prizes for each of three divisions, will be announced at the Halloween parties at Lewiston Memorial Armory for the high school students and at the city hall auditorium for pupils below high school age.

25 Years Ago, 1980

PUTNAM Conn. – When Johnny Carson gets bleeped on the “Tonight Show” by the NBC censor, Mark Kuluga and Portus Barlow III don’t have to read lips to know what he said.

While most Americans saw only snippets of the Moscow Olympics on television, Kuluga and Barlow watched for hours.

With a 12-foot-wide, dish-shaped antenna in their backyard, Kuluga, 21, and Barlow, 32, can hone in on a constant shower of microwaves beamed to earth by eight video-producing satellites parked over the equator.