• For the big labor fair which will be open tonight in City Hall the special committee on arrangements completed plans at last night’s meeting. The fair will be formally opened tonight in City Hall and will continue for three days. Attractive entertainments will be given each evening and there will be many features.

• The Auburn Socialists met in caucus last night and nominated a ticket for the coming election. L. H. Duran was chairman of the caucus and W. R. Pickering, secretary. There was a very good attendance and the usual interest was manifested.

50 Years Ago, 1956

I LOVE YOU spells trouble for the postman.

That’s because the hearts and lace everyone’s mailing today don’t fit into regular size envelopes. Fat valentines, covered with satin, huge comic valentines, square ones, small ones, long narrow ones – the postmen are shuffling them all around, canceling them by hand and staggering under a double load.

Even cupid could think twice before starting to deliver the about 62,000 pieces of mail crammed into the post office boxes in the Twin Cities yesterday – about 22,000 in Auburn and about 40,000 in Lewiston.

25 Years Ago, 1981

Couples both young and old who plan to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day this year will have difficulty escaping the rising cost of their celebration of romance, as inflation and the rules of supply and demand have caused prices to rise for almost all of the customary forms of revery.

Take flowers, if you can afford them. All of the three Lewiston-Auburn florists contacted admitted that the cost of the traditional St. Valentine’s Day flower, the long-stemmed rose, has gone up this year.

Two of the florists did not have exact figures on how much the costs have risen, but they quoted today’s price at $30 and $40 a dozen, respectively. The third florist said the prices have risen over the year from $30 (in a vase) and $25 (boxed) to $40 and $35, respectively, for long-stemmed roses.