Togus – No more beer for sale at the Soldiers’ Home here is the edict. In common with the other nine soldiers’ homes in the United States, after March 4, the canteens, so called, will be discontinued.

There are 2,700 soldiers enrolled in the Togus home and many are much disgruntled and some of them are saying that things that would not look well in a Sunday school quarterly. But, of course, the majority of them feel sufficient unto the day is the calamity thereof and they continue to drink with the regularity their one, two or three glasses of beer a day.

50 Years Ago, 1956

A recently completed survey by State Highway Department engineers shows traffic has increased the last two years on almost all of the main through streets in Lewiston.

After putting out traffic counters – those black boxes connected to a length of rubber hose which motorists have noticed at many locations – the State Planning Division has revised its estimated average daily traffic flow figure.

Many motorists appear to have started to by-pass Lisbon Street. Traffic on Lisbon near Main Street dropped from 9,620 to 7,740 vehicles a day in the two year period. However, traffic on Lisbon Street near Willow Street showed an increase from 7,400 to 9,887 vehicles a day.

25 Years ago, 1981

The old saying that All the World Loves a Lover was exemplified this week as an estimated 500,000 million people around the world witnessed, by television, a very special love story in the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana of Great Britain. It was a true-life fairy tale as the dashing young prince made his beloved a princess of the realm.

The ceremonies, in the huge St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, were at the same time traditionally ancient and modern. The medieval pageantry was in a modern setting and carried around the globe by the marvels of electronics. Never in history has a wedding attracted such a huge audience.