Mosquitoes, black flies, and all other annoying insects will have to take to the tall grass before many days for the “peek-a-boo” is in Lewiston and vicinity.

Lewiston and Auburn people so far as known have not yet suffered from the bite of the latest carnivorous insect to infest summer resorts though it is claimed the despised bug has reached Maine and will soon begin his work in earnest.

The “peek-a-boo” bug is an insect, no a fad. The insect was given its name because it delights to feed on many cases of pink flesh that dot the deserts of most shirt waists and open work stockings. The arrival of the bug in the vicinity of Lewiston and Auburn does not mean that the peek-a-boo waists have just reached here but that the temperatures of late has been very favorable for the rapid growth of number of bugs.

50 Years Ago, 1956

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An aviation medicine expert at Ohio State University believes the first space flight will be made within 20 years.

Dr. Earl T. Carter, an aviation medicine instructor, says physiologists and engineers are working together to prepare men and machines for travel into outer space.

NEWFIELD – Reports of radioactivity in outcroppings on the mountain west of here on Route 11 were confirmed Friday at a special town meeting by state Geologist John Rand of the University of Maine.

Rand said he was forwarding some of the “radioactive rocking test spot” he had surveyed in Maine. Whether uranium is present in commercially profitable quantities is still a question.

25 Years Ago, 1981

The Postal Service has given all dog owners fair warning that biting the postman will not be tolerated.

In fact, postal carriers will be encouraged to redress in court!

In Lewiston, Postmaster Roland Metayer considers dog attacks on postmen “definitely” a problem. He noted that this year 22 percent of the accidents which caused employees to lose time at work were caused by dogs.