The shipment of ice from the Kennebec has been going on steadily, and several houses have been emptied, including the Old Orchard, Green’s Ledges, Hawthorne, Lincoln, Modoc, Hodges and Swan Island. Shipment’s commenced last week at the Rich and Randolph houses, and is continued at the Berry, Iceboro, Cedar Grove and Stearn’s Point houses, some of these being half emptied. Shipments are being made at the rate of 5,000 tons a day, and all the ice on the river will be shipped.

50 Years Ago, 1956

Auburn public schools will have four different starting hours when classes are resumed next Wednesday.

High school students will start at the usual hour of 8 a.m. and the school day will be completed at 1 p.m.

The first platoon at Fairview School will start at 8 a.m. and continue to noon. The second platoon will start at 12:30 p.m. and the school day will end for these pupils at 4:30 p.m.

Junior primary students who will attend Fairview also will do so under the platoon system. The morning class will start at 8:50 a.m. and children will be dismissed at 11:20 a.m. The afternoon class will be from 12:30 to 2:45 p.m.

Pupils at the Lincoln School which accommodates a large number of bus students, will start school 15 minutes earlier than the regular starting time in other schools. This is principally due to the bus schedules. Classes there will start at 8:30 a.m. and run through to 11:45 a.m. The extra 15 minutes will be in the morning session. The afternoon hours are 12:45 to 2:45 p.m.

25 Years Ago, 1981

There might be a certain romanticism that grew up around the hobo lore of the Great Depression, but a vagrant’s life, at least in Lewiston, is hardly something to be idealized.

Usually in their late 40s or older, primarily male and sometimes alcoholic, a tiny subculture lives in the very woodwork of Lewiston’s inner city. They sleep in hallways, vacant buildings, under porches, or in cheap rooming houses. Their lives are penniless and solitary, disintegrating slowly.