• Stirred by the stories of dime novels in which there was plenty of stabbing fourteen-year-old George Flynn, city farm charge, caused consternation to reign in the school house on the River Road one whole afternoon by threatening to kill the teacher, Miss Kathryn Shea of Oak street Lewiston, by stabbing her with a knife. Cool headedness on Miss Shea’s part linked with heroism spared her life and possibly others.

• UPPER GLOUCESTER – A record breaker was the second day of the 16th annual fair given here by the New Gloucester and Danville Fair Association at any one day in the history of the fair. The exhibits are of the same excellence which has always characterized them. It isn’t a big crowd. Yesterday there were 3,000 people here and it was a record breaker.

50 Years Ago, 1956

WASHINGTON – Major crimes in the United States jumped 14.4 per cent in the first six months of this year, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported today.

Hoover called the new figures a “sharp reversal” noting that the last comparable increase occurred in the first half of 1946.

“If the current trend continues for the remainder of the year, 1956 will be the fifth consecutive year in which more than two million major crimes will have been committed and the first year in which the crime total will reach the 2½ million mark,” the announcement said.

25 Years Ago, 1981

A “new union between the public and private sectors” in Auburn has resulted in continued progress toward the goal of “ordered development,” a representative of the mayor said Friday as he opened the first annual “Autumnfest”

Parks and Recreation Department Director Norris E. Ingersoll, representing Mayor R. Peter Whitmore, cut a bright red ribbon stretched across Spring Street to kick off what is essentially a celebration of the city’s accomplishments in recent years. The three-day event is being sponsored by the Auburn Merchants Committee.