About 84 square feet of the wall facing Bartlett street at the basement of the new St. Peter’s Church, Lewiston, caved in, and while no one was injured, it will take several days to repair the damage. It is thought the accident was due to lack of proper bracing.

The Lake Auburn Ice Company is making some changes in its apparatus for hauling ice at Lake Grove. Weston L. Davis of Lewiston, with a crew of about a dozen men is building a set of three double piers. These are 75 feet from shore and 25 feet apart.

50 Years Ago, 1956

The annual Twin City Veterans Day parade will be staged in Lewiston and Auburn.

Have fun…but…be careful with fire. Chow in the deep woods. Tall timber and the aroma of coffee boiling over an open fire. The feeling of contentment after a day in the outdoors. Sportsmen everywhere agree there is fun to be found in the forest. When you are in the woods, have fun, but be careful with fire. Crush out smokes, break your matches to be sure they’re out. Scrape away a bare spot before your campfire, and drench it with water when you leave. Help keep our State Green so all of us can look forward to having fun in the woods next year. Published in the interest of keeping Maine green by the Woodlands Department of the Great Northern Paper Co., Bangor, Maine.

25 Years Ago, 1981

A direct relationship between raising the legal drinking age and a sharp drop in automobile accidents among young drivers has been established in a University of Michigan study. The results are especially interesting for Maine, since this state and Michigan were two which had raised their drinking ages and experienced a big drop in highway accidents. Maine raised its drinking age from 18 to 20 in 1979. It resulted in a 17 percent drop in non-injury, alcohol-related crashes.