At 9 o’clock in the morning the Lewiston Board of Mayor and Aldermen will meet to consider the mental condition of a young man who a few weeks ago attempted to set fire to the Hill Mill and was taken to the police station. It was believed that he was suffering from mental derangement and was not responsible for his acts. If he is sent to the insane asylum at Augusta, he will be the 28th patient to have entered the state asylum for the insane from Lewiston during the last 20 months. This is an alarming record and the constantly increasing number of cases of insanity in Lewiston is attracting wide attention.

50 years ago, 1957

• A two-alarm fire swept the interior of Vincent Fruit Co. Inc. building at 29 Lincoln St., causing damage estimated unofficially at upwards of $10,000. Lost in the blaze, apparently caused by one of two portable oil heaters in a first-floor office, was considerable fruit and produce. The inside of the building, which also houses Crusader Tomato Co., was badly damaged.

• WASHINGTON – Someone has figured that mix-ups due to terrible handwriting cost the business men of this nation 70 million dollars each year. And yet according to Miss Kittle, new elementary schoolteachers are being turned out completely unprepared to meet this new menace.

25 years ago, 1982

• The average price of regular gasoline in Maine was $1.296 a gallon in January, according to the AAA. That compares to $1.356 in March 1981.

• A Superior Court judge is being asked to kick snowmobiles out of Baxter State Park, in a court suit being filed by seven members of the Northwoods Alliance.

RANGELEY – Scores of spectators and competitors converged on the Rangeley lake ice at Lakeside Park recently for the first annual running of the Rangeley Lake 100 snowmobile races sponsored by the Sno-Drifters Snowmobile Club.