• “Advertise the City of Lewiston” was the principal topic discussed at the monthly meeting of the Lewiston Board of Trade last evening. Different plans for advertising were considered and the matter was left in the hands of the public committee. Other matters taken up were the Fourth of July celebration and a new hotel.

• Several hundred boys gathered in the basement of the Great Department Store Saturday morning to get instructions on the contest for the Hot Tamale Coasters to be given away to the boys. They were all much interested in the plan.

50 years ago, 1957

An 18-year-old teenager was fined and sent to jail for 30 days after being found guilty on a morals count Monday morning in Lewiston Municipal Court.

The teenager, one of four persons brought into court on morals charges, pleaded not guilty to a fornication count. When adjudged to be guilty, the Court fined him $25 and costs and also handed out the jail sentence. He was booked by Patrolman George (Bucky) Bernier.

The same officer picked up a young woman, also 18, of 90 Pleasant St., Auburn, who entered a guilty plea to a fornication count and was released in $500 bail when the case was continued until Friday for sentencing.

25 years ago, 1982

Attorney General James Tierney said Wednesday he is disturbed that more than half the car repair shops surveyed in the Lewiston-Auburn and Rockland areas had not posted required signs outlining customer rights.

Under the law, garages are to post signs that inform customers, among other things:

• That a customer can set, in writing, a ceiling on the cost of repairs, which the garage cannot exceed without the customer’s prior approval.

• That a customer can keep all replaced parts, except those that must be returned to the manufacturer under warranty.

• That rebuilt parts cannot be used in repairs unless the customer gives prior approval.

• The hourly rates charged by the garage.