If you have friends visiting you and wish to give them a delightful outing for the day at a slight expense, where can you find a more restful trip than to leave on the 7:06 a.m. train from the Main Street station any Tuesday, Friday or Sunday for Bath, with short walk to Eastern Steamship Co.’s wharf, taking steamers for a sail down picturesque Black River to one of the many Islands in Boothbay Harbor and returning the same way; fare only $1 for adult and $.55 for children?

50 years ago, 1958

• Meeting yesterday afternoon, Lewiston’s Board of Education hired one teacher and granted a leave of absence to another. Acting on the recommendation of School Supt. J. Weldon Russell, the board appointed Mrs. Charlotte Corriveau of 60 Lowell St. as a new sixth-grade instructor at Wallace School. Russell said she has previous teaching experience at Hudson and Houlton in Maine.

Miss Andrea Coumont was granted, at her request, a year’s leave of absence from her fifth-grade post at Farwell School “for further professional study.” She has been with the Lewiston Education Department for many years.

• A record dance will be held from 8 to 11:30 tonight at Hasty Memorial Armory at Pettingill Park under the sponsorship of the Auburn Teen Council.

25 years ago, 1983

Maine U.S. Reps. Olympia Snowe and John R. McKernan Jr. have announced the appointment of a Citizens’ Educational Advisory Committee to advise them on ways the federal government can help upgrade Maine’s public school system. The committee, including several from the Lewiston-Auburn area, is composed of individuals who are involved in Maine’s educational system and others interested in the welfare of the school system from pre-school through higher education.

The following people are among those who will serve on the committee: Thomas Harvey of Auburn, president of the Maine Teachers’ Association; Lucille Johnson of Winthrop, who is with the Maine Department of Education; Geneva Kirk of Lewiston, a retired high school teacher; Neil Tame of South Paris, chairman of the mathematics department at Oxford Hills High School; and Mrs Myrtle Willey of Farmingdale, president of T.W. Dick Co.