100 years ago, 1910

LISBON FALLS — Sturgis deputies Howard of Auburn and Hayward of Lewiston called at a club on Goddard Street late Saturday night and made a seizure of beer. They found four 16-gallon barrels of beer and three barrels part full. Men were drinking and customers were being served. The case will be heard in the Lewiston Municipal Court and Frank Gross was summoned to be there as he seemed to be the one in charge of the club. The deputies took the stuff back with them.

50 years ago, 1960

Miss Madeline L. Morneau, who has charge of the French program for the elementary grades in the Lewiston school system, addressed the Farwell School Parent-Teacher Association at the first fall meeting Tuesday night at the school. Miss Morneau described the methods she uses in teaching French to pupils in the lower grades, injecting much humor into her talk.

25 years ago, 1985

Plans for the installation of a new modern state-of-the-art digital switching system which will serve Litchfield customers is scheduled for cutover on Dec. 3, Normand J. Savard, general manager of Community Service Telephone Company, recently announced.

The new system will process calls faster and increase the number of long-distance circuits serving the 268 exchange, he said.

In addition, the new system will make available to customers services such as call waiting, call forwarding, three-way calling and speed calling.