100 years ago, 1912
How came the cartridge in Deputy Sheriff George H. McIntosh’s cook stove? Saturday morning Mrs. McIntosh heard an explosion and hastened into her kitchen to find the room full of ashes and smoke. Sifting the ashes later, Mr. McIntosh found the shell. It was about 2 and ¾ inches in length. He is inclined to believe that someone had inserted the cartridge in a hole bored into the stick of wood. He has another stick which looks as tho it might have been “doctored.”

50 years ago, 1962
Bishop James K. Mathews of the Boston area of the Methodist Church visited the Park Ave., Auburn site of the new Methodist church Sunday and found the construction work well along. The Herbert E. Callahan Construction Co. crews currently are installing huge pre-stressed laminated wood trusses which were fabricated in the State of Washington especially for the Auburn church and shipped here. The attractive new church is expected to be completed later this year.

25 years ago, 1987
The first of some 260 scheduled to visit the Shriners’ annual two-day Lewiston clinic began filling up the Central Maine Medical Center Family Practice Center Friday afternoon. A complement of clowns and merry-makers and a 10-person medical team from the Springfield, Mass., unit of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children were on hand to greet the youngsters.