100 years ago, 1912
Still another local concern has secured a contract in connection with the erection of the weave shed for the Bates Mill in Lewiston. The last to be awarded is that for lumber and this will be furnished entirely by the Adams-Chalmers Co., Turner Street, Auburn, a concern that deals largely in lumber and is well-known. Already much of the excavation has been done. The first shipment of lumber will be made soon. It will be 200,000 feet of lumber. The contract is large and is said to have been awarded to the Auburn firm because of its ability to make shipments at once.
50 years ago, 1962
Obituary — William (Bing) Conley, 61, who was a one-time New England middleweight boxing champion, fighting out of Lewiston, died at Hollywood, Calif., Tuesday, July 24, following an apparent heart attack. He collapsed at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital shortly after he entered the institution and told attendants that he had been refused treatment at another hospital. Conley boxed out of Lewiston in the 1920s and once fought Tiger Flowers and Jack Delaney. After going to Hollywood, he became an actor and was also a stand-in for Pat O’Brien and Horace McMahon. At one time he was employed as a bodyguard for columnist Jimmie Fidler and actress Mae West.
25 years ago, 1987
Were it not for the combined efforts of 18 fire departments and 46 pieces of equipment, along with dedicated firemen, the downtown business section of Lisbon Falls might well have been destroyed during Thursday’s Worumbo Mill fire, said Lisbon Selectman William “Bob” Donovan. It was the largest mutual aid effort ever in the town of Lisbon by area firefighters which successfully saved the “big white mill” near Route 196, Donovan pointed out. If the fire had reached the building where volatile materials were stored, Donovan said he was sure downtown Lisbon Falls would have gone up in flames. In one example of the heat of the inferno, a 1982 Ford reportedly driven by a Lewiston woman was heavily damaged when she tried to drive through Canal Street during the height of the fire.
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