100 years ago, 1913
The project of a more sufficient lighting system for the streets of Auburn is being agitated by the Auburn board of trade. It has been planned to install cluster lights at fixed intervals from the Auburn line of the north bridge up Court Street to the Maine Central R. R. Station, also on Main and Turner streets. The merchants have taken a great interest and if the plan goes thru it will add much to the beautifying of the city as well as being of great benefit to the merchants.

50 years ago, 1963
(Once Over Brightly column by Ed Kisonak) Everyone, but everyone, with a car, must drive out to Washington St., Auburn, to get a look at the new “Welcome To Auburn” sign which has been erected in an effort to interest out-of-towners and out-of-staters in the Shoe City. If you don’t have a car, hire a horse … even though you’ve already seen a photo of the sign on the front page of the Journal. Uncle Itchy says it (the sign) is even more striking than the results which would have been achieved had the cities gone along with the suggestion of one citizen that the rocks below the falls between the two communities be pained red, white and blue, and the waterway trained to sing the Star Spangled Banner.

25 years ago, 1988
The King’s things are coming to the Auburn Mall. Elvis Presley fans who haven’t made the trip to the late singer’s Memphis, Tenn., mansion will have the chance to view some of the things he left behind when a traveling museum exhibit makes a local stop next week. Elvis’s gun collection, 1966 Rolls Royce and his wedding ring are among items to be displayed. There will be 16 display cases lined with his jumpsuit, lion claw necklace and other clothing and jewelry. Articles come from the Graceland Mansion in Memphis and several other homes of the singer, who died in 1977.