100 years ago, 1913
Alderman William E. Skelton cast a bombshell of facts and figures into the meeting of the Lewiston board of aldermen Tuesday evening, laying incompetence and graft at the doors of the Democratic heads of the departments, and at the same time answering the criticisms that lay the increase of the 2 mills tax rate to Republican extravagance, and in conclusion put the whole proposition squarely before the Democrats by the introduction of an order embodying the principles of the State law that forbade the purchase of goods from members of the city government but going further in referring to the heads of the departments. The great basis of the attack was the bill presented by John Leclair for painting on the city almshouse and approved by Cyrille Labranche, superintendent. Alderman Skelton, before he took up the conditions in the poor department, swept thru other departments, toughing hear and there to show the general wastefulness and improvidence of the Democratic heads of the departments.

50 years ago, 1963
Police officers sin Lewiston and Auburn had their problems today with cars, cars, and more cars full of teachers converging on, and traveling around, the Twin Cities to attend the many sessions taking place during the Maine Teachers Convention today and tomorrow. A steady stream of vehicles was encountered coming into both Lewiston and Auburn early this morning, but by 8:30 or so, the steady stream came to a halt as major arteries and many side streets became jammed with traffic, creating on the worst traffic bottlenecks the Twin Cities have ever experienced. Auburn police reported a double line of traffic barely moving up Main St. into Lewiston, with carts backed up as far as Spring St., Auburn, in front of the Auburn Fire Station. There was, too, a serious traffic stoppage quite a distance up Turner St.

25 years ago, 1988
“The History of Litchfield, Maine, and an Account of its Centennial Celebration in 1895” has been reprinted by Higginson Book Company of Salem, Mass. This book, originally published in 1895, had been out of print for many years. The reprint, which is 548 pages long, is a facsimile edition, hardbound in high quality buckram with the title stamped on the spine in gold.

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