100 years ago, 1914
Francis Ouimet of Boston, who is today the biggest figure in American golf, will be at Poland Spring for an all day exhibition an Tuesday. It has been arranged that Ouimet and Paul McNamara shall play an exhibition 36 hole best ball match, against W. H. Follette and A. H. Fenn. Ouimet is the American open golf champion, the French amateur champion and the Massachusetts State champion. His partner in these games is from New York. Mr. Follett learned his game in England. He was the runner up to Harry Vardon at the Atlantic City tournament. Mr. Fenn is a noted golf course architect.
50 years ago, 1964
The chairman of the Lewiston Summer Festival, Ray Geiger, will be heard on the Don McNeill Breakfast Club Show tomorrow morning, at 9 o’clock, and several plugs concerning the Summer Festival will be aired on the coast-to-coast broadcast. Geiger is currently in Chicago to map out the final plans for the radio show which will be broadcast from Lewiston on two days during the festival, slated for the week of Aug. 17-22. Geiger is to present to Don McNeill and other stars of the show free Maine fishing licenses, courtesy of Gov. John H. Reed, plus a variety of Maine food items.
25 years ago, 1989
They don’t have to deal with snow, rain nor gloom of night, but this week postal carriers in Lewiston like Jean LeBrun are living up to the fourth element of their unofficial creed: heat. Five years as a postal carrier isn’t the only thing that has toughened LeBrun. “A tour of Vietnam helped, too. Fourteen months in the jungle — this is easy,” he said. LeBrun took the heat in stride as he delivered mail to Webster Street homes and other addresses on his seven-mile walk. LeBrun said Gatorade is the best thirst quencher. He brings a bottle of it with him on his route, which he starts at about 9:30 a.m. He said heat isn’t a postal carrier’s biggest menace. instead, it’s the combination of wind and rain that bothers him. “When the ink starts to run on the envelope, then you’re in trouble,” he said.
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