100 years ago, 1914
C. E. Dyer’s large livery and sale stable on Park street, Livermore Falls, was destroyed by fire Thursday night and a dwelling house adjoining owned by S. S. Locklin and occupied by Fred Blaisdell and family, was badly gutted. Mrs. Blaisdell escaped in her night clothes with her baby in her arms. There were six horses and a pung, two automobiles, one of which cost $5,000, burned in the big stable, besides a lot of hay, farming utensils, wagons. etc.

50 years ago, 1964
What would a fishing derby be without fish??? This was the question officials of the first annual Lewiston Summer Festival Committee were asking recently when they learned that the 150 trout that had previously been promised to the committee by a state hatchery would not be available. However, festival chairman Ray Geiger today said that through the efforts of two local businessmen, the fish will be supplied, free of charge, for the event scheduled to take place Wednesday afternoon, August 19. Help came from Dean Quinton of Quinco Fabrics of Auburn and Regis Lepage of Country Kitchen Bakery, Lewiston, Geiger stated “who combined with Maurice Parent of the Shy Beaver Trout Farm of West Buxton to furnish the fish.”

25 years ago, 1989
Support among striking New England Telephone Co. workers here was strong the second day of a work shutdown, a local union official said, although only four workers walked a picket line outside the company’s Ash Street office. “We’re 100 percent membership here,” said Susan Goddard, chief steward of the 102 Lewiston members of Local 2327 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Striking union members have been scheduled to walk a picket line outside NET’s offices at 66 Ash St. through the week, Goddard said.

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