100 years ago, 1914
A runaway team came flying up Main street, Auburn, and across Court Thursday morning. Milk bottles were being spattered over the paving. On North Main street the team neared the right curb and hit a street cleaner’s barrel on wheels. Next the horse became entangled in a team standing near and Earle Pratt had the horse by the head before it could go further. The belief is that some other team hit this one as it passed and thus frightened the horse. At any rate this horse, which had been hitched to a pole, stripped the bridle from its head and started up the street.

50 years ago, 1964
(EDITORIAL) The president of the strike-bound Oxford Paper Co. in Rumford, William H. Chisholm, has put a price tag on the continuing shutdown. It is over two million dollars! That is money wasted, down the drain. The benefits which would have accrued to Rumford, Oxford County and Maine from the production and distribution of this wealth have been lost for all time. Even if the unnecessary strike were called off this morning, the two million dollars never will he regained.

25 years ago, 1989
The Androscoggin Land Trust will hold its first public meeting to discuss possible acquisition of land along the Androscoggin River and neighboring farmland. The trust was incorporated this summer as a way to preserve significant local natural areas The group was originally formed as the Androscoggin Riverlands Committee when Diamond Occidental put up for sale 2,000 acres of river frontage on Gulf Island Pond in Turner and Leeds. The committee succeeded in getting that acreage on the state’s negotiations list for possible purchase with money from the Land for Maine’s Future Program. However, should the state negotiations fail with the current owner, the group wanted to have a follow-up plan to prevent losing the land to development.

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