From the pages of the Livermore Falls Advertiser 

75 years ago:  

A business transfer of considerable interest took place recently when Paul J. Nadeau purchased the grocery business, conducted under the name of The Corner Store, from his employer Peter Cloutier. The transfer includes the store itself and all the adjoining buildings. Mr. Nadeau will take possession Monday, July 1st.

This store is one of the largest grocery businesses in the community and was established by Peter C. Cloutier in August 1930. Mr. Cloutier has been in the grocery business for twenty-two years and before establishing his present store was connected with his brother in a grocery store formerly located in the building now occupied by J.E. Dumais.

Lillian Washburn is making arrangements for the repair of the church at the Norlands to put it in shape for the annual services in August.

The annual field day of East Livermore Campmeeting Association will be held at the Campground on Monday, July 1. It is hoped that all interested will attend.

The local selectmen have announced that the tax rate for the town of Jay has been released. The tax rate is fifty mills as compared to fifty-two mills last year.

George Walsh of Jay will go to Orono Wednesday as a delegate from the Franklin County 4-H clubs. George has qualified as a delegate on account of his high rating in his club work. He has raised chickens and beans successfully.

Mr. and Mrs. George May held an open house Friday afternoon at their Haines Corner home in honor of Henry Dana Dyke, better known as Uncle Dana, as he was celebrating his 99th birthday. He invited everyone present to attend his 100th birthday next year.

Mr. Dyke was involved in the lumbering business in Canada where he and his wife had two children. When his health failed after his wife’s passing, he returned to East Livermore and resided with his niece, Mrs. Lillian Dyke Cummings, until she passed. The Mays have since cared for him. Mr. Dyke attributes his long life to the total abstinence of liquor in his life.

Fifty years ago:  

A meeting of the General Chairman and chairmen of the Sub-Committees of the Tri-Town Area Committee on Medical Needs was held recently at the Treat Memorial Library Auditorium. Drawings of floor and building plans were on display  and were discussed. It was decided to take these plans or sketches to an architect for more compete plans in order to get contractor estimates on the cost of this building.

It was disclosed that an option has been taken on the Lauriston Bryant property at 87 Church Street just over the town line in Jay.

The tentative plans call for consultation rooms for three doctors. Each doctor will have two examining rooms, one on each side of the consultation rooms. There will also be an X-ray room; a nurses room; rooms for receptionist, business office, electro cardiogram; a common laboratory; physical therapy room; emergency department; recovery room; waiting room, etc.

The approximate size of the building will be 34 feet by 78 feet and will have a basement with windows in the front and a ground level floor. There is room for a large parking area and future expansion.

The city of Fayette voted to join School Administrative District No. 36 at a special Town Meeting June 23. The voters of the school district must vote within forty-five days from that date to decide whether the Fayette schools will be administered as a part of their school administrative district.

Currently eighty percent of secondary students from Fayette are attending the District High School. This percentage has changed very little over the past thirteen years.

LaVerdiere’s in the Tri-Town Plaza was advertising 100 count Bayer aspirin for $0.66; American made water skiis, $9.99 a pair; assorted plastic tableware, 24 pieces for $0.16; Eveready D batteries, $0.13 a package; and Snelled fishing hooks, 6 for $0.09.

25 years ago: 

The Galen Cole Family Land Museum, Perry Road, Bangor, had a special meaning to approximately two hundred Maine Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) veterans this month.

In addition to being the site of the CCC’s second reunion the museum founder, Galen Cole, proclaimed the day  “CCC Day.”

Reney Therrien of Jay served as Master of Ceremonies for the ceremonies. Eleven of the twenty-five original camps were represented at the reunion and many of the men shared their experiences. The Therrien brothers and Raoul Roy of Jay, and Laurent Brochu of Livermore Falls were given special thanks for assisting in planning the reunion.

Sound Off is coming to the Livermore Falls Advertiser.

What is Sound Off? It is an opportunity for you – our reader and a member of the community – to have your views heard on vital issues of our day.

The new Livermore Falls Gazebo will be dedicated July 3 at 8 p.m. The Community Band will play a selection of tunes, capped off by a thirty to forty-five minute display of Fireworks, set off from Spruce Mountain Ski Slope. A square dance will be held from 6-8 p.m. Bring you lawn chairs and help celebrate the first outdoor concert since 1974.

All schools in Jay have been recognized for outstanding nutrition in school meals by the Division of School Nutrition Programs and the Maine Department of Education.

Recognized schools are required to modify school meals by reducing fat, sugar and salt and to educate students and parents regarding the importance of good nutrition.

The Jay Elementary School has the unique honor of being one of the two schools in the state to receive this recognition three years in a row.

Compiled by Pam Harnden.