100 years ago, 1916
The season of brush fires is here. Two took the attention of the Lewiston fire department, Thursday. In the afternoon a chief’s call was sounded to call men for a fire in the French cemetery in the Switzerland road where 150 cords of wood were destroyed. Another call was sounded in the evening for a brush fire in Grove street. Fire had caught in the vicinity of a portable mill.

50 years ago, 1966
Many of the nation’s hospitals are displaying pictures this week of Central Maine General Hospital’s groundbreaking ceremony, February 2, with Mrs. Henry M. Dingley, Jr., at the controls of a 22-ton power shovel. A picture similar to the one which appeared in the Lewiston Evening Journal of that date was reproduced by a service providing bulletin board materials to subscriber hospitals throughout the nation. It appears with the May posters as a “Picture of the Week” with a brief caption describing CMG’s building program.

25 years ago, 1991
Firefighters battled two Oxford County woods fires Monday, attempting to finally quell hot spots that reignited where several larger areas of fire had been brought under control a day earlier. Another small fire broke out at Denmark but was quickly contained. Also on Monday, South Paris and Oxford fire chiefs said woods fires in their towns Sunday went undetected for some time because the fire tower on Streaked Mountain was temporarily unmanned. They said that shows the risks the state faces in considering the closing of some fire towers as an economy measure.

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