100 years ago, 1916
The Loyal Temperance Legion of Auburn met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. Florence Starbird, corner Union and Court streets. Fourteen were present. After the regular opening exercises it was voted to accept invitation to sing at the Auburn Temperance Reform club meeting next Sunday. Three new members were enrolled at yesterday’s meeting.

50 years ago, 1966
(Photo Caption) This is one of the entrants in the Halloween window painting contest held Saturday in Auburn. This entrant, titled “The Ol’ Graveyard,” is on the window of a Court Street store, and is emblematic of the fearsomeness of Halloween Night, when goblin, witches, et al, go racketing around the neighborhood in the form of Trick or Treaters.

25 years ago, 1991
Officials and residents marveled Wednesday night that the ten telephone poles knocked down by high winds at about 3 p.m. came down across normally busy Route 26 in Gray without injuring a single person. Had it occurred an hour earlier, the bizarre accident could have caught school buses heading down the road from SAD 15 high school and middle school. An hour later, and it might have caught the beginning of the influx of Portland-to-home traffic. A chain reaction started when a telephone pole near the turnpike overpass on the Shaker Road snapped and fell in the gusty winds, and the heavy telephone and power cables strung from pole to pole pulled down each of several poles in turn. Within moments, ten telephone poles lay across the main thoroughfare like the rungs of a ladder.

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