100 years ago, 1917
A narrow escape from being seriously injured, perhaps killed, was the good fortune of two women in Turner, Wednesday evening. After obtaining their team at the waiting room stable, they started for home and in the darkness, drove into the iron pipe fencing, just this side of the bridge. The horse, sleigh and two occupants all went over the wall which at that point was about six feet high. One of the women jumped while the other was tipped under the sleigh, but not seriously injured. Farnum, the waiting room proprietor, rendered what assistance he could in relieving the outfit from its precarious condition. The horse was found lying on its back with its feet up in the air and the sleigh was also upside down. The horse did not seem to be injured and very little damage was done to the sleigh.

50 years ago, 1967
Elmer W. Campbell, president of the Auburn Business Development Corporation, announced today that the ABDC has purchased 20 acres of land between the Rodman Road and Poliquin Avenue, Auburn, across, from the former Dane-T-Bits Building, in which General Electric will soon begin operations. The land has a frontage of 1170 feet on the Rodman Road. The land extends back to Poliquin Avenue, according to Campbell. The land was purchased from the C. Walter Guilmette Realty Development Corporation of Auburn for an undisclosed sum. The land will be made available to business concerns interested in establishing operations in the Shoe City. “We have no plans at this date for the land,” Campbell said however.

25 years ago, 1992
About 60 percent of Auburn’s ninth-graders are enrolled in Walton School’s unique new Career Aspirations Lab this year. Once the program is fully implemented in 1993-94, all Walton students will spend a semester in this lab. “Probably 75 or 80 percent of our kids are going to be in the workforce after high school . . . so it really behooves us to give them an idea of the jobs that are out there,” Principal Jim Miller said.

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