100 years ago, 1917
Captain Smith, with a carnival company now in Auburn, gave an exhibition of plain and fancy shooting on the carnival grounds Friday afternoon, for the benefit of the Auburn police and the public in general, The police were much interested and tried out some of his shots in their own range after the exhibition.

50 years ago, 1967
A large army of cutworms invaded an area of Lewiston Sunday afternoon, and residents of the area were busy battling the little yellow gluttons well into the night. The worms, of a type known to be making large appearances in central Maine this year, were first sighted making scouting forays into the backyards of four homes along Tucker Street shortly after 6 p.m. At that time, one of the residents reported he was walking along when he saw a branch fall from a bush. Upon investigating further, he found that the branch was covered with yellow worms ranging up to two inches in length. His neighbors began sighting the armyworms in their own backyards, and the initial skirmishing soon gave way to all-out battle. At the outset of the struggle, the worms had made their way right up to the back porches of the houses,

25 years ago, 1992
Information about the restoration of the Civil War Memorial in Mechanic Falls is being assembled as contents of a time capsule to be placed inside the monument. No date has yet been set for the reopening of the memorabilia case, but it is assumed it will be sometime in the 21st century. Edmund A. MacDonald, chairman of the Civil War Monument Committee and past commander of American Legion Post 150, is collating the material to be filed away for posterity. The activity was occasioned by the recent restoration to standing position of a backward-leaning statue of a Union soldier atop the memorial shaft.

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