100 years ago, 1918
Late Saturday afternoon the Lewiston Journal received a telegram from Mayor Burnham of Auburn, who is now in Boston, stating that he has been positively assured that 1,500 tons of hard coal are on their way to Portland and that half of this amount is for Lewiston and Auburn. Mr. Burnham laid the needs of this community before members of the fuel administration, which made every effort to grant his requests. An exchange of telegrams with Washington also showed that the authorities at the Capitol were alert to our community needs.
50 years ago, 1968
Several hundred workers at the old Continental Mills building near the South Bridge, Lewiston, left work early today as problems developed in the boiler room, during the coldest cold wave in many years in the Twin Cities. About 100 employees of the Arno Moccasin Co. had to leave their jobs because the heating system in the building developed difficulties. It appeared that all firms housed in the old mill were affected, or at least, most. A passerby said the parking lot was pretty well cleaned out by 2 o’clock this afternoon.
25 years ago, 1993
When Gov. John R. McKernan plucked Paul A. Cote Jr. from his post as a workers compensation commissioner and appointed him a District Court judge last month, a rare event in Maine Judicial history occurred. The 40-year-old lawyer and Lewiston native, who practiced a mix of criminal and civil law at his father’s Pine Street firm for seven years before joining the governor’s commission in 1988, became the third member of the Cote lineage to serve on the bench. With only a sixth-grade education but a dogged determination to be a lawyer, Cote’s late grandfather, Adrian, a former sheriff’s deputy, was tapped to be a Lewiston Municipal Court Judge in 1944. Cote’s father, Paul Cote Sr., at age 30 became the second-youngest judge in his time when Gov. John Reed in 1962 dispatched him to uphold law and order in the waning years of the Municipal Court in Lewiston’s city hall.
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