100 years ago, 1918
The annual ball of the Lunn & Sweet people will be held in Lewiston City Hall, Wednesday, but this year the treasury of the War Service club, to be used in making up the monthly boxes that are sent to every man who gone into the service from this factory. Every month each man receives from the club a box containing little articles that go to make the life of the soldier more comfortable, and above all to remind him that his former comrades haven’t forgotten him. There are about 40 from the factory in the service. Lunn & Sweet salesmen from every State in proceeds of the affair will go into the the Union are in Auburn, and will be here next week when the dance will be held.
50 years ago, 1968
A recent complaint by a South China resident that the plowing of the Old Greene road, Lewiston, ended abruptly, without warning, near the Greene line, and that she plowed into an unexpected snowbank in the center of the road, damaging vehicle, has resulted in erection of warnings by the Lewiston Public Works Department. A warning sign and barricade were set in place Wednesday by the highway department. PWD Director William Adams said today that a more permanent type of barricade would be installed later this afternoon, and that a sign stating “Dead End” would also be erected.
25 years ago, 1993
Auburn Water District trustees on Wednesday will consider a request by a local school group to post a portion of district land off limits to hunting. The group, the C.P. Wight Land Lab Advisory Committee, would like to use the district’s property, located around the Lake Auburn basin, as a land lab, or site for natural history education for Auburn schoolchildren in grades kindergarten through six. Hunting is currently not prohibited on district land. Susan Hayward, a naturalist who works part time for the Auburn School Department, said the area, approximately 40 acres north of C.P. Wight School, offers a wide variety of habitats.
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