100 years ago, 1918
An order for doughnuts from Katanzas, Cuba! That’s what was received in Olfene’s Market, Auburn, this week. Here is the letter: Feb. 1, 1918. Olfene’s Public Market: Dear Sirs: As since I was a student in the old “Lewiston Falls Academy” I have not tasted a single doughnut made in that, to me, dear city, where I still have a dear friend and schoolmate, the Hon. Frank L. Dingley, and as I have read in the Lewiston Saturday Journal the advertisement that in your modern sanitary bakery you make large home-made doughnuts, and I at my octogenarian age should like to taste once more those nice doughnuts, I would be very thankfully to you if you would take the trouble to send me by parcel post to the address below, two dozens of said doughnuts in a paste board box. Please find enclosed a money order for sixty cents to pay for the merchandise and postage.
50 years ago, 1968
A large, new boiler will be installed at the Bates Division of the Bates Manufacturing Company and a new modern high-speed elevator will be erected at the Company’s Hill Division. The cost will be approximately $160,000. Arrangements for these installations had been made with Lewiston Community Enterprises Inc. which purchased the Bates buildings a few years ago and leased them back to the company.
25 years ago, 1993
When the sprinkler system alarm went off at Morin the Painter’s Turner Street business last month, the owner was alerted at home by members of a citizen’s patrol. Those same people noticed an unlocked door at Classic Auto Body a couple weeks ago and called the owner. The CARE Crime Watch of Auburn has extended its scope well beyond the Family Development on Valerie Circle and the residences around it since it started last April. The organization is now patrolling 25 businesses every night, as well as all Auburn Housing Authority projects and residences on Lake Auburn Avenue, and Whitney, Broadview, Turner, and Vernon streets.
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