Looking Back on May 24

100 years ago, 1918

The seven-cent fare asked by the Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville street railway is granted, what will become of the Rooke registers? If they were thought necessary when installed, are they not equally necessary now? These and similar questions have frequently been asked in the last few days. “I don’t know what we shall do,” said General Manager Sweeney when questioned by the Journal. “We have not yet considered the problem of how the additional two cents is to be collected.”

50 years ago, 1968

Workmen are installing a large concrete pipe which, when completed, will carry a small brook across the property near the Harvard Street side of the construction site for the Auburn Housing for the Elderly project on Lake Auburn Avenue. The sections are four feet in diameter and about eight feet long and will be tied in to a large stone culvert which allows the brook to pass under Harvard Street. The Auburn project will include some 100 units and is expected to be ready for occupancy in about 18 months.

25 years ago, 1993

Joseph Edmondson of Mechanic Falls has been selected to attend the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Vail, Colo. this summer. He is one of only 20 dancers from the country selected to attend the school.

The material in Looking Back is reproduced exactly as it originally appeared, although misspellings and errors made at that time may be corrected.