100 years ago, 1918

The Dingley Training school, Lewiston, contributed ten dollars in the recent Red Cross drive instead of one dollar as listed in the report printed Tuesday. Moreover, the Dingley school is well along in its Junior Red Cross membership and hopes soon to be a 100 per cent school in this registration. The boys and girls in grades four and five have become quite proficient knitters and have nearly completed a soldier’s ambulance afghan, made of one hundred six-inch wool squares of various colored worsteds. Miss Yetten, the sewing teacher, considers that the pupils of these rooms will soon be capable of knitting stockings for the soldier boys, In fact, today, the former sewing periods are now entirely devoted to Red Cross work.

50 years ago, 1968

The Lewiston Public Library is encouraging increased reading for its young clients with a Reading Club which will get underway the week that school closes. Membership in the Lewiston Libray’s Reading Club will be open to children ages eight to 12, between grades three to seven. Boys and girls may register at the Children’s Room of the library at any time until June 13, opening day of the program, which will continue through August 31. Each child will have a membership card and a reading record will be kept. 

25 years ago, 1993

It’s a classic case of aesthetics versus practicality as towns throughout the state debate whether or not to keep their old streetlights or convert to a newer, less expensive, but less attractive streetlight. Lewiston was one city which recently faced such a dilemma, and decided to convert to the newer streetlights with a high pressure sodium bulb and a cover, referred to as a globe, which protects the bulb and diffuses the light uniformly. These newer lights replaced older, radial wave models with crescent shade lamps that used inefficient, incandescent bulbs.

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