100 years ago: 1919

There will be a meeting at the Wallace White Club Tuesday night at the Republican headquarters. The meeting adjourned last week after paying tribute to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.

50 years ago: 1969

Mrs. Howard Cody will present a review of the best-selling book, “Our Crowd,” at a meeting of the Lewiston-Auburn Chapter of Hadassah to be held at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon at the Jewish Community Center.

25 years ago: 1994

Chris Stearns, a 14-year-old Auburn Boy Scout recently received the second-highest Boy Scouts award. An ordinary ice-fishing exhibition at the Boy Scouts outdoor camp on Panther Pond in Raymond last year became life-threatening when one of the scouts fell through. Stearns, an Eagle Scout in Auburn’s Troop 137 rescued Jeff Verrill and later received the second-highest award for his efforts. The scouts were in small groups fishing on about 40 feet of water. Suddenly Jeff fell through. Stearns said, “My first reaction is I have to do something. Cautiously I inched my way up to where he was to check the ice and I began to fall in, so I jumped back on solid ice. I grabbed his hand and pulled him so he could crawl out himself.” “A lot of boys and adults wouldn’t have done what he did,” Assistant Scoutmaster Frank Keough said. “He’s an excellent scout and very motivated,” said Mark Warner, who was Scoutmaster at the time. After the incident, he was recommended for recognition. The National Boy Scout council awarded Stearns the “Life-saving” award for unusual heroism.

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