100 Years Ago: 1921

The arrival of a good sized lion In Auburn Wednesday afternoon drew a big crowd around the addition to the county building where the workmen were busily engaged in placing him in position. He is a granite lion and there will be two to guard the entrance.

50 Years Ago: 1971

Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who is winding up for an all-out drive for his party’s presidential nomination, will huddle with Maine Democrats this Saturday at Thomas Point Beach in Brunswick. He will join other party leaders at the 500 Club’s annual clambake, it was announced by State Chairman Severin M. Beliveau of Rumford. Other office holders will include Gov. Kenneth M. Curtis, Congressmen William  D. Hathaway and Peter N. Kyros. A number of Lewiston-Auburn area Democrats plan to take part in the colorful clambake. It is an annual affair for 500 Club members and their guests. The club was established nine years ago as a means of providing financial support for the operation of Democratic State headquarters.

25 Years Ago: 19

Old-time music, played sweetly on an antique reed organ needed only voices to transport listeners back in time to an early worship service. However, this organ was not located in a church, but in the Holmes-Crafts Homestead on Jay Hill where it was the centerpiece of the annual open house sponsored by the Jay Historical Society. Marjorie Donald of North Jay, an accomplished musician who plays a similar organ each Sunday, presented the concert to a room full of guests. Displayed on a table in front of the organ cabinet were several items connected with the instrument, including a photo of the man who gave it to the Bartlett Memorial Methodist Church. John R. Rowe, a quarry worker at North Jay, made the gift in 1897, the year the church was built. He is shown in his British Army uniform as he originally was from England.

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