100 Years Ago: 1921

North Auburn Grange will hold a Hallowe’en party and costume dance at the grange hall Saturday evening, Oct, 29. Music will be furnished by Barretts Orchestra. The affair will be in charge of a special committee, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Sanborn, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stewart.

50 Years Ago: 1971

A Halloween party is being planned for patients of the Idle Wilde Rest Home at 218 Summer St., Auburn, on Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Colored slides taken in the Rangeley area will be shown by Mrs. Donald S. Robinson, a member  of the nursing staff and Mrs. Dorothy St, Germaine is supervising the party. Special refreshments, including cider, doughnuts. sandwiches, candies and a decorated Halloween cake will be served. The guests of the patients are invited to attend.

25 Years Ago: 1996

Members of the Maine Rural Letter Carriers Association will celebrate the centennial of Rural Free Delivery in Sebago Lakes, Maine on Saturday with a parade, museum display and specially designed commemorative stamps and cancellation at Centennial Station. When Rural Free Delivery started in Maine in 1896 postmen carried the mail by horse and buggy. The volume of mail and the method of delivery has changed enormously in the past 100 years and the celebration is intended to mark the advances and the milestones of the rural postal delivery service. The first rural free delivery routes in Maine were established in Naples, Gorham and Sebago Lake. Several years later a fourth route was added in Portland. The establishment of rural free delivery spawned an association of Maine rural letter carriers, a group which continues to take pride in the history and unique job descriptions of postal carriers.

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