100 Years Ago: 1922

Babe Ruth and Wally Schang, the last Yankee players to be lined up for the coming baseball season today left Springs, Ark, for New Orleans, to join Manager Huggins and the remainder of his spring training squad.

50 Years Ago: 1972

Miss Patti Jean Cousens, Gardiner, a senior student at the University of Maine at Farmington, was crowned Winter Carnival Queen, Saturday night, at the annual winter carnival ball held at the Central Dining Facility on campus at UMF. Miss Cousens’ escort was John Neal, student at the University of Maine, at Orono. Runner up in the contest was Miss Diane Haggerty of Dover, Mass., a freshman at UMF. The talent contest, part of the winter carnival, was won by Robin Lisherness of Strong, who gave a reading. Second place went to a dance group comprising of Nancy Normand, Lewiston, Joseph B. and Edward Kelley of Bangor and Roberta Boghosian, of Augusta was third place winner.

25 Years Ago: 1997

Excelsior Grange will observe the 123rd anniversary of its founding in 1874 at a meeting open to the public at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15, in the Grange Hall on Harris Hill Road. Service certificates will be presented to three local women who have been Excelsior members for more than 50 years: Ara Goss, Lydia Ferland and Annie Gary. Guest speaker will be David Tedford, president of the Poland Historical Society, who will exhibit old photographs of the Grange and the town of Poland and will discuss historical accounts in old books.

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