100 Years Ago: 1924
“Rosco Orcutt of Somerville traded his hens with Charles Crummett for a sleigh,” and the very next Saturday the price of eggs went to $1 and it rained, spoiling his sleighing. Rosco thinks now of swapping his sleigh for an auto.
50 Years Ago: 1974
The Pine Tree Warriors are sponsoring a Cakewalk at their hall, 143 Lincoln St,, Lewiston at 7 o’clock Sunday evening, Jan 27.
Proceeds of this event will be presented to Bertrand Levesque, Jr. to go towards decorations for the Warriors 15th anniversary Banquet Ball to be held at the Lewiston Memorial Armory on March 23.
Assisting at the Cakewalk will be Mrs. Adrienne Lesvesque, ticket; Mrs. Rita Roy, food; Bertrand Dutil as caller; and Diane Pomerleau and Mona Bussiere, collector of tickets.
25 Years Ago: 1999
In the words of Richard Aspinall, in this day and age it seems uncommon to find citizens with true and honest values.
Aspinall says he has found such a person in a Durham Elementary student, Evan Franklin, son of Wayne and Linda Franklin. Evan was recognized for his honesty in returning the $160 he found.
In a letter to Principal Clement Wilson Aspinall told of a situation that he and his wife had experienced in which they were truly taken aback with a certain student’s actions and we thought it appropriate that the school and Franklin’s peers knew about it.
Aspinall and his wife were getting ready to go to work one morning and while putting her children in their car seats, she put her coat on the back of the car along with the $160 cash attached to a deposit slip. Being in a rush she drove off and didn’t realize that she had lost the money until she arrived at the daycare on the opposite side of town.
When she surmised what she had done she hurried back to their home only to find that the money had not fallen in her driveway, but apparently had blown off her car. She searched up and down the road where the couple live, to no avail, but did see Evan Franklin who was riding his bicycle to school. When asked if he had seen the money he told her that he had found it, realized it belonged to the Aspinalls and placed it in the doorway of their home.
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