100 years ago: 1925

“The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, in two bills in equity filed at the Clerk of Courts office, Auburn, yesterday against John Yencho and John Hlister, both of Lisbon Falls, asks that these defendants be enjoined from opening any grave or burying any body in the Roman Catholic graveyard at Lisbon Falls, known as Mt. Calvary cemetery, the property of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland.

“The bills allege that Mr. Yencho was the father of Ethel Yencho, a minor, whose dead body now reposes in the town tomb at Lisbon Falls, awaiting burial, and that John Hlister was the father of Andrew Hlister, whose body reposes in the same place awaiting burial.

“It is further alleged the defendants contemplate burying their dead in the aforementioned cemetery, despite the refusal of permission by Rev. John J. Sullivan, pastor of the Roman Catholic church at Lisbon Falls and superintendent of the graveyard. Burial in this cemetery, it is averred, cannot take place without the full consent of the priest.

“A temporary restraining order has been issued by the court, prohibiting the defendants from carrying out their alleged contemplations. This order stands until the special hearing on the bills next Wednesday.”

50 years ago: 1975

“Some of the signs point to a return of the Maine Nordiques to Lewiston for another season of North American League hockey. Directors meet this week and may make some kind of preliminary decision, it is assured, though there will not necessarily be immediate announcement.

“The Lewiston-based pro club is going through a strenuous spell battling for conditional season-ticket sales for continued local promotion and is within reasonable range of the 1,200 goal.

“The figure given out at Tuesday’s meeting of the Nordiques Boosters Club membership at the Youth Center was short of 850 but there is confidence a Blitz-Week businessmen’s committee drive will swell the total appreciably before the crucial date of May 9, when the Nordiques must declare one way or the other in league circles.”

25 years ago: 2000

“RUMFORD — Deborah Grant decided to organize a gun protest rally here on Mother’s Day partly because the BB that stuck in her son’s eyelid could have blinded him.

“She’d taught him never to point a gun at a person or any living thing, but he was shot by a friend while they were playing.

“There’s got to be a way to keep guns out of the hands of kids,” she said. “If you’re going to give a kid a gun of any kind, they should have to take a gun safety course.”

“She comes from a family of hunters and has guns in her house, but like others in Maine, Grant has been inspired by the Million Mom March planned as a demonstration for stricter gun laws.”

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