• A number of former members and pastors of the East Auburn Baptist Church were present Thursday afternoon when the 100th anniversary was celebrated with appropriate exercises.

• The heavy frost which visited Maine Wednesday night undoubtedly did thousands of dollars of damage to crops. In some places, practically all of the unharvested crop, excepting the fruit, was destroyed. The corn crop in all parts of the state was greatly damaged, and everything in the line of garden truck was laid flat. Turner farmers were heavy losers as the corn crop is said to have been only about half in.

50 years ago, 1957

• Approximately 225 voters may decide Monday whether a town of West Paris shall be created. Eligible to vote are about 700 persons in the northerly and westerly sections of the town of Paris. An act passed by the 98th Legislature states a majority of 65 percent of the electorate within the confines of the proposed governmental division must vote in favor of it to take effect.

WASHINGTON – A great, patriotic literary battle that has raged from Massachusetts to Virginia has been settled – temporarily at least – in the trenches of the Library of Congress.

The library has come up with a winner for this question: Who wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag?

Its conclusion: Francis Bellamy, thereby casting gloom, though not necessarily despair, on the never-give-up bakers of James B. Upham.

25 years ago, 1982

• Auburn police are being watched by Big Brother. Devices installed in Auburn’s police cars in 1978 record the cars’ speed and amount of gas being used; the length of time the motors are on, off or idling; when the emergency lights are on; and the number of miles traveled during the shift. The patrolmen refer to them as “mechanical sergeants,” “I-spy” units, and “baby sitters.”

• Farmington Fair had one of the biggest opening days in years, according to John Stansfield, treasurer of the Franklin Agricultural Society, who estimated approximately 15,000 persons poured through the gates during the day Sunday.