• An auto containing two persons and running at high speed at a point nearly opposite Pierce’s cottage on the road between East and North Auburn, caused the horse of Charles S. Taber to become unmanageable and run away. Mr. and Mrs. Taber and their seven-year-old son Edward were thrown from the carriage receiving bruises and other injuries. The auto had no lights and did not stop to ascertain the extent of damage done.

• There has been much comment lately about the large number of grasshoppers seen about the streets. One man said yesterday that never have so many of the insects been seen so far in the city.

50 years ago, 1957

WASHINGTON – The Daughters of the American Revolution reported today they are getting along fine on a project to make scholars of us all. Their hope: to get everyone interested in that controversial old document, the U.S. Constitution. Constitution Week begins Sept. 17, a reminder that this is when it was signed, with George Washington in the leadoff spot, 170 years ago.

• A new 65,000-pound hydraulic press capable of compressing an automobile body into a small package is being installed at the new Washington Street scrap yard of the Isaac Miller Co. Inc. This new press was brought over the road from Lynn, Mass., under State police escort, and yesterday was set on a concrete foundation at the Washington Street yard.

25 years ago, 1982

The Community Little Theater’s drive to raise sufficient funds for the establishment of a Performing Arts Center represents a worthwhile effort. A big first step already has been taken at Auburn’s Central School, where theater seats have been reupholstered and the auditorium is being converted into an appropriate theater that features a larger state. The $100,000 campaign will be aimed at creating a facility that will lend itself to a broad variety of the performing arts.