Compiled from the pages of the Livermore Falls Advertiser  

75 years ago:  

Plans are underway for the 93rd annual session of East Livermore Campmeeting and Institute which will be held at the East Livermore Campgrounds from August 16 – August 25. Reverend Louis Staples of Gardiner has been secured as leader and Dr. Wesley G. Huber has again been secured as evangelist.

Henry Crosson, well known garage proprietor, has purchased and remodeled a building on the West Side and is now open for business. The new establishment which is located on the North Livermore road, about a half mile from the bridge, will be known as Crosson’s Garage and will feature Cities Service gasolines and motor oils.

The local fire department responded to a silent alarm Friday for a fire which destroyed the barn of the Donald Barclay farm on the North Livermore road. The blaze of undetermined origin burned the barn flat and with it two tons of hay, a truck, two cows, a pig, and twenty-five hens.

Water was pumped from a nearby brook. The house was saved although scorched on one side.

The DuMore 4-H Club will hold a lawn party at the home of their leader, Mrs. Emily Pike on Wednesday, July 24.

Lieut. Col. Frank J. Burbank returned to Livermore Falls Monday from Fort McKinley. He was on duty there with the 303 Maine Infantry for two weeks.

50 years ago:  

The Livermore Falls Fire Department answered a call at approximately 6:30 Friday evening for a fire at the house of Mr. & Mrs. Rene Beaudette in Chisholm. When the fire truck arrived, smoke was pouring from the nearly new one-story house located north of the Jay Jr. High School on Route 4.

It was believed the fire started in the floor timber in the basement. The blaze was confined to the basement but smoke damage was done throughout the house. The cause was unknown.

It was reported that more than two thousand persons attended the 19th Annual Jay-Wilton Field Day, Friday and Saturday, last week. Among those in the parade was Janyce Churchill “Miss Livermore Falls of 1965”.

The fortieth annual meeting of the Maine Three-Quarter Century Club will be held at the Augusta Armory Thursday, August 26, it was announced here today.

Over one thousand of Maine’s elder citizens will be on hand for the event, started in 1925 by former Governor R. Owen Brewster. Transportation will be furnished for those needing it.

Membership in the club is free to all Maine residents who have attained the three-quarter century mark. It is the only statewide organization of its kind in the nation.

25 years ago:  

Mike Post and the Franklin County United Bikers of Maine (UBM) met Sunday in Kingfield for a Poker Run and to finalize plans for the Red Cross Blood Drive they are sponsoring August 7 at Murray Hall in Jay. This is just one of the charitable ventures the UBM sponsors.

Fayette’s Comprehensive Planning Board has been working on the state mandated comprehensive plan for the Town for more than a year.

Several parts of the plan have gone through the first draft form. Several more have to be done.

It is now time to mail a Town Survey and plan public hearings. The survey is designed to be answered by two people and mailed to a collection agency. All surveys should be returned by August 20.

Fifteen representatives from six different museums and historical societies attended the western regional meeting of the Maine Association of Museums held recently at Norlands Living History Center.

This was one of four area gatherings across the state to explain the purpose and structure of the recently organized Maine Association of Museums, and to discuss the needs of member organizations.

More than twenty citizens were present at the Livermore Falls Planning Board meeting to add input in the drafting of a minimum living standards ordinance.

Residents once again complained of the conditions that now exist in the Strickland area where a family is living with less than what they believe is today’s minimum living standard – electricity, water, and a sanitary disposal system.

As the only town in the area without any standards, long time resident Nancy Morris said we can expect more of the same problems.

After more than one hour of discussion, the Planning Board voted to continue working on a minimum occupancy ordinance. The ordinance will include compliance penalties and be enforced by the Town’s code enforcement officer. A special workshop will be held Wednesday, August 1, to deal with drafting the ordinance.

Compiled by Pam Harnden