The Wilton Electric Light and Power company has laid the pipe for lighting by acetylene gas from Main street down Depot street to the lower mill. The company now has 350 burners in operation and many more have been contracted for and will be added to the system as soon as the buildings are piped. The generator will supply 1,500 lights as at present arranged.

Eruptions. The only way to get rid of pimples and other eruptions is to cleanse the blood, improve the digestion, stimulate the kidneys, liver and skin. The medicine to take is Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which as cured thousands.

50 Years Ago, 1955

The newspaper you’re reading right now is today’s best and biggest bargain. That’s the conclusion of a Michigan State University professor who has made a study of newspapers.

The authority is Dr. Hebert Lee Williams of the MSU College of Communications Arts. Dr. Williams is co-author of “Newspaper Organization and Management,” a book both for schools and the trade to be published in September.

Dr. Willams in an interview cited the nickel cigar, the bus ride, the cup of coffee and the candy bar as a few typical items that have jumped in price with inflation. In contrast, he said, the average newspaper has held the line at a price of five or six cents.

25 Years Ago, 1980

The 27th annual Bean Hole Festival, sponsored by the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce, was held at the Oxford Fairgrounds with thousands of people enjoying activities including an antique hand-pump fire engine parade, two road races, firemen’s muster, Kiwanis auction and food sale and most of all over 800 pounds of baked beans.

Summer months mark the peak of the produce production time in Maine, and roadside stands abound. Also more common this time of year are the farmer’s markets, where groups of farmers bring truckloads of fresh native produce into parking lots and back roads, making a modern-day version of the old village market.