“More gold than I have taken at any one time before since I have been collecting taxes,” said Tax Collector Davis as a Lewiston man turned in $90 in gold in payment of his tax.

“Yesterday the electric cars were running on schedule time.” Supt. Farr said to The Sun: “I tell you that it was a fierce old storm for this season of the year and it only reminds us of what we may expect a little later. We got along very well, and while of course considerable damage resulted to our wires, everything is in good working order now.”

50 Years Ago, 1954

A group of parents, protesting the closing of the kindergarten class at Frye School because of overcrowded conditions, were told at a Lewiston Education Board meeting that the proposal to recondition two closed third-floor rooms for future use will be considered this winter when the 1955-56 budget is being prepared. Chairman Normand B. Champoux said his board voted two weeks ago to abandon the kindergarten class at the school because its size had grown to the degree that it was not educationally sound to continue with the program. He explained one teacher was handling 42 subprimary children in the forenoon and 31 kindergarten children in the afternoon.

25 Years Ago, 1979

Major banks raised their prime lending rates to a record 15¾ percent, drawing an immediate charge of “profiteering” from a key congressman. Citibank, the nation’s second-largest bank, was the first to announce the largest from 15½ percent. Most other major banks promptly matched the increase, including No. 1 Bank of America. The increase was called “completely unjustified” by House Banking Committee Chairman Henry S. Reuss, D-Wis. “The banks are simply profiteering by these continuing hikes in the prime rate,” he added.