If the plans at the Y. W. C. A. athletic committees materialize, there will be big things doing by the girls of the two cities in the athletics line. The Bates College Girls’ Athletic Field, with its tennis courts and baseball diamond, is available for the Y. W. C. A. to use this summer. The committee wants to secure a good physical director for the summer and is corresponding with several applicants. A series of league games between the girls of various shoe shops and mills is one interesting feature of the plans for this summer.

50 years ago, 1968

Apparently well-planned theft of a quantity of cigarettes valued at about $16,000 from a Lewiston business establishment took place over the weekend and it was being investigated today by members of the Lewiston police deportment. Captain John Harkins said 125 cases of cigarettes were taken from the L-A United Grocers building at 415 Lisbon Street. The thief or thieves entered the building through on elevator shaft in the Franco-American Club building, and forced a window.

25 years ago, 1993

About 60 gallons of herbicide leaked onto Riverside Drive in Auburn Monday morning when a Maine Department of Transportation trailer caught fire while workers were spraying roadside vegetation. The fire was quickly extinguished but caused about $4,000 damage to the trailer, which was towed behind a dump truck and manned by one worker who was spraying, said fire officials. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection responded, although the herbicide solution, consisting mostly of water and not flammable, posed no health risk to residents and was subsequently cleaned up by a professional agency.

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