100 Years Ago: 1924 Friday evening on Feb 8, the Mishawaka Tribe of New Gloucester will receive the traveling wampum belt from Algonquin Tribe of Lewiston. The adopted degree will be conferred. A baked bean supper will follow the meeting. 50 Years Ago: 1974 A series of classes in sketching and drawing with Joanne Ayotte […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Members of the Lewiston Police Department will no longer patrol the streets with their hands dangling idly at their sides, but will carry a nice white stick better known as the “night stick.” This has been a long abandoned custom. (Chief Field on his recent trip to one of the metropolises) […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Livermore Grange was especially fortunate in securing helpful speakers for its meeting of Feb. 2nd. In the morning A.W. White of Augusta gave a stereoptican lecture illustrating his work in the interests of the Farmers Union and Co-operative Marketing. This lecture was of great interest to the fruit growers and shippers. […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Much comment and some complaints have been made about the cold weather of last Saturday. Here is a case where commendation is proper. Two Minot lumbermen were coming out of the woods with their last load of logs late Saturday night and one of the horses became sick. The temperature was […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The next department meeting of the Women’s Literary will be on “Art in the Home,” and will be at the Androscoggin Electric Co. Hall next Thursday afternoon at 2:30. The lecture, prepared by Mrs. Grace P.T. Knudson, former art chairman of the State Federation, WLU will be given. With this is […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Sunday morning was the “coldest ever known” on Quaker Road in Leeds, as the thermometer registered 27 below zero. On account of the extreme cold and drifted road, neighbors from this way were unable to attend a social at Mr. Bean’s on Saturday evening. 50 Years Ago: 1974 (Sun Journal photo) […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A happy affair indeed was the sleigh party of the Triangle Club on Wednesday evening. The party included: Mary Ingraham, Ruth Strout, Glenna Haskell, Imogene Chick, Bernice Chick, Alice Jeffries, Mrs. R.P. Parker, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Grace Wing, Mrs. F.W. Quimby, Mrs. Laura Crocker, Mrs. Ida Greene, Mrs. John Sturgis, Miss […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The complete program for the Auburn second annual winter, Feb. 24-15-16 has just been announced by the Auburn Community Service which is arranging it. It includes a bewildering array of competitive contacts, fancy skating and skiing exhibition, hockey game between Bates-Colby Colleges, a carnival street parade with prizes for the best […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Pupils in the Merrill Hill School, Auburn were dismissed yesterday morning because of the coldness in the rooms of those grades. Every effort was made by the janitor (who worked Sunday and came on the job at 4 am yesterday) to get the building heated to no avail. Some of the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Gustave Simard of Lewiston owns the second largest bakery in Maine, yet he never made a loaf of bread himself. His bakery, known as Simards’s Bakery, produces and distributes to the retail trade nearly two million loaves a year. The average weekly sale in the wintertime is 37,000 loaves; and about […]