100 Years Ago: 1924 Lewiston is dangerously close to being cut off from its water supply. For several hours between late Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning no water was flowing through the pipes from Lake Auburn to the reservoir because of the massing of broken ice around the intake. This Is the first time this […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The Lewiston-Auburn Symphony orchestra was officially organized at a meeting Sunday in the quarters at the First Universalist church, Lewiston, where rehearsals are held. Fred Bumpus of Auburn, veteran musician, was elected president of the association; B. H. Dingley, vice- president; Isaac J. Martin, business manager; Mabel MacGibbon, secretary, treasurer; Wilfred […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Ready to play “Alias Santa Claus?” to some Lewiston and Auburn youngsters. The first list of children, who through the Salvation Army have made their wishes for Christmas, is published today in the Lewiston Journal. The names will be identified by a number and a first name but addresses of the […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 “Dan” Chapman of Mechanic Falls, formerly of Lewiston, owes his life to a slender elm tree. The touring car he was driving skidded off the Mechanic Falls-Auburn road, west of Hearse House Hill, over the sheer embankment, dropping 20 feet into the deepest part of the Little Androscoggin River. The machine […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The misunderstanding of a word brought an anxious family and the undertaker to meet the 7.30 p.m. train at Hallowell station one day. last week. Ernest Meader, assistant agent for American Express Company tells the following story, considered a good joke on himself. “Word had been received at the office for […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 An Auburn man who is a musician, and therefore much interested in the music festival, read a few days ago, of the box of luscious McIntosh red apples, the product of the Chase orchards in Buckfield, which Homer N. Chase sent to Mme. Margaret Matzenauer, who was soloist at the festival […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Little George Tilton, a lad of seven or eight years, while coasting on Wilton’s Main street Saturday, ran into a team and was hit by the horse’s foot on his head. It was thought at first that he was hurt seriously as blood flowed profusely but the cuts on the side […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 An article for December 7, 1924 was unavailable, therefore an article from December 7, 1923 is being offered instead. A meeting of the Citizens committee suggested recently by Mayor Brann to undertake the promotion of a new hotel in Lewiston was called by the mayor Friday afternoon at his office in […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Miss Belle Foote of Bath has a novel and highly popular little business which she conducts in her home, the manufacturing and renting of puzzles. She makes them from interesting pictures, pasted on to specially prepared panels of three-ply wood which she cuts into intricate shapes, in tiny pieces and boxes, […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Three trains from Montreal, one from Quebec and another from Sherbrooke have been chartered to bring the Canadian Snowshoe Union members to Lewiston for their annual convention on February 7th and 8th. In this group of Canadian snowshoe, ski and skate artists there will be 100 members of the Tramways Employees’ […]