100 Years Ago: 1919 Lewiston was accepted as the permanent name for the Lewiston Post of the American Legion at the organization meeting  Sunday afternoon at city hall. William A. Maillet was elected post commander, by-laws were accepted, and the post was in its way with a membership of 609. 50 Years Ago: 1969 The […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 An effort is being made to secure Congressman White Jr. to be the guest of the Chamber commerce and speak before a public meeting in Auburn this month. Congressman White’s intimate knowledge of the national life at Washington will prove intensively interesting to his Auburn friends. The date of his coming […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 The Wednesday morning club will meet this week with Mrs. A.T. Stray at  74 Pleasant St., Auburn. 50 Years Ago: 1969 Plans for the forthcoming Christmas party were discussed at a meeting of the Auburn Senior Citizens Wednesday at the First Universalist Church. The party will be held on Wednesday, Dec. […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 Miss Dorothy Porter of  Greene has returned from New York. where she has been studying with Chalif, at the Russian ballet school. Miss Porter is remembered by many local people as a soloist at the recital of Mrs. Fanny Tewksbury Heth’s dancing classes last spring. She has been engaged as Mrs. […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 President Skelton of the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce has appointed the following committee to take up with the city council the erection of a windshield on North Bridge; Willis M. Abbott,chairman.: Louis J. Brann, William F.Carrigan, Robert J. Hodgson, and George Huskins.”I’ve been hearing of a  windshield on North Bridge ever […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 About 2.30, on any Saturday afternoon, some of the youngest patrons of the Auburn Public Library are reasonably certain to wander up to the desk and, peering over, inquire  “if we are going to have a story this afternoon?”  The story hour is at three o’clock. It has become a regular […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 A social event of local interest will be that of the seventh annual ball, to be held Thanksgiving night at Heth’s academy under the auspices of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Lewiston and Auburn This year’s event will be of unusual interest, as no ball was held last year on […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 High school pupils of Lewiston and Auburn are praying for fair weather for their annual football game, Thursday at Lewiston Park. 50 Years Ago: 1969 The Health Careers Club of Lewiston High School has begun a stimulating as well as an active and interesting program. Formerly the Future Nurses’ Club, it […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 The .Auburn W.C.T.C meets on Friday at New Odd Fellows hall. Included in the program will be a sketch of the local I.S.S. work by Miss Helen Keyes and Mrs. Bertha Haskell. They will speak on “This Thanksgiving.” 50 Years Ago: 1969 Various area clergymen. headed by Rev. George E. Bullens […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 A most unique affair was given Tuesday evening at Abou Ben Adhen Hall, under the auspices of Liberty Rebekah Lodge. It was on the order of a poverty party and the guests numbering over a hundred for the most part dressed in old and picturesque attire and the unpopular few who […]