100 Years Ago: 1919 Two hundred and tickets will be given out for the annual dinner given by the Salvation Army on Thanksgiving day. The dinner will be served this year at the Priscilla theater and Adjutant and Mrs. Fowler wIth their assistant Miss Edith Hall and other Salvation Army workers are busily planning for […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 The Lewiston-Auburn Housewives League will meet on Tuesday afternoon at the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce rooms. Mrs. Florence A Warner of the Federal Reserve Bank will give a talk and demonstrate financial management of the family income. The meeting is open to everyone and the plan of spending the family income during […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 This evening at 7.45 o’clock the Young People’s class of the High St. M.E Church in Auburn will hold their monthly meeting in the vestry. The Win One class will also meet this evening with Miss Nellie Jordan. Tomorrow evening, the pastor will take “Forgiveness” as his topic with a meeting […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 Sugar has been very scarce in the stores for the last ten days, but the grocers hope for more relief in time for Thanksgiving cooks to have more to be thankful for. No hope is expected however, that one might carry home enough to last a month. If he gets a […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 A hunting party. composed of Chief Field of the Lewiston Police Department, Fred Furbush, Samuel Stewart, Joseph Stewart, Harvey, McGraw and Roy Temple of Lewiston, Ernest Furbush and Percy Rose of Greene and Frank Durgin of Turner, left Saturday morning on a two week’s trip to North East Carry. 50 Years […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 A meeting of the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce will be held next Thursday evening at 7:30 at which time the question of a modern building code for Lewiston will be discussed. 50 Years Ago: 1969 Lewiston Exchange Club members will hear a talk on the new housing for the elderly at […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 Miss Randilla Willard of the YWCA Foreign Committee recently spoke on” Americanization.” Some delightful piano numbers were given by Mrs. Helen Freeman Moulton. Mrs. H.E. Ring was in charge of the program. 50 Years ago: 1969 The second meeting of the Lucky Stars 4-H Club was held recently at the home […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 An Interesting two-page news-sheet of the vintage of 1799, old and brown and frayed as to edges and brought into the Journal office Friday noon by Arthur Lovejoy of the Miller farm, in Greene. It was one of the old copies of the Kennebec Intelligence whose motto was “To Publish Truth […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 A musical lecture-recital in charge of Mrs. Alice Bonney Record will be given Friday evening at the Philharmonic club. The subject of the program is “Our Musical Debt to the South.” The meeting will be at the studio, Main Street, Auburn, 50 Years Ago: 1969 Mary Dillingham Chapter, Daughters of the […]

100 Years Ago: 1919 The Women’s Hospital Association held a meeting on Wednesday at the CMC Hospital in Lewiston. A quantity of work was prepared for the local clubs and granges who have volunteered to do sewing the hospital during their winter months 50 Years Ago: 1969 At Bates College last night at the fall […]