100 Years Ago: 1919 Corn-roasters enjoyed their annual outing Saturday at the Leonard farm Saturday night, with twenty-two present. This was an ideal setting for an affair of this kind. A short walk from the car line out on the Dyer Road leads one to a picturesque farmhouse over a hundred years old, formerly the […]

100 years ago: 1919 Training in salesmanship started at the B. Peck Company, an instructional course lasting one year, it was announced at a supper Thursday night at Dan Long’s, when the system was explained by J.G. Patteo of the Dry Goods Economist to the employees of the store. Four groups will study the game […]

100 years ago: 1919 Work will begin Monday upon an additional development at the Deer Rips power station at the Androscoggin Electric Co. which will increase the available horsepower at this plant by 2,500, then making the total power there 8,500, enough for the needs of Lewiston and Auburn. The cost of the development will […]

100 years ago: 1919 All of the male students were detained this morning after chapel exercises at Bates College to consider the forming of a college band. Dana Woodard, ’21, who has charge of the meeting, outlined the projected band this year and an appeal urged all men who could play band instruments to attend […]

100 years ago: 1919 The historical sketch of the City of Auburn, delivered at the semi-centennial of the city, Sept. 12, is being printed under the auspices of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce. 50 years ago: 1969 The Troop and Pack 101 combined Boy Scout/Cub Scout group will feature safety flares for automobiles in their […]

100 years ago: 1919 With President Wilson’s condition showing steady improvement, those tending him were concerned today in preventing any exertion which might cause a relapse. Although it was thought likely that the president would be permitted to give a small portion of each day to pressing official business, most of the time is to […]

100 years ago: 1919 The Women’s Home Missionary Society of the High Street M.E. Church will meet Wednesday evening with Mrs. D.B.Holt, 99 High St., Auburn. Friday evening the Ladies Circle will entertain members of the parish and friends in the church vestry. A pleasant evening is being anticipated. Sunday School Rally Day will be […]

100 years ago: 1919 Lewiston and Auburn looked alive at the first convention of the American Legion in Bangor yesterday. Two of the delegates for the National Convention at Minneapolis to be held on Nov. 11 were selected from these cities: George C. Webber of Auburn and James A. Walsh of Lewiston and one of […]

100 years ago: 1919 John O. Wooley, one of the greatest exponents of prohibition in America, will meet here Sunday, Sept. 28. In addition to Wooley, there will be a number of other temperance speakers who will speak in different churches of the two cities on the same date. These men are coming in of […]

100 years ago: 1919 The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Auburn as a city will make a pleasant page in her history. Although the committee of ex-mayors which arranged the exercises had at first planned an elaborate program — one that included a great parade, floats, a buffet supper to which all the city […]