100 years ago: 1919 Fifty girls, members of the Bates College senior class, were guests of George A. Ross, the Lewiston caterer, at dinner Wednesday night. Several weeks ago, when Mr. Ross reopened his ice cream parlors after extensive repairing and renovating, the senior class gave him a silver cup. The dinner party was, in […]

100 years ago: 1919 The annual meeting of the Lewiston and Auburn Suffrage League was held Tuesday afternoon in the city building with the president, Mrs. Peaslee, presiding. The secretary’s report was read and accepted. It was voted to endorse the league of women voters, an organization, recommended by Mrs. Carrie Chapmann Catt, head of […]

100 years ago: 1919 “Le Petit Journal,” the weekly French paper, which will be published soon, has been in existence for 12 years. During the war, it was published twice a week and finally became a weekly paper. It was then a five-column paper, but the new publication will have seven columns. 50 years ago: […]

100 years ago: 1919 Miss Jennie Lawrence Pratt, Bates ’90, has been writing and publishing poetry of a high order of merit ever since her college days. She is the author of the beautiful sonnet which is printed beneath Professor Stanton’s picture in the Bates library. The fine memorial poem written for the special service […]

100 years ago: 1919 At a brief but important session of the Auburn School Board held Wednesday night, teachers for the ensuing year were appointed and their salaries fixed. Teachers at the elementary grades received an increase of $50 over their salary of last year and those of the senior high and the second year […]

100 years ago: 1919 Lewiston and Auburn were swept away with an epidemic of dozens of weddings. Priests at St. Peter’s and St. Louis churches were kept busy Monday morning from dawn until noon uniting young people of the two cities into holy wedlock. Not since the war has there been quite a general rush […]

100 years ago: 1919 Get your garden ready is the advice to the Victory gardeners of the country from the National War Garden commission of Washington. Use all the bits of help possible. Any reader of this paper can get a free garden book by writing to the commission by sending a 2-cent stamp for […]

100 years ago: 1919 The High Street Methodist Church of Auburn will build a hospital in China. This is the allotment of the parish in the great centenary campaign, which opens all over the country, May 18. The sum needed is $10,000 and while it is already assured that the quota will be raised, it […]

100 years ago: 1919 About 600 people attended the dancing party given by the telephone girls in Auburn Hall Wednesday evening. The affair was held for the benefit of the operators’ union, and about $100 was realized. Guests were W.F. Clark, E.K. Bly and Donald Heath of the Portland’s office. Music was by McLeur’s Orchestra. […]

100 years ago: 1919 The Stanton Bird Club had a most successful May bird walk this week when 15 different specimens were seen, one of the new arrivals being a warbler. Prof. Fred I. Pomeroy had charge, and a roundtable was conducted on the bird’s seen thus far this spring. 50 years ago: 1969 A […]