100 years ago: 1918 A rush order for hospital garments has been received by the local Red Cross. Yarn for sweaters for men in the Navy has been received and the knitted garments must be returned by the middle of the month. 50 years ago: 1968 When the Women’s Fellowship of the First United Church […]

100 years ago: 1918 Restrictions on the purchase of sugar for consumption in homes and public eating places were removed Tuesday night by the Food Administration. 50 years ago: 1968 The annual Dairy Day Parade will be held in Lewiston and Auburn on Saturday, May 24, 1969, according to a decision reached last night during […]

100 years ago: 1918 William E. Conant of North Turner recently went into the Sun office with a Green Mountain potato, one end of which had grown through the handle of an iron. Evidently, some child had lost her plaything which became buried in the garden and as the potato grew it reached it and […]

100 years ago: 1918 When Miss Helen J. Owen, automobile expert for the YWCA, first came to this country two years ago from England. Every man to whom she talked asked the same question, “Whoever heard of a woman chauffeur?” It was the Women’s Suffrage Party in Brooklyn which finally entrusted its car to her. […]

100 years ago: 1918 Willis I. Ayer of Rockland, a merchant who is prominently connected with the Methodist church and local athletics, received word Monday to report in New York, preparatory to going to France for duties as a YMCA war secretary. He has been granted an extension of time until Dec. 17, in order […]

100 years ago: 1918 The ban, which has prohibited local stores from opening evenings, will be lifted Dec. 18 and from that date until Christmas shoppers will have the privilege of purchasing gifts during the evenings. Permission to do this has been obtained from the federal government by local merchants. 50 years ago: 1968 Persons […]

100 years ago: 1918 At the Dewitt hotel every Sunday evening, a program of excellent music has been held from 6 to 8 o’clock, the hours of the Sunday night supper. The Dewitt has made the Sunday night musical suppers famous in the area. 50 years ago: 1968 An official of the Auburn Housing Authority […]

100 years ago: 1918 The danger from an attack of the grippe or influenza, after the acute stage, is when the lowered vitality makes the system easy prey for any diseases in which it has experienced. The disability resulting from an attack of the grippe is so persistent that if the blood is not built […]

100 years ago: 1918 Mrs. Lewis Peck, county chairman of the Junior Red Cross, announces that the Lewiston-Auburn Junior Red Cross has accepted the requisitions for 3,000 veneered splints and 10 hospital tables. This is in line with the work being done in larger cities, where various kinds of hospital supplies are being made by […]