100 years ago, 1918 County Agent Harold J. Shaw, who has now moved to Auburn where an office will be found for him, is making plans for much work among the farmers the coming season. Among the important things under his consideration at present is the use of farm account books which are being gotten […]

100 years ago, 1918Manager McHugh of the Lewiston polo club has been notified that it will not be possible to hold the Lewiston-Portland game in city hall Tuesday night. Theaters close Tuesday on account of being allowed to run on the “heatless Mondays” and the fuel administration ruled that polo games and sports held in […]

100 years ago, 1918Ten reels of moving picture films were destroyed at the Bijou theatre in Lisbon Falls this noon by fire that caught in one of the films as the operator was rewinding it. The loss was confined to the film and the interior wiring of the machine booth. The total loss on the […]

100 years ago, 1918An order for doughnuts from Katanzas, Cuba! That’s what was received in Olfene’s Market, Auburn, this week. Here is the letter: Feb. 1, 1918. Olfene’s Public Market: Dear Sirs: As since I was a student in the old “Lewiston Falls Academy” I have not tasted a single doughnut made in that, to […]

100 years ago, 1918The annual ball of the Lunn & Sweet people will be held in Lewiston City Hall, Wednesday, but this year the treasury of the War Service club, to be used in making up the monthly boxes that are sent to every man who gone into the service from this factory. Every month […]

100 years ago, 1918 One of the points brought out at the session of the Housewives’ league here was that the committee on better drama and films, which includes Miss Kate Anthony of Auburn and Mrs. C. Norton of Lewiston, held steadfastly to the ideal of what was happily termed “safe and sane pictures,” not […]

100 years ago, 1918Backed by flags, with the tables decorated profusely, the Lewiston-Auburn Rotary club gathered Tuesday noon in the big factory room of the new Brockton Heel company to give them a housewarming and a welcome to the town. There was more or less mystery about the destination of the club’s pilgrimage Tuesday, the […]

100 years ago, 1918Just what is going on behind all the closely drawn store window curtains today is a matter of conjecture. And it will remain a deep mystery until tomorrow morning at ten-thirty, when the “Made In Lewiston-Auburn Week” will commence simultaneously in all the display windows in the two cities. Already the list […]

100 years ago, 1918Mrs. J. W. Stevens of 55 Manley Street, Auburn, has this to say to the Journal: “I am 72 years old but Friday morning I was forced to stand in line three solid hours when the thermometer was away below zero in order to get a little coal. This may be a […]