100 years ago, 1917 A public measure which will have the commendation of every Auburn citizen is the starting of a series of city skating ponds. Through the kindness of Mark Morrow, a field which he owns on Minot Avenue, near Fairview Avenue, has been dammed by city employees and flooded by the Auburn Fire […]

100 years ago, 1917Fire, discovered about 10 o’clock Tuesday night, destroyed the dormitory at Abbott School for Boys in Farmington. All of the 40 boys escaped from the building uninjured, but many lost all their belongings. Two alarms brought out the entire fire department but the firemen were hampered in their work by zero temperature. […]

100 years ago, 1917The price of coal in Lewiston and Auburn hasn’t been increased from $12 a ton cash at retail. There’s a story around town that the coal committee has unofficially suggested to the dealers that it wouldn’t be wise to send the price any higher at present. The price has been regulated to […]

100 years ago, 1917Friday will be “Red Cross morning” at Music Hall, Lewiston, and a complete performance of movies, vaudeville, orchestra and all the trimmings, will be given for the benefit of the Red Cross, according to an announcement by William P. Gray, general manager of the Empire, Strand and Music Hall theaters. This will […]

100 years ago, 1917At an early hour this morning, the strike of the motormen and conductors of the Lewiston division of the L. A. & W. Street Railway, which was called yesterday morning without previous warning to the public, seemed no nearer adjustment than it did at any time during the day Monday. Last evening […]

100 years ago, 1917(B. Peck Co. advertisement) We’ve heard from Santa Claus, and TOYLAND opens today. It’s bigger, better, livelier and jollier than ever. Monday, our windows will appear in full Christmas dress. 50 years ago, 1967The director of the Androscoggin County Task Force’s Community Action Program told a meeting in Lewiston Thursday night that […]

100 years ago, 1917The new Bates College Social Union will stand on Campus avenue, corner of Bardwell street, and fronting on Campus avenue. It is to be the beginning of a new quadrangle, which will probably ultimately contain a new dining hall, dormitories and a gymnasium. The interior has a large entrance hall containing the […]

100 years ago, 1917 Twenty-four respondents will be arraigned in the Lewiston municipal court, this morning, when they must answer to the charge either of gambling or of being present where gambling was going on. Two police raids resulted in the unusual number of arrests and only two of a total of 26 alleged gamblers […]

100 years ago, 1917An echo of the recent great local drive for the Y. M. C. A. is reported by Alberta P. Allen, a Junior high school pupil in Auburn. She received a contribution that carries far more weight in the drive than the mere value of the money given. The gift was $5 and […]

100 years ago, 1917A new jewelry business will be opened in Auburn this week, under the name of E. N. Cole & Co. Mr. Cole is too well known to Auburn and Lewiston people generally to need further introduction having been a resident of the former city for about 20 years. For eleven years past, […]