100 years ago, 1917In spite of the snow Friday, many automobiles made trips between Lewiston and Augusta over the Winthrop route and reported the going wasn’t bad. Lewiston streets were deep in slush and wet snow. The ordinances require that snow be removed in the business sections by the store keepers but for the most […]

100 years ago, 1917“The waste house” so-called of the Columbia mills, Lewiston, made its autumnal attempt to burn down, Wednesday afternoon. Flammable material makes for many fires in this small wooden building. 50 years ago, 1967Santa Claus waved his invisible magic wand, the band played Christmas carols, and the lights on this huge tree in […]

100 years ago, 1917The sugar blockade in Lewiston and Auburn is broken for the present. Fifty thousand pounds of sugar arrived in Lewiston Monday — a car load — for F. G. Davis & Co., and has been distributed by this wholesale firm of grocers to their customers, and on Tuesday F. G. Davis & […]

100 years ago, 1917The plant of the Colonial Paper Co. in Mechanic Falls was practically destroyed by fire early today. The loss is estimated at $40,000. No official statement of the value of the buildings or of the insurance could be obtained from local owners. The blaze is believed to have been caused by a […]

100 years ago, 1917There has been no change in the local sugar situation, although some of the merchants expect partial relief by the latter part of the week. However, they explain, there is nothing certain about it. A great many families in the city are entirely out of sugar and in a few instances, at […]

100 years ago, 1917The local equal suffrage league, at its meeting in Lewiston city building Tuesday, pledged its most loyal support both to the State association, and to the non-partisan policy of the National woman suffrage association, in its work for the immediate submission of a Federal amendment to the constitution granting suffrage to women. […]

100 years ago, 1917As the new Auburn charter provides for the election of women to the school board, a mass meeting has been arranged for Saturday at Library hall in Auburn, to consider the choice of a woman candidate. Several of the prominent citizens have been interviewed on the question, and the project seems in […]

100 years ago, 1917The sugar famine in Lewiston-Auburn was a little relieved Tuesday morning — very little, and yet it was possible to get sugar by dint of perseverance. “We have received 100 pounds this week,” said one lending grocer. “It comes in small lots and we never know when we are to get any […]

100 years ago, 1917A persistent rumor was heard in Auburn Monday morning to the effect that Lewiston people were endeavoring to obtain the Conant & Andrews lot, so-called, where that firm operates a livery stable, with the idea of erecting a theater thereon. That there is something more than idle gossip behind the rumor of […]

100 years ago, 1917Conservation of food in this section is being felt not only by the retailers and wholesalers, but by the garbage men. It is a fact, according to reports, that the people of these two cities are exercising a heap more care in the serving and saving of foodstuffs. The plan seems to […]