100 years ago, 1915At chapel exercises at Bates College, Tuesday morning, President Chase announced to the student body that the faculty had found it impossible to grant the petition which had been received asking that regular classes be suspended on Monday mornings, until chapel time. The plan for doing away with lectures on that morning […]

100 years ago, 1915To date the “Mayflower Man” has come to town eight times and in that time has sold $25 worth of arbutus. He brought a big basket of beautiful flowers to Lewiston Monday and said he thought they would be the last for the season. 50 years ago, 1965Hillcrest Poultry of Lewiston is […]

100 years ago, 1915Twenty arrests for intoxication were made in Lewiston. Friday afternoon and night. A record in local police records dealing with ordinary times of seven arrested in 20 minutes was made Friday afternoon. The rain and the east wind which made conditions out of doors drove many of the men inside the barrooms […]

100 years ago, 1915The instruction car now sidetracked at the Upper Maine Central Station, Lewiston, is attracting attention among people whose business brings them into that locality. On the outside the car is very similar to the ordinary passenger coach but the mysterious pieces of machinery which show somewhat obscurely from the windows, suggest that […]

100 years ago, 1915Lewiston police believe that a campaign to prolong the series of burglaries was halted by the opportune arrival of Patrolman Lewis, Tuesday night, at the house of Miss Minnie Quimby, 65 Oak street. He saw a man trying to raise a window sash and another man watching. The pane, instead of being […]

100 years ago, 1915One or the most interesting automobilists in Lewiston is Mrs. Wealthy Murch of White street, who is in her seventy-second year. This season Mrs. Murch has purchased a Ford runabout and is driving it herself. For five years or over Mrs. Murch has been a frequent passenger in the cars of her […]

100 years ago, 1915Work on the permanent streets and roads in Lewiston will begin within a few days. In fact the gas and electric light companies that will be affected by the city work are making preparations to do their part. The bituminous paving will be laid on College street from Campus avenue down toward, […]

100 years ago, 1915We are now pumping about five and one half millions more gallons of water per day than we did at this time a year ago,” said J. B. Longley, supt. of the Lewiston Water Works, Thursday. “Between Feb. 26, 1914, and Feb. 24, 1915 we pumped a total of 132,770,000 gallons of […]

100 years ago, 1915 Lisbon street, Lewiston, got its first bath of the season from Pine to Thursday, when the lone sprinkler that the city uses to send ahead of its sweeping machine paraded the street with its blessing of water. For the first time this season since the snow departed, the street was passable without […]

100 years ago, 1915The Lewiston City Park men began their duties yesterday morning cleaning up the park and will at once begin putting out the settees. The hood will be removed from the fountain, probably today. The work of cleaning up the park has begun this year much earlier than usual owing to the pleasant […]