100 Years Ago: 1924 Policemen Sheffield and McGraw seized 5 one gallons of alcohol near the Grand Trunk freight shed Tuesday evening. The owner or owners skipped off into the darkness so that no arrests followed. The two officers received a tip early in the evening that the booze was to be delivered to that […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Spring “bunnets” to be worn by Edward Little High School girls will be “exclusive” handmade models in every sense of the word. Furthermore, of the dozens of hats made by the sophomores and Senior girls not a single one cost more than $4. The cheapest one — a stunning poke model […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Hiram B. Perkins, the well known barber of Spring Street, Skowhegan, got the surprise of his life a few mornings ago when on opening the kitchen door he found a skunk sitting on his doorstep. Presumably his foot hit the animal, at any rate Mr. Perkins changed right away to another […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 A lot of land on Thornes’s Corner has been sold by Andrew Belanger to a land company to be cut up into lots for people who want small places with garden-spaces, in the suburbs. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Girls of the Youth Fellowship of the High Street Congregational Church are serving as […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 “Success,” Harry Collins Spillman of New York told a gathering of nearly 300 men at the Auburn YMCA Friday night, “is doing what you can with what you have where you are.” Mr. Spillman–businessman, lecturer and educator, was at once entertaining and inspiring, and fully lived up to the reputation that […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Mrs. Elmina H. Royal, a graduate of the class of 1848, and grandmother of Prof. Hutchins, of the school faculty, was one of the speakers of the annual reunion of the Kents’ Hill Academy alumni in Portland Wednesday night. 50 Years Ago: 1974 The annual Charity Ball sponsored by the Gardner […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 If you don’t believe Maine girls are handy with the needle, let the folks visit the domestic arts class, being held this spring, like that at Edward Little High School. 50 Years Ago: 1974 The next meeting of the Androscoggin Historical Society, Tuesday afternoon March 26, will be devoted to an […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Gov. Baxter today issued a proclamation designating April 11, 1924, as Bird Day and April 6 to 12, 1924 as Be Kind to Animals Week. “We people of Maine have an unusual opportunity  to enjoy the beautiful and useful things God has placed here for us, the forests, hills, rivers, seacoast […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 The shops devoted exclusively to millinery which are to exhibit new fashions in spring chapeaux are Nellie Leader, Pickering Hat Shop, C. R. Roberge, Miss Oleson, Maude Merrow, Misses Bernatchez, Bella Bouchard, E.F. Soule and Caroline Fuller. 50 Years Ago: 1974 Maurice Fontaine, proprietor of Val’s Flower Boutique, will present the program […]

100 Years Ago: 1924 Besides a very pleasant  social evening at a recent dancing party at Mrs. Heth’s Studio, the Lewiston Auburn BPW club made over $20. 50 Years Ago: 1974 (from a Sun Journal photo) Lewiston’s Comprehensive High School Band, The Bandsmen from Edward Little High School and Brunswick High School presented an unusually […]