• Auburn will son have a steam roller puffing along its streets, the city government having voted to purchase one. It will be a ten-ton machine and will be bought from the Buffalo Steam Roller Company. The cost is $3,000 and the company will accept the city’s note for that amount, payable July 1st, 1905. No interest will be charged.
• Lewis Flanders of Auburn is soon to occupy the Old Market Clothing store on Court Street in Auburn. The store is now being placed in fine condition throughout, extensive repairs being made on the interior as well as the exterior.
50 Years Ago, 1954
The Ferris wheel whirled, the loudspeakers blared music and the concessionaires did a brisk business in the traditional favorites of cotton candy, ice cream and hot dogs as thousands of persons thronged the midway and exhibition halls of the 99th annual Maine State Fair when it opened at the Main Street grounds. A sunny afternoon with a light breeze and temperatures in the seventies helped to bring out about 5,000 spectators. Total Labor Day attendance, according to fair officials, was about 30,000.
25 Years ago, 1979
While the Twin Cities got a thorough drenching and wind unofficially gusted to 54 miles an hour, the area apparently escaped the worst of it when Tropical Storm David swept through. George T. Bell Jr., district superintendent of Central Maine Power Co., said the Kittery area and other places in York County, as well as Norway in Oxford County and Bridgton in Cumberland County took a far worse pasting than Lewiston-Auburn. The Twin Cities received 1.26 inches of rain. Bell said falling limbs and, in some instances, whole trees pulled down wires, cutting off power to some areas such as the Spring Road in Auburn and the upper Main Street section of Lewiston.
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