• “The people here do not drink enough water to keep healthy,” exclaimed a well-known physician. “The numerous cases of stomach trouble, kidney and bladder diseases and rheumatism are mainly due to the fact that the drinking of water, nature’s greatest medicine, has been neglected.”
• The Middle Street sidewalk from Main Street to the upper Maine Central depot is badly in need of attention from the Public Works department. On one side of the street there is merely a mud walk and this so low that in wet weather or after a heavy shower, the street washings flow over the walk and make it necessary for pedestrians to wear rubber boots in order to protect themselves from the mud and wet.
50 years ago, 1957
A 500-pound black bear, captured a week ago last Saturday by Fred T. Clifford of 1140 Sabattus Road, may again be set free in the wilds of Piscataquis County.
Clifford left Lewiston yesterday for his camp at Katahdin Iron Works, near where he trapped the bruising bruin, but Mrs. Clifford said last night her husband had not completely made up her mind about freeing the animal.
Mrs. Clifford said the animal was taken from their home because she and her husband feared that the increased traffic caused by persons wanting to get a look at the animal, might cause an accident.
25 years ago, 1982
AUGUSTA – One thousand moose hunt applications bucked 60-1 odds Wednesday night to win permits to stalk the biggest game animal in North America. More than 1,000 spectators packed the Augusta State Armory for the four-hour drawing that determined who may take part in the controversial hunt that begins Sept. 20 in the northern half of the state.
• The commercial fishing industry along Maine’s coast is being hard hit by a natural disaster brought on by myriads of thin, jellyfish-like organisms which are fouling fishing gear and reducing the catch to a point where the livelihood of many fishermen is threatened.
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