• Memorial Day in Lewiston if pleasant will be more largely observed than it has been for a great many years. Not only has it become the custom to decorate the graves of the dead soldiers but many people now take the opportunity to decorate the graves of their loved ones.
• Notices were posted in all of the Lewiston mills yesterday forenoon announcing a five percent increase in wages of the operatives. This will go into effect Monday, June 3, and is the third advance granted since August of 1906, making a total increase during the last year of about 15 percent.
50 years ago, 1957
• Maine’s 2 percent sales tax in effect six years was jumped to 3 percent today with enactment by the Legislature and Gov. Edmund S. Muskie’s signature.
• Lisbon Street, between Locust Street and South Avenue, might well be named “Gasoline Alley.”
In this relatively short length of road, a motorist needn’t ever worry about running out of gas because the area is literally flooded with the stuff.
There are no less than nine filling stations, either being constructed or already doing business, along this strip.
• Maine’s longest legislative session in history came to a close early this Memorial Day. At three o’clock this morning, the Legislature appeared entering its last hour, with the gavel probably falling around 3:30.
25 years ago, 1982
• Auburn’s Roak Block, once the “cradle” of the city’s shoe industry and now a renovated elderly housing complex, has been entered on the National Register of Historic Places.
• When Androscoggin County sheriff’s deputies uncovered an unusual drug-smuggling attempt at the County Jail several weeks ago, they never imagined the incident would appear in Playboy magazine.
But the well-known men’s magazine published a letter in its June issue which commented on the deputies’ discovery of quantities of marijuana that were smuggled into the jail inside a Rubik’s Cube.
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