100 years ago,1910

“Not within my memory” remarked an Auburn man to The Sun yesterday, “has there ever been a time before when the local ice company could cut ice on the river, load it into their wagons and deliver it to their customers as they are doing now. The ice is nine inches thick, clear as crystal and of fine quality. The wagons are driven right onto the ice fields and loaded and then start out through the city delivering the ice to customers.”

50 years ago, 1960

NEW GLOUCESTER — Rodney Searles, 17, who has been a rock collector for some time, received three specimens of unidentified rocks from Russia Wednesday.

Searles wrote a letter to Nikita Khrushchev last summer requesting rocks for his collection, which include green tourmalines and garnets, and number about 400.

Wednesday he received the rocks and a letter from B. Ponomarev, Secretary of Youth Organization in Russia.

25 years ago, 1985

Androscoggin County legislators say a letter from a anti-nuclear group calling for allegiance to a referendum vote on waste disposal is “pushy,” “childish” and “intimidating.”

Most polled informally Sunday night say they have no intentions of challenging the will of the voters, but are still offended by the Maine Nuclear Referendum Committee request. Only one plans to return the prickly pledge letter mailed out late last week by the MNRC, the rest say they plan to ignore it.