100 years ago, 1911

While driving on Main Street, Lewiston, yesterday afternoon, Mrs. A. D. Goodrich and Mrs. Addie Cook, both of this city, were thrown from their carriage and Mrs. Goodrich was seriously injured. The horse they were driving became frightened at the white hearse of the A. T. Reny & Sons, reared on its hind feet and fell striking its head on the frozen ground causing its death.

50 years ago, 1961

Forty-one gallons of range oil was lost yesterday morning when children playing in a cellar at 252 Park St., Lewiston, got a bit too playful.

A spokesman for the fire department, which was summoned to clean up the oily mess, said the youngsters opened the spout on the range oil barrel. The oil poured all over the floor.

They were playing in the cellar of a four-story building owned by B. Heutz of Lewiston, according to the LFD.

25 years ago, 1986

Employees of Bates Fabrics Inc. in Lewiston voted Sunday to allow two North Carolina brothers to buy a controlling interest in the financially troubled mill.

Bates President Thomas U. LeVeene and Lucille Barrett, president of Local 462, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, said the move should result in job security for the mill’s 425 employees.