100 years ago, 1916
Mrs. Lila Jordan of the Hillcrest hospital, Auburn, has offered a part of her farm to the city through the park commissioners for a public park. This land is situated on South Main street and faces Cook street. The land contains a spring, from which flows a stream big enough to make a bathing pool for the children in the summer, and even now there is enough ice for them to skate on. The only condition that Mrs. Jordan imposes is that the Prospect Hill line be extended about 900 yards to the hospital. For several years, she has been endeavoring to have this done, but so far her efforts have been futile.

50 years ago, 1966
The first Lewiston business displaced by the Urban Renewal program to announce a new location is the Linoleum Center Inc., which will move to 3 Middle St. and will occupy all three floors of the property at that address. Henry J. (Hyme) Shanahan, head of the flooring concern, said the business will be moved from its present location at 140 Middle St., to the new address as soon as the premises at the location have been remodeled to fit his needs. There will be 7,200 feet of floor space at the new location.

25 years ago, 1991
LA Arts is once again sponsoring a trip to the Portland Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Concert for all 800 fourth-grade students in Lewiston and Auburn public and private schools. In the concert this year, selections from the popular musical, “Fiddler on the Roof,” will be performed by members of the Maine State Music Theater and the Portland Symphony Orchestra. The singers will be in costume, and the stage will feature scenery representing the selected scenes. The program will be narrated to help the young audience follow the story.

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