100 Years Ago: 1924

Bad men are elected to office when good women stay at home, said Mrs. Althea Quimby, state president of the W. C. T. U. at the annual meeting of the Androscoggin county W. C. T. U., which held a two days’ session in Turner on Tuesday and Wednesday. We are not taking politics into prohibition, she continued, urging the women to make good use of their privilege of voting, but we are taking prohibition into politics. And not only should the women vote, but they should urge their friends and neighbors to do likewise. It’s a psychological fact, people are very likely to do as their neighbors do, and Mrs. Quimby citing the case of a good woman, who on election day decided that she was too busy to go to the polls; she had too many household cares and could not spend the time. But when she looked down the street and saw first one woman in her immediate neighborhood, and then another going in the direction of the polling place, she decided that after all, voting was the popular activity that day, and household duties could wait.

50 Years Ago: 1974

The bond issue which Auburn residents will vote on next Tuesday which, if approved, would permit the Allied Container Corp. to build its Auburn plant more inexpensively than otherwise, was aired at a breakfast meeting of the Lewiston-Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce today, and an official of the firm expressed optimism, pointing out that “in no place else in the country are there people like there are in Auburn.”

25 Years Ago: 1999

A husband and wife were sent to prison Thursday, seven months after they were convicted of trying to hire a hitman to kill the husband’s 21 year old step daughter in 1997.

Roger LaPierre 44, and former Donna Dube, 39 were ordered to spend three years in prison.

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