100 Years Ago: 1924

While Joseph Michaud, lumberjack, was receiving treatment in the hospital for a badly cut foot, his chum and companion, Joseph Goulet, 41, of Turner, was wearing out his shoes and spending his savings. Mr. Michaud complained in the Auburn municipal court Saturday morning when Goulet was arraigned on an embezzlement charge.

It was a case, he thought, of the shoe being on the other foot, and the court agreed with him for Goulet was held in $200 bonds for the October term of Superior court, after he had pleaded not guilty and waived examination though his attorney, M. L. Lizotte.

Michaud said that he and Goulet were working in a Turner lumber camp and that he had a bankroll of $85 in his wallet when he cut his foot while working. When taken to the hospital he left the wallet with Goulet to pay the doctor’s bill, etc. Meantime, he said. Goulet spent $74 of it on himself and wore out a pair of shoes which he valued at $2.50. He was represented by J. A. Pulsifer.

50 Years Ago: 1974

More than 20 youngsters were awarded certificates at Thursday’s final party noting the end of the Children’s Summer Reading Program at the Lewiston Public Library.

Director Sheila Bailey presented the certificates which listed the titles of the books which the children, ranging in grades three through seven, had read over the summer.

Members of the club are required to read at least ten books. Books were given out to three whose names were chosen from those who had read 15 or more books.

The group met every Thursday at 2 p.m. during the summer months and reported on the books which they read and which were assigned from a designated list set  by library directors.

25 Years Ago: 1999

Jane Muskie, widow of former secretary of state, U.S. senator and Maine Gov. Edmund S. Muskie, along with the director of the Washington D.C.- based Muskie Foundation, will meet with the Muskie Memorial Committee next week to provide financial and moral support for a monument celebrating Rumford’s native son.

Ed Clohossey, a member of the committee devoted to raising funds for the memorial, said Jane Muskie will present a donation from the Muskie Foundation to go toward the $100,000 needed to erect the three-paneled, granite monument.

The presentation will take place in Rumford on the ledge overlooking Rumford Falls and the Androscoggin River reflection pool where the monument will be placed next summer.

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