100 years ago: 1925

John C. Woodrow of Auburn expects shortly to move the house situated on Hampshire Street, which he purchased from Dingley-Foss Shoe Co., to the corner of Union and Hampshire streets. He is planning to remodel the building, which was formerly a boarding house, into an apartment house.

It will stand on the property that Mr. Woodrow bought of E.L. Philon after moving the present building off.

50 years ago: 1975

Auburn firefighters performed an unusual chore Friday night. Shortly before 6:30 p.m., the crew of Aerial Two was dispatched to the front of the county building to remove an American flag which had become tangled around the flagpole.

25 years ago: 2000

Four months after opening its expanded Oxford Walmart Supercenter with the promise that its combined grocery and department store would be open 24 hours a day, the store has bowed to the lack of customers in the wee hours by closing its doors from midnight to 6 a.m.

As of March 1, the 142,000-square-foot store began closing during those hours and put up strips of red tape covering over the ‘Open 24 Hours’ declaration below the store’s sign at its entrance on Route 26.

“The people in the area just weren’t coming in” in the middle of the night, said Cindy Turner. “We didn’t have the sales.”

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