100 years ago,1910

TOPSHAM — Sixty Italians at work on the new dam for the pulp mills here had to flee from their bunks in the commissary department tonight at 10 o’clock when the long wooden building caught afire. They had little time as the building was quickly demolished. Fifteen other workmen on the night shift lost everything that they possessed within the building. Over $1,000 worth of provisions, boots and shoes etc., were destroyed.

50 years ago, 1960

Colorfully garbed snowshoers from New England and Canada will converge on the Lewiston-Auburn area early next year for the annual International Snowshoe Congress.

Armand Dutil of Lewiston, chairman of the organization committee, announced yesterday that the 1961 Congress will be held in the Twin Cities Jan. 27 to 29.

Dutil estimated that 15,000 visitors will attend the three-day convention. He said that more than 130 snowshoe clubs from the two countries would participate.

25 years ago, 1985

Ten men from Lewiston, Auburn and Gray have been selected for inclusion in the 1985 edition of “Outstanding Young Men of America.”

The men selected of the 1985 edition are N. Paul Gauvreau, Gregory G. Nadeau, Bradford Eugene Boutilier, James R. Handy, John Theodore Jenkins, and Jim Handy, all of Lewiston; Martin Scholl Hayden, Brunswick; Donnell P. Carroll and Michael Edward Carroll, Gray; and Jeffrey Alvin Gongoll, Auburn.