YESTERDAY …
10 years ago — Nov. 13, 2004
(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)
BANGOR — Perhaps renowned photojournalist W. Eugene Smith summed up the contradiction of his profession best. “I am a journalist – a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principal concern is for honesty, above all, honesty with myself,” Smith once said.
That’s the challenge that faces the photojournalists and graphic artists the banker daily news creating Arthur tells a story while under the pressure of deadlines. That they succeed an amazing percentage of the time is a testament to their dedication to the craft.
25 years ago — Nov. 13, 1989
BANGOR — U.S. Sen. William Cohen was among those honoring the nation’s veterans during the parade through downtown Bangor. The Maine congressman was flanked by Brig. Gen. Nicholas Emerita, commander of the Maine Air National Guard’s 101st Air Refueling Wing, and Col. William Deering of Bangor.
BANGOR — some watch, hands-on hearts are in salute, from along Main Street in Bangor. Some lined the route in Brewer. And some had even better seats — atop dad’s shoulders.
from the Bangor Emperor were police cars that led the parade with sirens and lights blaring to the horses from Mag-A-Bon Acres that trailed it, thousands of area residents lined the route of the Veterans Day parade to review the symbols of war and peace.
U.S. Sen. William Cohen, who marched in the parade with military representatives, later told reporters that with the virtual destruction of the Berlin Wall, it was time to remember service members who died for the cause of freedom.
50 years ago — Nov. 13, 1964
University of Maine freshman and sophomore women are being offered a course in marksmanship for the first time this year. The course, a noncredit one which is part of the physical education requirement for freshman and sophomore women, is primarily designed to prepare students to teach others.
BREWER — John Robinson and Mike Hatch, cocaptains of the poor high school football team, where the guests of honor at the weekly meeting of the poor Kiwanis Club.
The two are members of the pro-work Key Club and were honored before the traditional Bangor-Brewer football game.
HUDSON — Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Bean of Hudson were honored at the Kenduskeag Grange Hall on their 25th wedding anniversary.
The couple was presented a money tree by friends and relatives, and with chrysanthemums, a gift from Mystic Tie Grange. Mrs. Bean was given a corsage of pink shattered carnations and Mr. Bean, a boutonniere.
Mr. Bean has served for many years as first selectman for Hudson and Mrs. Bean as treasurer and tax collector and a member of the superintending school committee, of which she is now chairman.
Mr. Bean is also a councilman of Agway Corp. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bean have been Grange members for several years.
BANGOR — Leon Anderson, 2049 Essex St., Bangor, bagged a 10-point trophy while deer hunting at Greenbush. The deer weighed 208 after field dressing.
BANGOR — Richard Bean, owner of McQuik’s Oil Lube on Hogan Road in Bangor, and Wendy Mitchell, an employee, presented a donation of $8,500 to benefit children’s services at Eastern Maine medical Center. The donation was the result of a first anniversary celebration at McQuik’s. The fund-raising event marked the first community event of the 1990 EMMC Children’s Telethon. Accepting the check for the medical center were Robert H. Brandow, president, and Dr. James Hirschfeld, chief of EMMC pediatric services. Over the last two years coming, the community has pledged more than $130,000 to children’s services at EMMC through an annual telethon. The funds are earmarked for construction of a clinic for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
100 years ago — Nov. 13, 1914
BANGOR — Bangor Lodge, No. 791, Loyal Order of Moose, held a regular meeting with dictator Welch in the chair. There was a large class initiation. Approximately 75 applicants are now on the waiting list.
A Moose Smoker will take place in connection with a regular meeting and initiation of candidates. The night’s fun will start with a parade led by the justly celebrated Moose Bingville Band of 25 pieces.
Moving pictures of Moos heart, the big Moose home for the widows, orphans, aged and infirm members of the Moose order, will arrive here on Nov. 20.
BUCKSPORT — Mrs. Jerry Baldock, who is nicely settled in her new place of business on Main Street in the building opposite her former store, has put in a splendid line of human hair goods. Switches, as well as toupees and wigs, all of which goods she guarantees. She still carries toilet powders, creams and lotions, soap, American as well as imported perfumes. She also gives shampoos, manicuring, chiropody, and body as and facial massage.
BUCKSPORT — Warren P. Brown, who has been visiting his brother I.L. Brown for a short time, left on the boat for New Orleans, where he will join his life. They will then travel for several months visiting the west Indies. Mr. Brown was a former Bucksport boy, and has spent several years in Central America as representative of the United Fruit Company.
BANGOR — Many of the older residents of Bangor, after reading the announcement in the news of the bequest of $5,000 to the Bangor Public Library by the late Dr. George S. Lynde of New York, we call the fact that Dr. Lynde was a Bangor boy, the son of John H. Lynde, editor and proprietor of the Bangor Whig and Courier. On the death of his father, in 1847, Dr. Lynde, then a small boy, went to Skowhegan to live with Gen. Shepherd of the First Maine heavy artillery, a well-known Maine man. He afterward went to New York and later attended Exeter Academy and Yale University finally graduating at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The bequest to the Bangor Public Library and that to Bowdoin College were made as a memorial to his parents, John H. and Mary F. Lynde, and his brother Frank, a Bowdoin College man who died years ago. The Bangor Public Library bequest is for the purchase of books, but no restrictions are placed upon the trustees if they see fit to divert the fund for other purposes.
BREWER — The street department has about complete the season’s work upon the streets. The state road work was completed a few weeks ago while the weather conditions were so favorable. A new granite crosswalk has been placed on Wilson Street near Doyle and Carter’s store. An earth sidewalk is being made upon the northerly side of School Street. Previous to this time there has been no sidewalk on the street above the Cosgrove residence.
Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin