(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)

10 years ago – Sept. 27, 1997

BANGOR – Air National Guard officials participated in a one-day stand-down ordered nationwide by U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen. He ordered the grounding of training flights after a spate of military plane crashes raised safety concerns.

Lt. Col. William Beutel, base spokesman, said that 50 to 80 full-time personnel at the 101st Air Refueling Wing in Bangor – pilots, maintenance workers and others – were reviewing safety procedures and discussing ways to improve air-safety techniques.

One operational mission, however, was carried out because it was deemed necessary. It involved sending a KC-135 tanker to Virginia to pick up “certain people” who then will be flown back to Bangor and eventually to Israel, said the spokesman.

25 years ago – Sept. 27, 1982

BANGOR – Mittie E. Lee of Bangor celebrated her 90th birthday with an open house. Mrs. Lee was born in Clifton on Sept. 9, 1882. She was married to the late Charles P. Lee for 54 years and has six children, 24 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. She is a member of the Forest Avenue Congregational Church and the 14th Street Senior Citizens.

50 years ago – Sept. 27, 1957

HAMPDEN – Members of Queen City Post 194 American Legion voted to award a medal and citation for heroism to Mrs. Marjorie Edgecomb of Hampden. She saved the lives of two men from drowning by her heroic action in two separate instances this past summer.

100 years ago – Sept. 27, 1907

EAST ORRINGTON – Geroge McKay marketed a fine hog. It weighed nearly 400 lbs. This is his first attempt at hog raising.

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ORONO – During the last year one of the most popular courses offered by the college of agriculture at the University of Maine was the correspondence and lecture course. This year it is planned to cover a great deal more ground and professor J.E. McClintock has been engaged to have full charge of this department, which will be known as the department of agriculture extension work and divided as follows: the correspondence course, the lecture course and the demonstration work.

The object of the correspondence course is to assist farmers and help them solve the various problems which country life presents. This course covers every phase of rural life such as farm crops and crop production, dairying, poultry, home economics, etc.

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DEDHAM – Milton Blood has engaged to drive a team for H.P. Burrill during the winter. John Basler of Clifton is at work in the shingle mill for H.P. Burrill.

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HAMPDEN CORNER – Leander Perkins has bought the late Lemuel Stubbs place and will move there very soon.

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BANGOR – Rabbi Max Klachken, the recently appointed rabbi of the Congregation of Beth Israel on Center Street, is making a very good impression with his parishioners and the consensus of opinion is that a better rabbi could not have been selected.

Klachken is a man of quiet disposition, pleasing appearance and courteous manners. He is an eloquent speaker and has all the qualities necessary for the makeup of a successful pastor. That his synagogue here will be filled weekly with worshippers there is no doubt, and his congregation should advance still further under his leadership.

For three years, Klachken had been in Altoona, Pa., where he arrived from Russia. Upon recommendation of Chief Rabbi Margolis, he came to Bangor to speak upon trial, Rabbi Lewis Seltzer having gone to Patterson, N.J. Klachken spoke at the feast of Rosh Hashanah and was elected rabbi of the synagogue.

He assumed his duties on the festival of Yom Kippur. The new rabbi, who is about 40 years of age, has a wife and four children in Russia. He has sent for them and they are expected to arrive in Bangor very soon. The annual election of the Congregation of Beth Israel will be held next Sunday afternoon, President Max Cohen presiding. Klachken will be present.

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WEST WINTERPORT – The carpenters and masons are rushing work on the Grange hall, hoping to see its completion before the cold weather.

A large amount of grain was damaged during the recent heavy rain storm. A large percentage of it will be a total loss.

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OLD TOWN – Sept. 26 was no jonah day for Old Town judging by the success of that day’s celebration. Every train and car into the city brought its quota of pleasure-seekers and the main streets of the town were a solid mass of seething, laughing, happy people. All day, from early morning till late at night, the streets were dense with people and all seemed to enjoy themselves greatly. The feature of the day was the big parade of firemen from all the surrounding towns.

The parade was led by O.B. Fernandez of the Old Town Fire Department and a delegation of his men. Next in line came the Old Town Military Band.

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BREWER – The Brewer firemen, resplendent in new uniforms, made an appreciable addition to the Old Town parade.

Mrs. C. F. Trask left for Portland where she is to join Captain Trask upon the arrival of his schooner, the Horace A. Stone, laden with coal from Philadelphia.

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin