From our Files: Headlines from 100 years of local news.

Compiled by Karen Donato
Staff Writer

    Littleton — Mr. Owen McCarty carries the championship in potatoes; he has one that tips the scales at five pounds.
    Monticello — Mr. George Stackhouse, who has lived at the B&A Railroad Station the past four years, has moved his family to the village.
    Football — The Ricker Football team plays Patten Academy team on the Tenney Field Friday afternoon. Ricker defeated Patten early in the season and will try to turn the trick again.
    The paper — For some unaccountable reason one of our valued subscribers failed to get his Times and he writes that he wishes us to look it up, as he cannot get along without it.
    Family — Parker P. Burleigh came down from the lumbering operations at Eagle Lake Saturday and spent Sunday with his family.
    Musicians — Rose Donovan and Charles Davenport, members of Bryson’s Orchestra, went to Fort Kent Wednesday where they played for a dance given by some of the young people.

    Post Office — Drawings for the proposed new post office and courthouse building at Houlton are completed, the Treasury Department has announced and bids will be advertised before the end of October.
    Potatoes — 30,000 sacks of potatoes will be shipped from Houlton to Cuba from ports of Searsport, St. John and Boston.
    Monticello — Mr. and Mrs. Lee Forbes of Houlton have recently moved into their new home that they have built this summer on south Main Street. This house is one of the more attractive, modern homes of the village.
    Snow in October — The severe snowstorm of Oct. 12 will be a serious damage to farmers in this vicinity, many acres of potatoes are yet in the ground. The extra cost of harvesting a crop after a snowstorm will cut the actual return to a farmer for a barrel of potatoes at the present price to a very small amount and under the most favorable weather conditions. The farmer is feeling a hard situation.

    Oakfield — A cougar was spotted by Warden Virgil Grant on a back road to Oakfield in Linneus. It was approximately four feet long with a three-foot tail. It was spotted about 9 p.m. and bounded down the road in six leaps, similar to a deer’s jumps and then stopped and turned sideways before disappearing into the brush.
    Elected — Scott Brown, Esq. of Houlton has been elected to the American College of trial lawyers, one of three in the state.
    Littleton — Ground has been broken at Wiley Siding in Littleton for the first automated poultry house in Aroostook County by the Aroostook Poultry Farms, Inc. Heading the Littleton venture is Claude Hutchinson, Treston Bubar, Henry McBride and Warren Gentle. The other member of the firm is Bernard Hannigan.
    Polio — There has been 33 cases of polio reported in Aroostook County and four more suspected in Madawaska.
    Linneus — Friends were sorry to hear that one of the bus drivers was ill with the mumps last week.
    At the border — Canadians entering the United States on pleasure trips will no longer have to fill out automobile custom’s permits at the border. A Revenue Department spokesman said the permits have been abolished in a move to streamline and speed up operations at border-crossing points.
DIRIGO BOYS AND GIRLS STATE — Last year’s candidates for Boys and Girls State were guests of honor at a supper conducted by the Chester L. Briggs Post, American Legion and Auxiliary. From left in front are Herbert Rhoda, Fred Putnam, Charlene Wolhaupter, Karen Hannigan, Rachel Sylvester and Mary Barbara Lee. Standing, Robert Kirk, Thomas Schools, John Coffin, Steve Hall, Clem McGillicuddy, Carl Hutchinson and David Lawrence.

    Hospital rooms — Phil McCarthy, chairman of the Houlton Regional Hospital Board of Trustees has announced the approval of a $30 reduction in room rates. The lowered rates were achieved through “numerous cost efficiencies in fiscal 1984.” The room rate at HRH was $220 a day and has been reduced to $190 per day.
    Burger King — Emil Huck of Caribou, owner of Burger King Restaurants in Caribou and Presque Isle, announced this week that his new restaurant will open in Houlton by mid-December. It will employ 60 persons.
    New assistant minister — The Rev. James Flye has accepted the invitation of the Military Street Baptist Church to become its assistant minister. Rev. Flye is coming to Houlton from Barberton, Ohio.
    Hodgdon — Johnna Flemming led Hodgdon to a cross-country win. Other runners placing were, Tracy Williams, Ann Moody, Jane Caron and Claudia Ritch-Smith. They are coached by Rusty Taylor.