100 Years Ago-Sept. 10, 1913
Aroostook Times
Rounded up — Deputies Everett, Burke and Good of Presque Isle, brought down to Houlton Monday afternoon 22 hoboes sentenced to from 25 to 30 days to serve their sentences in Houlton jail. They were met at the depot by Chief Whitney and Deputy Lawlis who assisted in escorting them to the jail.
Mexican-American conflict — It might take us five years to put down insurrection in Mexico. The United States regular army was inferior to Mexico’s in number at the beginning of the contest, but Uncle Sam got his fighting blood up in a hurry by calling for 50,000 volunteers and things began to move, as they would today if President Wilson finally decided to intervene.
75 Years Ago-Sept. 15, 1938
Houlton Pioneer Times
School enrollments up — A total of 1518 students registered in the Houlton schools on opening day, with a gain of 21 pupils in the elementary schools. Fair Street registered 293, Bowdoin Street with 210, Pleasant Street, 118 and Longfellow also 118, and Niles with 46. In the six-year High School there was a registration of 740 with the largest freshman class ever on the first day, 159 pupils.
Dance school to open — Miss Luanna Ellison of Sherman Mills will open a school of dancing here the first of October. Tap and ballroom dancing will be taught, class and private work to be accepted.
50 Years Ago-Sept. 12, 1963
Houlton Pioneer Times
Free lamburgers as 4H project — Between 850 and 900 lamburgers were distributed free to grocery shoppers in five Houlton stores Saturday afternoon by members and friends of the Junior Sheep Growers 4H Club, as they performed their community service project for the 1963 club year — all part of an effort to do something to get more people in the area to eat more lamb.
File photo 1963
GROCER AWARD — Gerald Riley, right, accepts a special award on behalf of the C&G Food Liner from Paul Gonya, meat supervisor for IGA in Aroostook County. The plaque was presented as a result of an annual campaign to clean up, paint up and fix up member stores.
Of local interest — Work seems to be progressing at the new dam on Hodgdon Mills; many interested people stop to watch the workmen. John Callnan has purchased Mrs. W. R. McCain’s farm in Ludlow and moved his family there. The new elementary and high school building of SAD 14, Danforth and Weston will be dedicated this Sunday afternoon.
25 Years Ago-Sept. 14, 1988
Houlton Pioneer Times
Sherman library opens new wing — The public is invited to an open house and dedication of a new wing at the Sherman Public Library in Sherman Mills on Sunday. The addition, the Bonner Children’s Room, has been donated by Esther Garnett Bonner of Los Angeles, Calif. in memory of her great-grandmother, Laura Jane Foster Gerry, who was known affectionately during the Civil War as Captain Gerry.
Low interest mortgages — The Maine State Housing Authority will provide $25 million in low interest rate mortgage loans to eligible working families buying their first homes in a new program that began Sept. 6, announced MSHA Director Elizabeth H. Mitchell. The program will provide $20 million in loans at 8.75 percent interest, and another $5 million at 6.75 percent in a special Home Start program directed at lower income buyers.
