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Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of May 24, 2023

100 Years Ago - May 24, 1923 New sidewalk — Road Commissioner A. O. Green planned a new gravel sidewalk to take the place of the old plank sidewalk between Blaine and Mars Hill. The old sidewalk was in bad condition and was really dangerous, so a new sidewalk was much needed.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of May 17, 2023

100 Years Ago - May 17, 1923 Presque Isle High School defeated A. C. I. — Presque Isle High School defeated A. C. I. in a one-sided game by a score of 2403. The A. C. I. team was composed of green men, which accounted for the one-sided score.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of May 10, 2023

100 Years Ago - May 10, 1923 Report showed 100,000 farmers co-operating — Approximately 100,000 farmers were marketing through eight producer controlled cooperative commission firms, selling cattle, hogs and sheep at the rate of $100,000,000 annually, according to John G. Brown, president of the National Livestock Producers’ Association.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of April 26, 2023

75 Years Ago - April 22, 1948 Conference speaker — Alan C. Lloyd, managing editor of Business Education World, and assistant editor for the Gregg Publishing Co., was one of the speakers at the Northern Maine Career Conference for high school seniors, speaking before the students interested in business training.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of April 19, 2023

100 Years Ago - April 19, 1923 Contestants for the most popular teacher — Two of the Presque Isle teachers, Miss Flora Brooks of Ashland, Principal of the Gouldville School, and Miss Adah Savage, a member of the staff of that school, were among the contestants in the Bangor News Contest for the most popular teacher.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of April 12, 2023

100 Years Ago - April 12, 1923 Potato shipments were heavy during March — With the single exception of the previous season, March was the heaviest in the shipment of Aroostook potatoes during the previous ten years, it was announced at the local Bangor & Aroostook office.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of April 5, 2023

100 Years Ago - April 5, 1923 Presque Isle High School debating team — The debating team of Presque Isle High School composed of Clifton Williams, Jack Mooney, Philip Annas and Everett Larrabee, with Miss Cooper as coach, started Thursday morning for Lewiston to participate in the BAtes semifinals and finals Friday and Saturday.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of March 22, 2023

100 Years Ago - March 29, 1923 Prominent as basketball player — Louis Horsman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norval Horsman, Academy Street, was a Presque Isle boy who was doing good in school life, and of whom his parents had reason to be proud. Louis was a graduate of the Presque Isle High School, class of 1920.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of March 22, 2023

100 Years Ago - March 22, 1923 Book by former Aroostook resident — The Star-Herald was in receipt of a copy of “Flashes of Thought”, a book of witty and humorous short stories and worthwhile selection, compiled and published by Alfred W. Hall, Portland, Maine, a former resident of Caribou

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of March 15, 2023

100 Years Ago - March 15, 1923 Station agent on B. & A. became an inventor — N. A. Robertson, formerly a resident of Marysville, N.B., a station agent of the B. & A. Railroad at Oakland, became an inventor.

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