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Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of January 26, 2022

75 Years Ago - Jan. 23, 1947 Sidney Cook elected president of athletic group — Sidney Cook was elected president of the newly organized Presque Isle Athletic Association at a meeting of the directors. Other officers named were vice president, Gustave Johnson; secretary, Wilfred Trafton; treasurer, Robert Andrews.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of January 19, 2022

75 Years Ago - Jan. 16, 1947 Edwin Smith elected to head Presque Isle Fish-Game Group — Officers were elected, drew up bylaws and nominated a board of directors, when more than 50 sportsmen met at the Mooseleuk Club rooms to organize a new Presque Isle fish and game club.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of January 12, 2022

75 Years Ago - Jan. 9, 1947 Smith was elected to head of Masonic Lodge -- A. Ernest Smith was elected worshipful master of Trinity lodge, F. and A.M., at the annual communication at the Masonic Temple.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of January 5, 2022

75 Years Ago - Jan. 2, 1947 Named to the State PMA Committee -- Appointment of Harry E. Umphrey of Presque Isle to the Main State Committee of the Production and Marketing Administration by Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson had been announced by Fred J. Nutter, state director of PMA.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of December 29, 2021

75 Years Ago - Dec. 26, 1946 New “Y” Secretary in Northern Maine -- State YMCA Secretary Chester A. Baker announced that Morrill Walker Paine of Troy, New York, accepted the position of associate secretary of the State YMCA to be in charge of the Northeast District YMCA, which included all of Aroostook County and the northern parts of Penobscot and Washington counties.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of December 22, 2021

75 Years Ago - Dec. 19, 1946 Pritham named Presque Isle Water and Sewer Districts superintendent -- Carroll D. Pritham, of Presque Isle, began his new duties as superintendent of the Presque Isle Water and Sewer Districts. Mr. Pritham gave his notice as electrical engineer with the Maine Public Service Co.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of December 15, 2021

75 Years Ago - Dec. 12, 1946 Eva Zippel elected head of Aroostook Teachers’ Association -- Mrs. Eva Zippel, principal of the Presque Isle Training School, was elected president of the Aroostook County Teachers’ Association, and Presque Isle was selected as the site of the county convention for an indefinite term of years, at the annual meeting of the association held at the high school.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of December 1, 2021

75 Years Ago - Nov. 28, 1946 The War Assets office opened in Maine -- The War Assets Administration opened an office for the distribution of war surplus in the state of Maine.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of November 20, 2021

75 Years Ago - Nov.. 21, 1946 Carleton Kilpatrick was named to the General Senate at U. of M. -- P. Carleton Kilpatrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Kilpatrick of Presque Isle and a member of the Men’s Senate at the University of Maine, was named as a representative to the General Senate.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of November 10, 2021

75 Years Ago - Nov. 7, 1946 Auxiliary Bishop Feeney in official visit -- The Most Reverend Daniel J. Feeney, D.D., auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maine and for 16 years parish priest at St. Mary’s Church in Presque Isle, celebrated a Pontifical Mass Sunday on the occasion of his first visit at St. Mary’s since his elevation to the Episcopacy Sept. 12.

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