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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.

Houlton area From our Files – Week of March 22, 2023

75 Years Ago - March 18, 1948 Peabody Is Named Council Chairman – Arnold Peabody was named chairman of the HOulton Town Council at the organization meeting held following the town meeting Tuesday after the new members were sworn in.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of March 22, 2023

115 Years Ago - Mar. 19, 1908 Growing in size -- The enlargement of the cloak department in Pattee & Co.’s dry goods store makes an improvement of a very noticeable nature, giving this large firm a much better, more desirable and lighter place to display the large line of cloaks carried. The room has been fitted up in a very handsome and convenient manner.

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

Houlton area From our Files – Week of March 15, 2023

75 Years Ago — March 11, 1948 Elks Women Bowlers In Win Over Caribou Six – In a five-string match here Saturday afternoon between the women howlers of the Houlton Lodge of Elks and a team from Caribou known as the Elite Six, the hostesses turned back the visitors by a margin of 131 pins, the outcome being determined not on points but on total pinfall.

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.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of March 15, 2023

115 Years Ago - Mar. 12, 1908 New occupants -- The store recently occupied by Miss Evelyn Smith as a millinery store next door to the post office is being remodeled and will be occupied some time next month by the American Express Company.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of March 8, 2023

115 Years Ago - March 5, 1908 Repairs being made -- C. H. Merrill has been making repairs on the ever-popular Vaughan House, repainting the dining room, and repapering and painting the rooms on the upper stories. The work is under the supervision of W. W. Gatherer.

Houlton area From our Files – Week of March 8, 2023

75 Years Ago, March 4, 1948 Pierson Is Named As Exalted Ruler – Earl Pierson was nominated for exalted ruler of the Houlton Lodge of Elks at a meeting held Tuesday night. He was named to succeed Thomas C. Vose who has served the lodge for the past year.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of March 8, 2023

100 Years Ago - March 8, 1923 Potato market — he potato market was a little more accurate and prices were distinctly better. $1.50 was the rule in price in Presque Isle, with few moving from farmers’ hands to shipping points. One of the prominent buyers told the Star-Herald reporter that in his opinion, the supply of Mountains was running low.

Presque Isle area From our Files – Week of March 1, 2023

100 Years Ago - March 1, 1923 County over the top — Cooperative marketing landed safely with a margin of some thousands to spare. Figures compiled by H. F. McGlauflin, Secretary of the local Cooperative Marketing Campaign Committee, showed the aggregate of signers in the County to be a fraction over 54,000. Presque Isle at the time of writing was credited with 4033 acres.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of March 1, 2023

115 Years Ago - Feb. 27, 1908 Returned from extended trip -- Mr. and Mrs. C. Powers returned last week from an extended trip to Wisconsin, Minnesota and other western states. Mr. Powers reports but very little snow in that section, and states that wheels were in use in nearly every place he was in.

Houlton area From our Files – Week of March 1, 2023

75 Years Ago, February 26, 1948 Singer Sewing Machine Co. To Open New Store – The Singer Sewing Machine Company will return to Houlton after an absence of several years when they open their new modern store in the Putnam-Ervin block about March 15. It will be the company’s headquarters in Northern Maine.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of February 22, 2023

115 Years Ago - Feb. 20, 1908 Returned from Boston -- H. H. Whitney, who has recently returned from Boston where he graduated from the Barnes’ Embalming School, has had the room on the west of his furniture store fitted for a casket room and has stocked it up with a good line of caskets.

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

100 Years Ago - Feb. 22, 1923 Mr. Hews on a business trip — Mr. Ray Hews, one of the most progressive and enterprising young farmers of the County, returned Saturday from Piscataquis and Penobscot Counties, where he figured actively in several very enthusiastic co-operative meetings.

Houlton area From our Files – Week of February 22, 2023

75 Years Ago Feb. 19, 1948 Houlton Man Leads Maine N.Y. Life Agents in ‘47 – Charles W. Harmon of Houlton, Maine, a representative of the New York Life Insurance Company, in 1947 for the third successive year led all agents of the company in the number of new applications for life insurance. It has been announced by Dudley Dowell, vice-president of the company.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of February 15, 2023

115 Years Ago - Feb. 13, 1908 Trip to Boston and New York -- Ray N. L. Brown started Tuesday morning for Boston and New York where he will visit the markets for the purpose of selecting a spring and summer stock of goods for A. V. Goud & Co.’s dry goods store.

Houlton area From our Files – Week of February 15, 2023

75 Years Ago - Feb. 12, 1948 Ricker Wins And Loses Down State – Winning one and losing one was the story of the Ricker Junior College basketeers over the weekend. A pair of teams from Central Maine, M. C. I. at Pittsfield and the Cold Frosh at Waterville played hosts to the Aroostook Club.

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