100 Years Ago-June 4, 1913
Aroostook Times
Grape Nuts for body and brain — The advertisement features a saucer of Grape-Nuts, a breakfast served directly from the package with cream for the morning meal is a good start for the day. “It is easily digested, and full of rich, well-balanced nourishment for body and brain. Sold by Grocers everywhere.”
Road rage — It has been many years since the roads in Aroostook County have been as bad as this season, and as for the roads out of Houlton. Well! Taken as a whole they could not be any worse! The North road from Maple Street to Washburn Street is unpassable! The Foxcroft road is still rough, and the Calais road will be rough until the State road is built.
75 Years Ago-June 9, 1938
Houlton Pioneer Times
Correct corsetry — Miss Alma Eberhardt, adviser to women on problems of correct corsetry will be at the J. C. Penney Company store on Market Square Friday of next week and will speak at 2:30 p.m. on modern corsetry and fitting problems.
Following the fire — Following the fire that destroyed eight potato houses and the B & A Station in Monticello last week, the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company has a steel crew working on the twisted tracks and a carpenter crew clearing away the debris, preparatory to building a new modern station building.
50 Years Ago-June 6, 1963
Houlton Pioneer Times
File photo 1963
DYNAMENE SLEEPS in her husband’s tomb in Christopher Fry’s “A Pheonix Too Frequent” scheduled to be staged at Ricker Friday and Saturday. Dynamene (reclining) is Barbara Ann Reed of Houlton. Her servant, portrayed by Ann Beaulieu of Houlton, assists her in her mourning.
Church delegates head to NYC — Theodore Georgilakis of Pierce Street is a minister on the move. He will lead a delegation of 18 members of the Houlton congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses to an international convention of the group in Yankee Stadium in New York, July 7-14.
Spruce budworm spraying continues — The stage is set in Aroostook to begin control operations against an insect pest threatening more than $25 million worth of spruce and fir timber and natural resource values. Control will be carried out along the same lines as previously successful budworm projects in 1958, 1960 and 1961. Using aircraft, insecticide will be applied on the infected area at the rate of one pound of DDT in solution per acre.
25 Years Ago-June 8 1988
Houlton Pioneer Times
Open “after five” — More than 20 businesses in downtown Houlton have officially begun new extended hours — after 5 p.m. — this week with a grand opening celebration. WHOU Radio is doing live remotes from different businesses each day this week from 5 – 6 p.m. The new hours are intended to be an ongoing policy, instituted in an effort to make shopping more convenient.
Ketch is chamber director — Nancy Ketch, marketing director in Houlton, will be assuming the position of executive director at the Houlton Chamber of Commerce late this summer. She will be replacing Thelma Smith who will be leaving the area with her husband, Bob, who plans to enter Bangor Theological Seminary in the fall semester.
