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. The PIHS team was somehow crippled […]
75 Years Ago, May 13, 1948 Colby Basketball Capt. To Coach at Houlton H.S. – Houlton High School is getting a new basketball coach next fall and one known throughout Maine and New England for years of star performance on the court with the baskets. He is Eugene A. “Gene” Hunter, Colby College captain of […]
50 Years Ago — May 24, 1973 Library telethon, a first for Van Buren — Dr. Philip Plourde and Robert Marquis anchored the live telecast soliciting funds for the Abel J. Morneault Memorial Library on a Monday evening in 1973. The telecast originated from the studios of CATV 5, located within the confines of the […]
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.
115 Years Ago – May 7, 1908 Moving from Washburn — H. B. Field of Washburn, was in Caribou Wednesday. Mr. Fields has purchased a place in Norridgewock and will move his family to that place Wednesday of next week. He is one of Washburn’s most substantial and reliable business men, and will be greatly […]
115 Years Ago – May 7, 1908 Moving from Washburn — H. B. Field of Washburn, was in Caribou Wednesday. Mr. Fields has purchased a place in Norridgewock and will move his family to that place Wednesday of next week. He is one of Washburn’s most substantial and reliable business men, and will be greatly […]
50 Years Ago — May 17, 1973 Mrs. Gardner was honored by SAD 10 — A special Mother’s Day program was held on May 11, 1973, at Allagash Consolidated School honoring the mothers of the students in grades K-8. The students presented a variety of songs, poems and several selections on the flute-a-phone. A corsage […]
75 Years Ago April 29, 1948 Potatoes Saved In Fire Damaging House $1200 – Fire at the Shaw potato house, CPR tracks, Saturday afternoon, caused estimated damage of $1,200 to the second floor, according to Chief Guy Smith of the Houlton fire Department.
115 Years Ago – Apr. 30, 1908 Making his home in Caribou — W. W. T. Pearson, who has been in Boston for the past three years, was in Caribou Monday on his way to New Sweden where he will reside in future. Returned from visit — Miss Bessie E. Lawson, stenographer in C. G. […]
100 Years Ago – May 3, 1923 High School prize essay contest — In the prize essay contest, conducted by the Merchants’ association of Presque Isle, in connection with which a prize was offered for the best essay on the advantages of trading at home, the following schools participated: Washburn High, Mapleton, Easton, Westfield, Presque […]
