50 Years Ago — April 5, 1973 Desjardins makes third trip — Roland Desjardins was presented a check from Claude Viel, president of Local 247, International Brotherhood of Papermakers. Desjardins of Madawaska, will be making his third trip to the 10th annual Charles H. Milan Sr. Memorial Sweepstakes at the Bangor-Brewer Bowling lanes. Desjardins captured […]
75 Years Ago, April 1, 1948 National Guard Open House On Army Day – Battery B, 152nd F.A. Bn. Maine National Guard will hold an Open House in its Armory at the Houlton Municipal Airport April 6 in observance of Army Day, it was reported by Sgt. Hugh Stearns of the U.S. Army and U. […]
75 Years Ago, April 1, 1948
National Guard Open House On Army Day – Battery B, 152nd F.A. Bn. Maine National Guard will hold an Open House in its Armory at the Houlton Municipal Airport April 6 in observance of Army Day, it was reported by Sgt. Hugh Stearns of the U.S. Army and U. S. Air Force Recruiting Station.
115 Years Ago – April 2, 1908 Replies to the question — A New York newspaper has been printing a series of replies to the question: ‘How can a family of three live comfortably on $2000 a year.’ The editor of the Biddeford Journal feelingly retorts that up here in Maine almost any of us […]
115 Years Ago – April 2, 1908
Replies to the question — A New York newspaper has been printing a series of replies to the question: ‘How can a family of three live comfortably on $2000 a year.’ The editor of the Biddeford Journal feelingly retorts that up here in Maine almost any of us would be willing to undertake the experiment without preliminary instructions.
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.
75 Years Ago — March 25, 1948
Hoop Tournament To Last Four Days – The Gold Medal Basketball Tournament, sponsored and directed by the Houlton Recreation Department, offers four evenings of basketball entertainment to the local fans, starting April 12.
115 Years Ago – Mar. 26 1908
Gone to Fort Kent for business — Lewis Washburn went to Fort Kent Monday in the interests of B. D. McLellan’s gasoline engine business.
In session — The National Horseshoers Protective Association is in session today in Caribou. Delegates from nearly every town in Northern Aroostook are in attendance.
50 Years Ago — March 22, 1973 About news reporting — Beurmond Banville, newspaper reporter and St. John Valley bureau chief for the Bangor Daily News, spoke to Mrs. Theresa Dumond’s fifth-grade reading class on news reporting at Fort Kent Elementary School, in March of 1973. Banville outlined the job of a news reporter in […]
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.
