115 Years Ago – Feb. 6, 1908
Returned from trip– Howard Fox returned Monday from a trip to New York, Buffalo, Montreal and other cities, having made the trip in the company of his brother.
75 Years Ago – February 5, 1948
72 Enlisted Here During Year 1947 – The Northern New England U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force Recruiting District, which includes the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, enlisted 3007 men during 1947, Sgt. Hugh M. Stearns of the Houlton recruiting station reports. Sgt. Stearns added that the figures recently released showed that the month of January was the most productive with 388 men signing up during that period.
100 Years Ago – Feb. 8, 1923
Special rates for Farmers’ Week — The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad granted an excursion rate of one and one-third regular fare for the round trip from all stations to Bangor or Old Town and return to those who attended Farmers’ Week lectures, demonstrations and meetings at the College of Agriculture, Orono.
50 Years Ago — February 8, 1973 New addition to Madawaska — Louis Cyr, Madawaska Town Manager, received the keys to the new ambulance from Sister Jeannine Daigle, Executive Director at People’s Benevolent Hospital. Present was Romeo Daigle, town councilman. 25 Years Ago — February 11, 1998 District awards outstanding farmer — The St. John […]
75 Years Ago – Jan. 29, 1948
Houlton girl wins spelling bee contest – One of Houlton’s entrants, Miss Byrna Mae Porter, high school sophomore, won top honors in the upper division of the Spelling Bee sponsored by the Houlton Pioneer Times and four other newspapers in Aroostook County, at the Caribou Winter Carnival Saturday.
115 Years Ago – Jan. 30, 1908
Retired — G. W. Irving has retired from the Caribou Water, Light & Power Company, his interests having been purchased by R. L. Gary and J. P. Donworth.
100 Years Ago – Feb. 1, 1923
Hon. A. R. Gould business trip — Hon. A. R. Gould arrived home from a business trip to Montreal, New York and Boston. His train was delayed about twelve hours by the big storm, the B. & A.. train which should have arrived Thursday night, being delayed until the next morning.
75 Years Ago, January 22, 1948
Garage Changes Hands – Cates Motor Mart, which has been under the management of Don Wilson for the past six years, changed hands last week and, effective February 1, will be taken over by a partnership made up of Cedric Benn and Warren Gentle
115 Years Ago – Jan. 23, 1908
New photographic studio opens — A. W. Plummer, the ‘ping pong man,’ who has opened a photographic studio in the Cary block, was employed as photographer by the Associated Press at the time of the San Francisco earthquake, and has many of the original pictures taken at that time.
50 Years Ago — Jan. 25, 1973 The trouble is not in your set — Another snag has been hit in the town of Madawaska’s continuing efforts to provide channels 2 and 7 for local television viewers. Apparently, there is a possibility that the Van Buren tower that would relay the signals to Madawaska’s tower […]
