100 Years Ago – Oct. 6, 1921
New nurse in training – – Miss Faye Mackay, who has for some time been employed as bookkeeper in the dental offices of Bridgham & Barton, left Sunday for Portland where she is set to enter the St. Barnabas Hospital to train as a nurse.
100 Years Ago – Sept. 28, 1921
Legal matters — Harry Excel of Jersey City, New Jersey, representing Manufacturers Liability Insurance, is in town on a legal matter with Charles P. Barnes of Houlton and Cyrus Small of New Sweden.
75 Years Ago – Sept. 26, 1946
Special agent in Aroostook County — Wilfred Trafton, president of the Northern Aroostook Baseball League, was appointed special agent in Aroostook County for the Berkshire Life Insurance Co. He planned to set up his office in Presque Isle.
100 Years Ago – Sept. 28, 1921
One heavy door — The placing in position of the door of a vault in the remodeled rooms of the Caribou National Bank during the past week has attracted a lot of attention. The door weighs 8 tons.
100 Years Ago – Sept. 22, 1921
Hospital campaign — Caribou will soon begin a great campaign to secure $50,000 for the Cary Hospital, for which the late Dr. Jefferson Cary left $118,000.
75 Years Ago – Sept. 19, 1946
Former Presque Isle priest became the first native Maine Bishop — Father Daniel J. Feeney, who was pastor of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin at Presque Isle, was consecrated auxiliary Bishop of Portland.
100 Years Ago – Sept. 22, 1921
Seventy-fourth year at Ricker — The Ricker Classical Institute began last week its 74th year as one of the most successful schools in the state of Maine.
100 Years Ago – Sept. 15, 1921
Betty Hume’s recital — On Tuesday evening, Sept. 8, Miss Betty Hume gave a most delightful recital at the Temple Theater, her class of 20 pupils assisting her.
75 Years Ago – Sept. 12, 1946
County’s income showed increase — Aroostook County farm families, in 1945, produced crops and livestocks with the record value of more than $50,993,000, as reported by the Bureau of Census, more than doubling their annual gross income in comparison with 1940.
115 Years Ago – Sept. 11, 1906
Buys a winning horse — Jeff Bradbury has purchased from Milton Lufkin the yearling filly Airline by Lord Arleigh, which won a blue ribbon at the Northern Maine Fair.
