115 Years Ago – Nov. 15, 1905
Railcars — Starting this week warm car service will be inaugurated from Boston to Aroostook County points on the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad for fruit shipments.
75 Years Ago – Nov. 15, 1945
Boy Scouts hold second annual meeting — The second annual meeting of Central District, Katahdin Area Council, Boy Scouts of America was held at the Northeastland Hotel in Presque Isle. A roast chicken dinner preceded the meeting and was served in the Banquet Hall. Reverend Nelson Canfield of Fort Fairfield presided as chairman.
100 Years Ago – Nov. 18, 1920
Unique recital given at high school auditorium pleases a large audience – – The recital given last Thursday Evening under the direction of the Astle Music Co. by a group of Edison Artists drew one of the largest audiences ever seen in the building.
100 Years Ago – Nov. 11, 1920
Fast horse — Millie Irwin, owned by George Osbourne of Limestone, is the fattest trotter now owned in Maine, with her record of 2:05 sweeping the board as far as the Pine Tree State is concerned. This horse is also the eighth trotter in the world this season. Her earnings so far are $7,780.
100 Years Ago – Nov. 10, 1920
Honored — A special service was given in honor of the Boy Scout troop of the church. The service was in commemoration of a heroic deed at Grand Lake. Last summer while the Boy Scouts were camping, Harry Manuel rescued the life of a drowning man.
75 Years Ago – Nov. 8, 1945
December potato prices steady — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that support prices on 1945 late-crop Irish potatoes did not increase for the remainder of the marketing season ending June 1946, over the support prices set for the month of December.
75 Years Ago – Nov. 1, 1945
Clarence Keegan new Aggie teacher — Clarence Keegan of Mars Hill succeeded George Barnes as agricultural instructor at Presque Isle High School
100 Years Ago – Nov. 3, 1920
Changing hands — The Snell House changed hands on Monday morning and is now being conducted by the Mercer Co.
115 Years Ago – Nov. 1, 1905
Sheriff — Charles Ross has received the appointment of Deputy Sheriff, taking the place of Deputy Sheriff W.H. Lafferty, who has resigned.
75 Years Ago – Oct. 25, 1945
Mapleton man enrolled at University in England — Sergeant Clifford H. Keirstead, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar R. Keirstead of Mapleton, and a former student of both the Universities of Maine and Maryland, enrolled at Shrivenham American University in England where the second two-month term opened Oct. 8 with an enrollment of more than 3,000 students.
