75 Years Ago – Feb. 8, 1945
New youth organization formed in Presque Isle — The local council of the Knights of Columbus, under the direction of E. A. Gagnon, Grand Knight and State Committeeman, sponsored the Father James A. Hayes Circle of the Columbian Squires.
100 Years Ago – Feb. 11, 1920
Returned home — Harold L. Cates has returned home from a two weeks trip to Boston and New York during which time he attended a get-together meeting of the Willard Storage Battery Company.
115 Years Ago – Feb. 8, 1905
Telephone lines — W.H. Thomas has had his potato house at Ogren Siding connected with telephone lines.
100 Years Ago – Feb. 4, 1920
Congratulations — At the meetings of the directors of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad and of the Northern Telegraph Co., which were held Friday at the B. & A. offices, the resignation of C.J. Ham, who has been corporate auditor, was accepted and E.C. Alexander, heretofore statistician for the Bangor & Aroostook, was appointed to fill the vacancy for the both companies.
115 Years Ago – Feb. 1, 1905
Trains — The train service was badly delayed last week on account of the storm. All B & A trains were waiting in Bangor for the arrival of western trains. The mail due here at eleven in the morning did not arrive until about eight o’clock that night.
75 Years Ago – Feb. 1, 1945
Harold Bryant named to National Post — H. E. Bryant, General Manager of Maine Potato Growers, Inc., was nationally recognized as a leader in the potato industry when he was elected to membership on the Advisory Board of the National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association at the Annual Meeting of that Association in Chicago.
The citizens of several towns between Houlton and Presque Isle have petitioned the legislature for an adjustment of telegraph rates.
The following registrants were inducted through Local Board No. 2 Aroostook, during the previous week: Caribou – Raymond L. Newbegin, Joseph R. Byram and Aurelle J. Belanger; Fort Fairfield – Freeman D. Kennedy, Ronald J. Webb and Roy H. Tompkins; Presque Isle – Albert Jackson; Washburn – Philip L. Belmain; Ashland – John J. Prue Jr. and Simon Michaud; and Limestone – Earl P. Robideau.
Andrew J. Saunders and Geo. H. Benn, president of the Houlton Park Association, left Tuesday for Bangor to attend a meeting of Maine Fair interests to make details for the Fairs this coming season.
Wildcats defeat Houlton, Caribou — The Presque Isle Wildcats defeated Houlton 32 to 28 at Houlton in the opening game of the Aroostook League.
