100 Years Ago – Dec. 4, 1924
Sharing entertainment with friends — Harold Brown was calling on friends in Woodland Sunday. He has purchased a graphophone and will give entertainment at his home.
25 Years Ago — December 8, 1999
Looking up – The landscape of downtown Madawaska was changed last week in December of 1999, with the final installation of the 100-foot tall windmill on Larry Beaulieu’s lot on Main Street.
50 Years Ago – December 4, 1974
Oldest Resident Honored — Mrs. Mary Sullivan is presented the Boston Post gold headed cane by Town Council Chairman Robert Anderson. The cane has been in Houlton for many years and is awarded to the oldest citizen.
A Winter Storm Warning issued by the National Weather Service in Caribou is in effect from Wednesday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m., until Friday, Dec. 6, 1 a.m.
99 Years Ago – November 26, 1925
Timberland in Eastern Maine 5 cents an acre — ‘Going—Going—Gone! This tract of timberland in eastern Maine was sold for five cents an acre. It had been fifty years, on October 28, 1875, that more than 12,657 acres of state lands were sold at auction at City Hall, Bangor, with the firm of Pearl & Webb conducting the sale
75 Years Ago – Dec. 1, 1949
A special bonus given — The board of directors of the J.C. Penney Company has authorized a special payment of an amount equal to two weeks’ pay for all full-time associates who have been employed for the full year of 1949 and on a proportionate basis for extra and part-time associates and for those employed less than a year.
10 Years Ago — November 26, 2014
On the road again — Despite the loss of a 12,000-square-foot repair shop and 11 trucks to an early morning fire on Saturday in November of 2014, the R.F. Chamberland, Inc. transportation company had trucks and drivers back on the roads just two days later.
50 Years Ago – November 27, 1974
Area Is Hit By Raging Snowstorm — A blistering Northeaster, which at 1 p.m. Tuesday had dropped 15.3 inches of snow on Houlton in a little more than 12 hours, and continued to rage Tuesday night with as much as 25 inches of new snow expected before the storm was due to taper off in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The Fort Kent Knights of Columbus have announced the winner of their ongoing lotto fundraiser for the previous week.
The November Healthy Aging Luncheon sponsored by Northern Light A.R. Gould Hospital and Cary Medical Center was held at the State Road Advent Christian Church in Mapleton.
