100 Years Ago-Aug 13, 1913
Aroostook Times
Houlton business news — John F. Law who has been in several Massachusetts cities returned home Monday and says that Houlton is about as up to date as any of the places that he has visited and he has decided to remain in Houlton where he will open a Shoe store as soon as a desirable location can be found.
Women smugglers apprehended — Deputy U. S. Marshall Buzzell was in town Friday, and took back with him to Bangor two women prisoners, Edith Williams and Sarah Curtis, who were captured by Dep. Coll. Dudley, Dep. Smart and Chief Whitney last Wednesday night returning from the Line with an amount of intoxicants.
75 Years Ago-Aug. 18, 1938
Houlton Pioneer Times
History of milk — Alan Clark, proprietor of the new Houlton Farms Dairy, was the speaker at the bi-monthly meeting of the Houlton Lions Club held Friday at the Houlton Country Club. Mr. Clark spoke on the subject of pasteurization and also on the general history of milk going back 10,000 years. Pasteurized milk, he said, is new to Aroostook County but not new elsewhere.
File photo 1938
CAMPAIGN AD — Lee C. Good was the Republican candidate for the Maine Legislature representing Mars Hill, Blaine, Bridgewater, Monticello and E. Plantation.
New club blooms in Bridgewater — On Thursday, a group of flower-minded women met at the home of Miss Annie Rideout and organized the Bridgewater Garden Club. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Clara Hartley, when the roll call is to be answered by “New Annuals I have Grown This Year.”
50 Years Ago-Aug. 15, 1963
Houlton Pioneer Times
Made in Maine local merchants — Shoppers in Houlton this week (at August Dollar Days) will find a display of Maine products in Watson’s windows, Dunn Furniture will display a Beals maple bedroom set made in Portland, Ward Cabin Co. has a model of a log cabin home made in Houlton, A. H. Fogg will feature hardware made throughout Maine, Allied Chemical Coating Inc. offers for display Houlton-made shoes, Main Street Market will exhibit Maine grocery products including lobster, Houlton Dairy Farms features their local products and King Cole Potato Chips has loaned a display of all their potato chip products made in Bangor.
Town Council news — Requests for a wider curbing on Court Street south of the Post Office and for a general cleaning up of Garrison Hill were made Monday during the regular Town Council meeting. In other business, the council approved a report to be sent to the State Department of Agriculture on the current dog census: 220 male dogs, 135 female and 14 spayed dogs in Houlton.
25 Years Ago-Aug. 18, 1988
Houlton Pioneer Times
Youth take to the sea — Several area youth recently had the opportunity to participate in a three-day voyage the Harvey Gamage, a 95-foot schooner out of Boston. “A Maine Adventure at Sea” was sponsored by the 4-H program of the Cooperative Extension Service and took 26 high school students from Bar Harbor to Portland. County participants included Carmen Belyea of Hodgdon, Jeremy Wittine of Houlton, Ashley Skinner of Island Falls and Amy Lord of Patten.
New veterans’ memorial — A 14-foot high granite obelisk honoring Houlton’s war dead will be placed in the southwest corner of Monument Park, according to Gary Edwards, superintendent of Parks and Recreation for the Shiretown. The memorial, consisting of a four-foot by four-foot base, a two-foot by two-foot “black armband of mourning,” and an eight-foot high crowning obelisk, will cost taxpayers $14,900. Voters approved the expenditure of up to $15,000 for a monument honoring those killed in action during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
