100 Years Ago – Aug. 18, 1915
Personal Liberty — If the town goes “dry,” buy a gallon of your favorite brand and turn it over to your wife. Do all your drinking at home. Every time you take a drink pay your wife 15 cents. When the first gallon is gone your wife will have $7 to put in the bank and $2 to buy a new supply, each gallon averaging 60 drinks. In 10 years at your present rate you will be dead and your wife will have enough money to go out and marry a decent man.
Aroostook Anti-Tuberculosis Association — A meeting will be held in the Masonic Club rooms for the purpose of reviewing the work of the last year, for making plans for the coming year, and for the transaction of any other business that may properly come before the meeting. Hon. T. H. Phair of Presque Isle, president of the association, will preside, and an account of the work of the past year will be given by Miss Edith F. Knight, county nurse.
75 Years Ago – Aug. 18, 1940
Construction on a 24-hour schedule— Construction work on the new Houlton Municipal Airport is now on a 24-hour schedule. Town Manager W.E. Brackett announced this morning. Floodlights have been installed at the end of the North-South runway, where work is progressing, and all-night operation began Tuesday night.
Rotarians and Wives Hear First-Hand account of Nazi Invasion— The Nazi invasion of France and the attendant horrors of war and suffering of refugees was interestingly recounted by Mrs. Harold Shulman at a ladies night meeting of the Houlton Rotary Club Monday evening at the country club. Mrs. Shulman was a resident of France for the past 12 years and who left Paris only when the German troops were within 25 miles of the gates of the city.
50 Years Ago – Aug. 18, 1965
Ready For Pupils Tuesday — Houlton’s new junior-senior high school will be ready, as will all other facilities in School Administrative District 29, when classes are opened for the 1965-66 school year on Tuesday. Expect 2,447 students.
Aroostook traffic deaths up— Automobile traffic death are up this year to 16 already. Last year, there were 12 reported traffic deaths, 17 in 1963.
25 Years Ago – Aug. 18, 1990
Computerized writing center — To prepare today’s children into the new age of computers, Houlton High School will begin its second year of instruction in its computer room/writing center. Good lighting, updated equipment, space and comfort were the key techniques used to provide a modern and effective computer room/writing center. In its first year, the feedback was very positive.
File photo 1990
IVEY’S TYKES — Playing for Dale Ivey’s team in the Houlton Recreation Department T-ball program are, from left, front row: D.J. McNally, Justin Henderson, Jesse Henderson and Bobby Wright. Back row: Cindy Hughes, Kevin Sanford, Matt Hughes, Ben Ivey, Mike Fraser and Ben Saunders.
New sub business — The Pizza Pot has recently opened at 47 Smyrna Street. The shop features pizza, subs, sandwiches, salads, chips and drinks to go. Store hours are Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday/Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
