Headlines from 100 years of local news.
100 Years Ago – Sept. 13, 1916
New position — Miss Eileen Dow has resigned her position at Woolworth’s to accept a position at the Robinson Grocery Co., where she will have charge of the soda fountain.
Visit home — Mr Lowell Van Allen, a former resident of Houlton and Monticello and who is now a prominent potato buyer in Augusta, has been a recent visitor in Houlton.
75 Years Ago – Sept. 11, 1941
Accepts position — Miss Viola Carr has accepted a position as regular teacher in the Rideout School in Ludlow and supervisor of music in the schools of Ludlow. Miss Carr, who was teacher of the Oxford Piano Course in the Houlton schools and also taught private pupils, has given up this work for her present position.
Local student — Julian Woodworth, Littleton resident and a Ricker graduate, is working for the summer at the Henry Ford Trade School, one of the nation’s foremost industrial training centers. Woodworth will resume his course at Bowdoin College at the beginning of the fall semester.
50 Years Ago – Sept. 14, 1966
New Barbershop — Lou Weatherbee has opened the new Temple Barber Shop in the Masonic Building in Market Square, next to the Temple Theatre. Mr. Weatherbee has barbered with Roger Lee in Houlton, and for the past two summers has been barbering in Bar Harbor. This past winter he was in the college shop at the University of Maine, and has also barbered for four months at Loring Air Force Base.
Outstanding performance — Miss Alice P. Blanchard, a former Houlton teacher, was congratulated by Col. Kenneth B. Cooper, chief, Army Engineer Reactors Group, who presented her with a Department of the Army certificate for “Outstanding” performance of her duties as a technical writer in the Training Department at the Nuclear Power Field Office, Fort Belvoir.
25 Years Ago – Sept. 11, 1991
Service award — Sharon Delong, immigration inspector at Houlton Port of Entry, was presented a certificate of award by Bertram Magnus, area port director for U.S. Customs, in recognition and appreciation for noteworthy contribution to the effective and efficient operation of the U. S. Customs Service.
Quilt winner — Winner of the applique quilted design created by the Friends and Needles Quilters was Sandra Cummings of Houlton. Her name was drawn at the quilt show by Arlene Dickison during Potato Feast Days in Houlton at Watson Hall.
