Headlines from 100 years of local news.
100 Years Ago – Oct. 4, 1916
Training — Miss Burns, chief operator, and Mrs. Sadie Crockett, superintendent of the operating room of the local office of Aroostook Tel. & Tel. Co., left Monday for Bangor, where they will spend a week in the office there, familiarizing themselves with the system soon to be inaugurated in this office.
Home on furlough — Sergeant Geo. Seamons, Co. L, Second Maine Infantry, arrived home, Tuesday morning, on a furlough from Laredo, Texas, where the regiment is stationed. He reports the boys all in good health and feeling glad that they too will soon be home.
75 Years Ago – Oct. 2, 1941
Teaching position — Miss Agnes Abernathy has accepted a position as teacher in Hodgdon and will take up her duties there Monday.
Change of job — Joseph S. Robinson, for the past year employed as assistant to Town Manager W. E. Brackett, resigned this week to accept a position with the Plywood Corporation. He took up his new duties Monday. His successor has not yet been appointed.
50 Years Ago – Oct. 5 , 1966
Off to college — Do-Laine Leishman, daughter of Mrs. Isabel M. Leishman of Green Street, Houlton, has entered the freshman class of Regis College in Weston, Mass.. She is a graduate of Houlton High, where she was active in the Tri-Hi-Y Club and a member of the French and Latin clubs.
In Norway — Airman Second Class David M. Addington, son of Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn Addington of Granby, Conn., former resident of Hodgdon, is participating in Exercise ‘Bar Frost’ a joint week-long maneuver of United States, United Kingdom and Norwegian armed forces in the Harsto-Narvik region of northern Norway.
25 Years Ago – Oct. 2, 1991
Honored — Retired Senior Volunteers were recognized at a recent party. Receiving special awards were, Eva Deeves, 15 years’ service; Mildred Larson, 15 years’; Betty Lincoln, 15 years’ and Laurel Jiggs McNelly, 10 years’.
Graduated — Otis (Ted) Gallop, formerly of Houlton, was graduated June 21 from the San Diego Law Enforcement training center. The dean’s list student is serving as an officer for the police force in San Diego, where he resides with his wife, Melissa. His is the son of Charlene Gallop and Otis Gallop of Houlton.
