Headlines from 100 years of local news.
100 Years Ago – Nov. 22, 1916
Sailing away — Miss Hazel Manuel sailed from New York, Monday, as a member of the Harvard Surgical unit for France where she will be in a British hospital.
New horse — Willie E. Weed received a valuable speed horse from John Willard, Friday, which will make some of the local ones travel over the ice track this winter.
75 Years Ago – Nov. 20, 1941
New additions — The town of Houlton received a new Buffalo Streamline fire truck that replaces the Reo truck bought by the town in 1926.The town has also purchased a F.W.D. truck and full hydraulic snow plow for the Road Department in anticipation of winter and its snow problem.
Speaker — The Literature Group of the Houlton Women’s Club has been fortunate in securing Mrs. Mildred Wasson, an author living in Bangor, as a speaker for the next meeting in the club, Monday Nov. 24, in the Court Street Baptist Church parlors.
50 Years Ago – Nov. 23 , 1966
Auction — The 11th annual Rotary Radio Auction will conclude this evening and will climax what Rotary Club President Forrest Barnes terms a highly successful fundraising effort. The auction, this year, is to benefit the proposed new library at Ricker College.
Off to the windy city — Cynthia McGillicuddy, the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice McGillicuddy of Hodgdon and a member of the Pans and Needles 4-H Club, is leaving today for Chicago to attend the National 4-H Club Congress representing the State of Maine in the National 4-H Dress Revue Competition, for which she is the winner.
25 Years Ago – Nov. 20, 1991
Teacher of the year — Robert Dyer, physical education teacher at Katahdin Junior High School, was honored by the Maine Association of Health, Physical Education and Dance as Middle School Teacher of the Year for 1991.
Script writers — Seventh-grade students at Houlton High School completing public speaking classes in Mrs. Kilpatrick and Mrs. Gildart’s English classes had their script chosen for a “Boy with the Leaking Boot” commercial.
