From our Files: Headlines from 100 years of local news.

Compiled by Karen Donato
Special to the Pioneer Times
100 Years Ago-Nov. 23, 1910
Aroostook Times
    Houlton — Work on the new bridge at Smith’s Ford, Foxcroft Road is progressing well and it is expected that it will be completed the last of this week.
    Local — Mr. Olin Smart picked a number of full-blown dandelions on Friday of last week.
    A gift — With each purchase of a pair of boys or girls shoes at McGary Shoe Store, they are giving away free, a large and beautiful noiseless writing and drawing book, a source of pleasure and enjoyment for the children.
    Power interruption — Owing to a break in the electric power line between Houlton and Mars Hill on Tuesday last, the Houlton Water Company was obliged to run their dynamo at the pumping station by steam, and as there is more electricity being used than they could handle to advantage, the lights were very poor.
75 Years Ago-Nov. 21, 1935
Houlton Pioneer Times
    Local — The severe storm of Sunday night and Monday disrupted automobile traffic to quite an extent, many cars being disabled and stuck in the deep snow along the roadside especially between Houlton and points north. The slippery heavy snow made turning out dangerous and steering difficult. A man with a tractor did a thriving business for a time Monday towing cars over Bunker Hill at the rate of $2 a car.
Houlton Pioneer Times 1956 file photo
WINNER — Tommy Fitzpatrick, left, received the award for outstanding work as a member of the Meduxnekeag Baby Beef 4-H Club. He is shown here with his nine-month old registered Holstein and his nine-year old brother, Albert, a perspective 4-H club member.
    Cachet for mail — Though the courtesy and cooperation of Postmistress, Mrs. Maurice Peabody, the Houlton Stamp Club has prepared a cachet to be stamped on all letters mailed on the opening day of the new Post Office. The cachet depicts an airplane flying over the new building, while the stamp itself, will be cancelled by a sketch showing a potato and the word “Aroostook”.
50 Years Ago- Nov. 24, 1960
Houlton Pioneer Times
    Welcome signs — Gerald Jackins, president of the Houlton Jaycees and several members erected four ‘Welcome to Houlton’ signs on entrances to this community. The project cost $150 with funds collected from various activities of the organization.
    Man rescued — Lying unconscious on his bed, overcome by smoke from fire in his home, Bill Haney of the Hollywood Road was rescued by Robert Chasse who was passing by the Haney house when he saw the fire.
    Theft — Lou Stevens, manager of Lavine’s Garage on Bangor Street reported the theft of a car radio, horn ring and cigarette lighter, all taken from a 1957 Ford parked in the junkyard off Green Street.
25 Years Ago-Nov. 20, 1985
Houlton Pioneer Times
    Scholarship — Diane Nagle, the 6 foot, 2 inch star of the Houlton High School’s undefeated State Championship girls basketball team, signed her name Wednesday to a letter of intent that will give her a full four-year scholarship to the University of Maine Orono.
    Nominated — Lauri Dunn, a senior and Dean’s List student at Springfield College in Springfield, Mass., has been nominated as a Rhodes Scholar. Lauri is the daughter of Fran and Bill Dunn.
    Dairy farm visit — The Military Street Nursery School recently visited the dairy farm of Thomas Quint on the Calais Road. Mr. Quint introduced the cows and their calves and showed the children how to milk. Many children actually milked the cows by hand. Making the trip were Jesse Green, Brooke Lowe, Jessica Weber, Jared White, Amanda Quint, Travis Merritt, Michael Weston, Matthew Hughes, Karen Flewelling, Misty Morton-Starbuck, Joshua Henderson, Barrett Good, Philip Hunt and Holly Quint.