100 Years Ago-June 11, 1913
Aroostook Times
New machine shop — The Taber shop on Mechanic St. has been leased by local parties and is being repaired and machinery installed for the repairing of automobiles, etc. Mr. Wm. Bernard of Fort Fairfield has been secured as machinist and comes well recommended as a skilled workman.
Of local interest — Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harmon, Mr. I. H. Davis and A. G. Munro were in Augusta last week where the gentlemen attended the Field Day of the Shriners. Michael M. Clark has a crew of men at work under the direction of Mr. Watts at the Houlton Granite Works, repairing the granite steps on the Court House. Mrs. Chas. McCluskey, Mrs. Walter Willett and Miss Goldie Smith attended the circus in Bangor last week.
75 Years Ago-June 16, 1938
Houlton Pioneer Times
Put that in your pipe — Hiram G. Garrison, 85, of Monticello miraculously escaped serious facial injuries or possibly death. Following his noon meal, Mr. Garrison retired to the sun porch, filled his favorite pipe, lighted up and began to read his newspaper. Suddenly there was a loud bang and his pipe dropped from his mouth. Weeks ago, while strolling through the school grounds, he had picked up a .22 calibre cartridge and put it in his pocket. The bullet had become mixed up with his tobacco and into the pipe unnoticed.
Home for the summer — Alice Ann Donovan, Ferne Lunt, Priscilla Thomas, Madeline Smart, Herbert Peabody, Atwood Smart, Bernard Hannigan, Christian Hall, Alex Munro, James McCain, Ralph Pipes and Eugene Moore, students at the University of Maine, are spending their summer vacations at their homes here.
50 Years Ago-June 13, 1963
Houlton Pioneer Times
Cedar mill leveled by fire — The mill of Reliable Cedar Products Inc. was totally lost late Monday night in a spectacular fire whipped by 15 mile-an-hour winds. The blaze also leveled a storage building owned by Robert Callnan with total loss of the two structures placed at nearly $65,000. The buildings were on a siding of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the eastern end of town.
File photo 1963
FOUNDER’S DAY BANQUET — Five county chapters of Beta Sigma Phi gathered at the Northland Hotel Tuesday night to observe the 32nd anniversary of the organization’s founding. The history of each of the chapters was reviewed during the banquet. Among those attending were, from left, Gayle Bates, co-chairman of the event; Barbara Fields, president of the Fort Fairfield chapter; Betty Stone, Houlton chapter president; Mrs. Thomas McCoy of Ricker College, guest speaker; and Nancy Ellis, banquet co-chairman.
Houlton High graduates 100 — Diplomas will be awarded to 100 members of the senior class of Houlton High School at Friday morning’s commencement exercises. Mrs. P. L. B. Ebbett, assisted by Superintendent George P. Milner, will confer diplomas. The valedictory address will be given by Timothy W. Lane, with David H. Haskell delivering the salutatory address.
25 Years Ago-June 15 1988
Houlton Pioneer Times
Garfield reading club — Area children in grades K to 6 can pounce on summer reading fun by signing up for the Garfield “Reading is my Life” Reading Club at the Cary Library. Assistant librarian Betty Fraser said the program aims to encourage reading for fun and to maintain reading skills during the summer months. This year’s mascot is Garfield the cartoon cat.
Antique equipment transfers to Hose Co. — Sockanosset Hose Company No. 1, a group consisting largely of Houlton volunteer firefighters, has been given title to five pieces of antique fire equipment by the Town Council. The equipment — a hand-drawn hose reel, horse-drawn hand pumper, horse-drawn ladder truck, a 1942 Ford pumper engine and a horse-drawn steam pumper that is the envy of hose companies around the state — will remain housed at the Fire Station.
