100 Years Ago – April 7, 1920
Accepted as instructor — Miss Dorothy Lyons has been accepted by the Chautauqua community as instructor of the children’s department and after the closing of the schools will be assigned to one of their circuits.
100 Years Ago – Mar. 24, 1920
Main Street block sold — The second important transfer that has taken place in the last few days was Monday when T. V. Holdaway and Ray L. Young purchased from John A. Tenney the McLeod store, so called, and this too is a valuable piece of property.
100 Years Ago – Mar. 17, 1920
Tractor School — Are you getting the service from your tractor or engine which the manufacturer intended it to furnish? Whether you are or not it will pay you to arrange to attend a tractor school which will be held at the store of the Putnam Hardware Company.
100 Years Ago – Mar. 3, 1920
Returned home — Supt. of schools T. P. Packard returned Saturday from Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended a convention of the National Educational Societies.
The Putnam-Ervin Company has been organized at Houlton, to conduct a general real estate business with a capital stock of $60,000, all of which is common stock; nothing paid in; par value, $100; shares subscribed, 600; directors, Lee W. Irvin, (president), Arthur O. Putnam, (treasurer), Fred L. Putnam, Houlton. This cooperation was organized for the purpose of conducting the interests of the Frisbie Block, so called, which the above gentlemen purchased last week.
100 Years Ago – Feb. 11, 1920
Returned home — Harold L. Cates has returned home from a two weeks trip to Boston and New York during which time he attended a get-together meeting of the Willard Storage Battery Company.
100 Years Ago – Feb. 4, 1920
Congratulations — At the meetings of the directors of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad and of the Northern Telegraph Co., which were held Friday at the B. & A. offices, the resignation of C.J. Ham, who has been corporate auditor, was accepted and E.C. Alexander, heretofore statistician for the Bangor & Aroostook, was appointed to fill the vacancy for the both companies.
Andrew J. Saunders and Geo. H. Benn, president of the Houlton Park Association, left Tuesday for Bangor to attend a meeting of Maine Fair interests to make details for the Fairs this coming season.
100 Years Ago – Jan. 21, 1920
New store — B. E. Anderson, propr. of the Houlton Shoe Hospital, opened his new shoe store in the Fox Bros. store and his first day’s business was a most satisfactory one.
100 Years Ago – Jan. 14, 1920
Houlton daily makes appearance — The first regular edition of the Aroostook Daily News made its appearance on Monday and is the first daily paper to be published in Aroostook County.
