100 Years Ago – April 19, 1923 Contestants for the most popular teacher — Two of the Presque Isle teachers, Miss Flora Brooks of Ashland, Principal of the Gouldville School, and Miss Adah Savage, a member of the staff of that school, were among the contestants in the Bangor News Contest for the most popular […]
100 Years Ago – April 12, 1923 Potato shipments were heavy during March — With the single exception of the previous season, March was the heaviest in the shipment of Aroostook potatoes during the previous ten years, it was announced at the local Bangor & Aroostook office.
100 Years Ago – April 5, 1923
Presque Isle High School debating team — The debating team of Presque Isle High School composed of Clifton Williams, Jack Mooney, Philip Annas and Everett Larrabee, with Miss Cooper as coach, started Thursday morning for Lewiston to participate in the BAtes semifinals and finals Friday and Saturday.
100 Years Ago – April 5, 1923 Presque Isle High School debating team — The debating team of Presque Isle High School composed of Clifton Williams, Jack Mooney, Philip Annas and Everett Larrabee, with Miss Cooper as coach, started Thursday morning for Lewiston to participate in the BAtes semifinals and finals Friday and Saturday.
100 Years Ago – March 29, 1923
Prominent as basketball player — Louis Horsman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norval Horsman, Academy Street, was a Presque Isle boy who was doing good in school life, and of whom his parents had reason to be proud. Louis was a graduate of the Presque Isle High School, class of 1920.
100 Years Ago – March 22, 1923
Book by former Aroostook resident — The Star-Herald was in receipt of a copy of “Flashes of Thought”, a book of witty and humorous short stories and worthwhile selection, compiled and published by Alfred W. Hall, Portland, Maine, a former resident of Caribou
100 Years Ago – March 15, 1923
Station agent on B. & A. became an inventor — N. A. Robertson, formerly a resident of Marysville, N.B., a station agent of the B. & A. Railroad at Oakland, became an inventor.
100 Years Ago – March 8, 1923
Potato market — he potato market was a little more accurate and prices were distinctly better. $1.50 was the rule in price in Presque Isle, with few moving from farmers’ hands to shipping points. One of the prominent buyers told the Star-Herald reporter that in his opinion, the supply of Mountains was running low.
100 Years Ago – March 1, 1923
County over the top — Cooperative marketing landed safely with a margin of some thousands to spare. Figures compiled by H. F. McGlauflin, Secretary of the local Cooperative Marketing Campaign Committee, showed the aggregate of signers in the County to be a fraction over 54,000. Presque Isle at the time of writing was credited with 4033 acres.
100 Years Ago – Feb. 22, 1923
Mr. Hews on a business trip — Mr. Ray Hews, one of the most progressive and enterprising young farmers of the County, returned Saturday from Piscataquis and Penobscot Counties, where he figured actively in several very enthusiastic co-operative meetings.
