• Prices of potatoes dropped from $1.50 per barrel to $1.25 per barrel. • Miss Elsie Berce was working in Miss Evelyn Fisher’s millinery store, during the absence of Maggie Kelley, who was confined to the house with a threatened attack of typhoid fever.
• Miss Flora Rogers resumed her position as bookkeeper for Irving and Ricker Co., after her N.H. and Massachusetts vacation.
• William Allen had to be bandaged after getting a piece of brass in his right eye.
• J.A. Michaud took over the shoe business of Fred J. Dionne while he was sick with typhoid fever.
• W.C. Spaulding and Mrs. Louise Spaulding, of Caribou, took a 197-mile tour downstate, with Benjamin Spaulding and Mr. Worthington as chauffeur.
• William P. Callahan, of Boston, was in town for a few days making arrangements to open his potato brokerage office.
• Two Caribou men, Herman Kelley and Fred Corbin, lost their lives during a boating accident on the Aroostook River, just below Caribou Water, Light and Power Co.
• Local actors performed a three-act comedy called “Henry’s Wedding” at the Star Theatre in Limestone. Bennie Phair and Goldie Marks played the two leading roles.
• Citizens were getting ready for the third International Air Meet at the Caribou Airport, which was featuring members of the Canadian Good Will Air Tour, John Polando and Harry P. Trusty.
• Congressman John G. Utterback was in Caribou to hold a meeting and discussion with local citizens about the National Recovery Administration (NRA).
• Harry P. Trusty, formerly of Caribou, was in town for the International Air Meet, showing the safety device he created for airplanes, which allowed passengers to be dropped by parachute from the cabin during an emergency.
50 Years Ago: August 21, 1958
• Otis Peterson, of New Sweden, was the lucky winner of two car tires, when his name was drawn at the annual meeting of the Maine Potato Growers.
• Mrs. Gerald Burgess and Mrs. Chester Henderson, both of Caribou, were among those receiving golfing prizes during the Field Day held at the Edmundston Country Club.
• Wayne Hunter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hunter, of Caribou, enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and was taking basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
• A surprise August storm brought damaging lightning and hailstones, and caused the Caribou Stream to overflow and break the dam, bringing water through the Collins mill yard.
• The barn owned by Lynwood Noyes was completely destroyed by fire after it was struck by lightning during a heavy electrical storm.
• The little white chapel in New Sweden was moved across the road in preparation to turn it into a store owned by Everett Larson.
• Approximately $3,350 of Caribou High School property was damaged when vandals destroyed windows in the school’s vocational center. This figure did not include items stolen from the school.
• About 100 audience members attended a Tommy Cox country-western concert, raising $900 for a new wheelchair and communication board for Sherry Ouellette, who suffered from cerebral palsy.
• Janet Edgecomb celebrated the opening of her new 24-hour diner, “Janet’s Place,” on Water Street in Caribou, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
• Ribbon-cutting ceremonies were also held in Limestone, celebrating the opening of two new businesses, Cote Auto Repair and Jeans and Things.
• Philip Chesky won a $25 savings bond, presented by Col. William W. McCormick, after winning the McGruff crime-stop coloring contest at Loring Air Force Base.
• The Caribou girls’ soccer team lost their very first game to Fort Kent, after junior striker, Kelly Pelletier, received a broken foot late in the second quarter.
