• Miss Grace Denton has accepted a position as stenographer and assistant bookkeeper for the L.J. Sherwood Company.
• Thompson and Hale’s Blacksmith Shop is quite a busy place just at present. They are shoeing from 35 to 40 horses each day.
This photo was taken in 1908 and the hunters were within the law which allowed them two deer apiece. The Caribou hunters are, from left, Evans Baird, Frank McNeal, Charles Baird, Judson and Sylvester Wright.
• John Sears, Jr. and Miss Bertha May Tracy were married Sunday morning by Mrs. Henrietta Hall.
• Miss Helen Briggs has traveled to Boston where she will take lessons in China painting.
• It is understood that G.L. Doe and Warren Ellingwood, who with their families were hunting in Perham last week, each secured a fine deer.
• A quiet wedding took place on Monday when Ruevilla, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Parker or Perham was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Amasia, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Butterfield also of Perham by Rev. Fr. McGill.
• The barber shop on Sweden Street, which has been owned and operated for a number of years by William Castonguay, changed hands when Thomas Cyr, who has served patrons of that shop for the last seven years took over the business.
• Gladstone Chapman has purchased a new horse.
• Workmen have been busy this week on the top of the Sincock School building, putting on a new built-up asphalt roof.
• Miss Cynthia McDonough of Mapleton, who has been substituting in the Republican office as linotype operator for the past two weeks, has returned home.
• Potato trucks are numerous on the road these days.
• Mrs. Clovis LeVasseur has opened a millinery shop in the store of Mr. LeVasseur’s in North Caribou.
• Sonny Beveridge, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Burton L. Beverage is at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Beveridge where he is driving the potato digger during the harvest season.
• Hundreds of dark-feathered robins of the type that summer far north of this latitude cleaned the mountain ash and other red berries recently and promptly moved further south with a belated flight reaching Caribou later in the morning. The second group of feathered travelers found nothing red available, tried listening for a few worms until a heavy shower set in, then started another leg of their route to Guatemala, or whereever it is that add a Spanish accent to their chirping.
• Stanley Brewer, president of Cobb Buick, Inc. in Caribou will be among the 160 Renault distributors and dealers from all parts of the country who will be leaving for the Paris Auto Salon, as guests of Renault.
• Mr. and Mrs. Frank Knowlton of Caribou have rented the Gustaf Tall house in Stockholm and have moved into their new home. Mrs. Knowlton is the former Regina Swenson.
• Television advertisement: Ex-baseball player Chuck Connors, who had a brief whirl with the Dodgers and the Cubs, will star in a new TV western, “The Rifleman.”
• Airman Frederick Plissey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Plissey has completed his initial course of Air Force basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. Airman Plissey is a graduate of Washburn High School and attended Fort Kent Normal School prior to entering into the Air Force.
• The federal Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to begin cleaning up a four-year-old hazardous waste spill in Washburn.
• Kim May a member of the Caribou High School cross-country team won the women’s division at the UMPI Homecoming Race. May ran the 3.1-mile course in 21:02.
• Seven-year-old Herbie LeVasseur of Fort Fairfield, the grandson of Woodland’s Herbert and Janet Ketch was the youngest runner to finish the UMPI Homecoming Race. The youngster ran the 3.1-mile course in 37:01 — the 115th runner out of 124 to complete the race.
• Aroostook Optical, located on Hershel Street in Caribou recently celebrated its grand opening.
• The petition drive to save the Route 223 bridge is gaining momentum.
• The Caribou Recreation Department is now offering “Body Recall” classes instructed by Laura Tobin.
1958 — Three busy members of the “front office” at the Aroostook Republican and News. Seated at left is Nancy Hathcock, bookkeeper and Delores Tuma, receptionist. Taking a telephone call into the office is, in back, Margaret Smith of the news department.
