Compiled By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer
100 Years Ago: Sept. 27, 1910
• Raymond P. Luce and Blanche Farrington, graduates of the Caribou High School in the Class of 1910, have gone to Waterville, where they will enter Colby College.
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1934: The Devoe Farm in Limestone, like many others in the area, stored their potatoes in the basement of their family home.
• The building owned by C.T. Bishop and situated on the Madigan lot corner of Main and High streets, has been leased to H.E. Smith of Houlton, who has moved the building nearer to the center of the lot and will build on an addition in the rear and open a candy manufacturing establishment. Mr. Smith has been engaged in making candy for number of years and already has customers in nearly every town in the county.
• Miss Ethel Johnston, a crackerjack compositor, who has been assisting the Hartland Observer force for two weeks, will resume her position on the Republican.
• C.C. McKay of Perham was in town Tuesday. Mr. McKay had a narrow escape from what might have been a serious injury, a young bull which he was leading hit him in the face with one of its horns, inflicting a bad wound on the chin.
• George Shaw, while practicing baseball at Teague Park recently, met with an unfortunate accident, breaking his wrist.
• Potatoes are at $1 per barrel.
75 Years Ago: Sept. 26, 1935
• At a meeting of the Independent Merchants’ Association held at the Matoaka Club dining room last evening, it was voted to open all retail stores for the next three weeks on Tuesday evening in addition to Saturday evening. This is for the benefit of those engaged in potato digging who find it difficult to get away during the day to get their supplies.
• Miss Olive Thomas of Caribou visited Miss Alene Leighton of Limestone a few days last week.
• One of the men’s clothing merchants asserts that he has sold more pairs of overalls to women and girls this fall than he has to men. And a lot of the members of the “weaker sex” can travel up a potato row raster than the male pickers.
• Officer William Castonguay did a most excellent job in handling the heavy automobile traffic at the airport grounds during the carnival last week. In spite of the large number of cars on the grounds, especially Friday and Saturday evenings, there were no accidents.
• Pius Sirois, who has for a number of years conducted the Specialty Shoe Store on Sweden Street, makes the announcement in this week’s paper that the business is to be entirely closed out next week and the store will be closed for good. The reason for this is that Mr. Sirois has accepted a fine position with the great department store of Bonwit-Teller on Fifth Avenue, New York City, where he will be in the shoe department. Mrs. Sirois is particularly well fitted to serve the high class trade which patronizes that famous store.
• The appointment of Winthrop C. Libby of Caribou an assistant professor in the College of Agriculture of the University of Maine, has been announced by Pres. Arthur A. Hauck. Mr. Libby is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy S. Libby and graduated from Caribou High School in 1928 and from the University of Maine in 1932.
50 Years Ago: Sept. 29, 1960
• Mrs. Verna Johnson has been chosen the outstanding BPW Club Woman of 1960 by members of the local club. The announcement was made at the dinner meeting held at the Hotel Caribou by Mrs. Alda Doak, club president.
• Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bennett motored to Orono taking their son, Richard, who was enrolled for his sophomore year at the University of Maine,
• Douglas W. McDougall of Perham, Jaycee State vice president will be one of the representatives from Maine to the Junior Chamber International World Congress, in Paris Nov. 13-20.
• Two Aroostook girls have returned to Westbrook Junior College for their senior year. They are Diane Ginn, daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Kenneth L. Ginn of Caribou and a graduate of Caribou High School, who is enrolled in the medical secretarial course and Miss Lorna Nickerson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer M. Nickerson of Limestone, who is taking the liberal arts course.
• Mrs. Florence Forbes, a floor-lady at the Caribou Birds-Eye plant, was awarded a plaque this week as a nominee in a nationwide safety competition among Birds-Eye employees.
• Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anderson of New Sweden left for Newton, Mass., to take their daughter, Carole, to school. She is enrolled at Mt. Ida College.