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Caribou area From our Files – Week of March 15, 2023

115 Years Ago - Mar. 12, 1908 New occupants -- The store recently occupied by Miss Evelyn Smith as a millinery store next door to the post office is being remodeled and will be occupied some time next month by the American Express Company.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of March 8, 2023

115 Years Ago - March 5, 1908 Repairs being made -- C. H. Merrill has been making repairs on the ever-popular Vaughan House, repainting the dining room, and repapering and painting the rooms on the upper stories. The work is under the supervision of W. W. Gatherer.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of March 1, 2023

115 Years Ago - Feb. 27, 1908 Returned from extended trip -- Mr. and Mrs. C. Powers returned last week from an extended trip to Wisconsin, Minnesota and other western states. Mr. Powers reports but very little snow in that section, and states that wheels were in use in nearly every place he was in.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of February 22, 2023

115 Years Ago - Feb. 20, 1908 Returned from Boston -- H. H. Whitney, who has recently returned from Boston where he graduated from the Barnes’ Embalming School, has had the room on the west of his furniture store fitted for a casket room and has stocked it up with a good line of caskets.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of February 15, 2023

115 Years Ago - Feb. 13, 1908 Trip to Boston and New York -- Ray N. L. Brown started Tuesday morning for Boston and New York where he will visit the markets for the purpose of selecting a spring and summer stock of goods for A. V. Goud & Co.’s dry goods store.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of February 8, 2023

115 Years Ago - Feb. 6, 1908 Returned from trip-- Howard Fox returned Monday from a trip to New York, Buffalo, Montreal and other cities, having made the trip in the company of his brother.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of February 1, 2023

115 Years Ago - Jan. 30, 1908 Retired -- G. W. Irving has retired from the Caribou Water, Light & Power Company, his interests having been purchased by R. L. Gary and J. P. Donworth.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of January 25, 2023

115 Years Ago - Jan. 23, 1908 New photographic studio opens -- A. W. Plummer, the ‘ping pong man,’ who has opened a photographic studio in the Cary block, was employed as photographer by the Associated Press at the time of the San Francisco earthquake, and has many of the original pictures taken at that time.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of January 18, 2023

115 Years Ago - Jan. 16, 1908 Getting things started -- The Aroostook Starch Co. had a crew of men at work last Thursday clearing land to pile lumber on for their now factory to be built next summer. It will be a few rods back from P. L. Youngren’s store.

Caribou area From our Files – Week of December 28, 2022

115 Years Ago - Dec. 26, 1907 Busy day -- Tuesday was a busy day with Caribou merchants. Many traders report the Christmas business ahead of last year; and this, too, in a year when Aroostook is supposed not to have any money.

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