100 Years Ago: Sept. 15, 1910
• Potatoes have been coming in lively this week, the price paid being $1 per barrel.
• Lymon Gould left Wednesday for Washington, D.C. where he will enter the Bliss Electrical School.
• C.J. Lewis has purchased a Buick touring car. Fred J. Dionne has purchased an automobile — a Ford Runabout.
• Hugh Kirkpatrick has moved his family from Fort Fairfield to Caribou and will occupy the rent in one of H.S. Mitton’s houses on Smith Street recently vacated by John F. Law.
• Miss Bessie Kelley started Wednesday for Lowell, Mass., where she will visit her aunt until Monday when she will go to Brooklyn and enter the Brooklyn Art School for a course of instruction. Miss Kelley possesses considerable artistic ability as testified by her free-hand drawing in the Arcturus, being the artist of the class.
• Married at Perham, Sept. 8, by Rev. Henry G. Clark, were Dr. Fay F. Larrabee and Julia A. Wibbey, both of Washburn.
75 Years Ago: Sept. 12, 1945
• Fred S. Doyle carried away the potato exhibit honors at the Northern Maine Fair last week by his splendid exhibits of Cobblers, Bliss Triumph and Green Mountain certified seed. Not only did he win the grand sweepstakes cup, but he also carried away the $50 prize offered by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad as well as two individual prizes of $6 and $7 each for the best peck of Bliss and Cobblers.
• Miss Barbara Leighton, Miss Susan Getchell and Miss Galena Davenport, all of Limestone, went to Presque Isle Monday to take up their studies at the Aroostook State Normal School.
• George Corey, son of Mrs. Thomas Corey, left Tuesday morning for New York where he was to take the boat for New Orleans where he will enter Louisiana State University.
• Mrs. S.H. Chandler and son, Hobart, and daughter Natalie, left Saturday for Farmington, where Miss Chandler will enter Farmington Normal School.
• George E. Robinson, prominent local potato dealer, informs the Republican that he was one of the promoters of the race mentioned in last week’s “Who Remembers.” According to Mr. Robinson the race was run July 4, about 30 years ago at the Presque Isle track for a purse of $100 for the half mile. As not one person in 20 at that time had even seen an auto, the event drew thousands of spectators from a large territory. There were three entrants. One of the cars was contrary and refused to start, one gave up the ghost before the track was circled and the winner chugged under the wire at the hair-raising speed of about 18-miles-an-hour.
• The state election Monday at which four Constitutional amendments and one referendum question were voted upon, evidently meant little to the citizens of Caribou, as only 61 out of approximately 2,800 voters took the trouble to register their preferences.
50 Years Ago: Sept. 15, 1960
• Barbara Higgins, who has been a state delegate to the World Youth conference in Amsterdam, and on a tour of Europe, the past eight weeks, arrived in New York City aboard, the “Escania.” Her mother, Mrs. Clyde Higgins, met her in Augusta.
• Mr. and Mrs. John May are attending a furniture show in Boston. En route, they took their son, Jack, to Hebron where he will attend Hebron Academy.
• PFC Rodney A. Peterson is spending a 30-day leave with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Peterson before reporting to Fort Dix for overseas shipment to France.
• Mr. and Mrs. Cedric Porter motored to Boston to take their daughter, Faith, who is entering nurse’s training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
• Phillip Rogers vocational agriculture teacher and Richard Haines, a member of the FFA chapter motored to Springfield, Mass., to participate the Eastern States Exposition.
• PFC Darris D. Anderson, daughter of Jennie Anderson of Caribou is now stationed at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, having completed basic training for clerical work and personnel administration.
