Compiled By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer
100 Years Ago: Sept. 21, 1911
• Mrs. Olive Fair will return this week from Boston where she has been for three weeks accompanied by Miss Lillian Johnson, selecting her fall and winter stock of millinery.
1961 — The 1961 Potato Harvest commences
• The following young people have left Caribou this week for various institutions of learning: Sidney Chandler, Raymond Ebbett, Madeline and Beatrice Long and Alma Smiley, Bates College; Vernon Highat, Raymond Luce, Blanche Farrington, Clara Collins, Ernest Warren and Pearl Mitton, Colby College; Woodbury Berce, Wilfred Gallagher and Paul Willett, University of Maine; Thomas Whitney left Thursday lat for the same institution; and Miss Louise Donnelly, Boston Conservatory of Music.
• J.G. Lyons, one of Caribou’s enterprising farmers, has 30 acres planted to potatoes and is harvesting over 100 barrels per acre.
• Fort Kent won out as the place selected for the Northern Registry of Deeds in the election last week, over Van Buren. Fort Kent has already provided a lot for the building.
75 Years Ago: Sept. 17, 1936
• In Aroostook County the entire Republican slate of county officers was elected by overwhelming margin.
• Almost every motorist has at some time or other had the experience of being hauled out of a mud hole by horses. Last week, while on a trip to Matepedia, Mr. and Mrs. James McKenzie reversed the proceeding giving a tow to a team that was stuck in a bad place on the road.
• Miss Marie Quimby, who has been training for nursing at the Portland General Hospital, will take her examination for registered nurse this month.
• Fernald, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Anderson of Stockholm, expects to leave next week to return to Annapolis Naval Academy.
• This is the time of year when, more than ever, it behooves the motorist to be sure his spare tire is in condition to replace one of these rolling the road. The heavy movement of potatoes by trucks over the roads result in a plentiful seeding of nails from the barrels, the rougher gravel roads being the worst risks.
50 Years Ago: Sept. 21, 1961
• Mrs. Alma Sleeper and daughter, Dottie Ann, and Mrs. Nelson Sleeper and son, Mark, motored to Boston last week. Dottie has enrolled at Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School.
• Among upper classmen returning to Bowdoin College in Brunswick are Reginald Burleigh, Richard Winslow, Robert Page and Edward Donahue.
• A group of state officials joined with industry representatives to dedicate 126,000 acres of woodlands and waterways as Maine’s largest Free Farm. In addition to the tree farm, a new public boat launching ramp was dedicated on Cross Lake. Built by IP in conjunction with Sportsmen, Inc., of Caribou, the new ramp is designed to facilitate public access to the area’s 22 state-operated campsites, lunch grounds and picnic spots and to its 118 miles of lakefront.
• Citizens of Caribou and the surrounding area will have a chance to see one of the top Western Variety Shows of the season,. Plans are now under way to bring “The Cactus Kid” and his TV pals to Caribou for a one-night stand.
• Miss Wendy Lombard,has returned to Aroostook State Teachers College in Presque Isle, where she will be a sophomore this year.
