115 Years Ago – May 28, 1908 Improvements and extensions — G. M. Morgan has been making some improvements in the interior of his furniture store, building on a wide shelf or extension, giving him 270 more square feet of room, which was much needed on account of his large stock of goods.
115 Years Ago – May 21, 1908 Accepted the position — Miss Maude Jacobs, who recently graduated from Miss Beal’s school of shorthand in Bangor, has accepted a position with W. C. Spaulding, taking the place made vacant by the resignation of mIss Faustina Briggs.
115 Years Ago – May 14, 1908 Traveling to visit brothers — Wilbur Roberts started Wednesday for Westfield where he will spend a short time with his brother, George Roberts, Jr., and will then go to Houlton where he will visit another brother, Forest Roberts. His place in the Garden Clothing Company’s store will be […]
115 Years Ago – May 7, 1908 Moving from Washburn — H. B. Field of Washburn, was in Caribou Wednesday. Mr. Fields has purchased a place in Norridgewock and will move his family to that place Wednesday of next week. He is one of Washburn’s most substantial and reliable business men, and will be greatly […]
115 Years Ago – Apr. 30, 1908 Making his home in Caribou — W. W. T. Pearson, who has been in Boston for the past three years, was in Caribou Monday on his way to New Sweden where he will reside in future. Returned from visit — Miss Bessie E. Lawson, stenographer in C. G. […]
115 Years Ago – Apr. 23, 1908 Working in Houlton to help out — Miss Gertrude Gahagan has gone to Houlton to work in the telephone office for a few weeks, taking the place of the regular operator who is confined to the house by sickness.
115 Years Ago – April 16, 1908 Business doing very nicely — The saw mill, operated by Joseph and Jessie Santers at North Caribou, is doing a very nice business. They have a large yard full of logs and lumber and more coming in every day. This mill is run by an 18 horsepower Reliance […]
115 Years Ago – April 9, 1908 Attracting attention — G. B. Robert’s flock of chickens of the Rhode Island Red variety, mentioned a week or two ago, is now on exhibition in the window of Mr. Robert’s barber shop, and is attracting considerable attention.
115 Years Ago – April 2, 1908
Replies to the question — A New York newspaper has been printing a series of replies to the question: ‘How can a family of three live comfortably on $2000 a year.’ The editor of the Biddeford Journal feelingly retorts that up here in Maine almost any of us would be willing to undertake the experiment without preliminary instructions.
115 Years Ago – April 2, 1908 Replies to the question — A New York newspaper has been printing a series of replies to the question: ‘How can a family of three live comfortably on $2000 a year.’ The editor of the Biddeford Journal feelingly retorts that up here in Maine almost any of us […]
