115 Years Ago – Mar. 26 1908
Gone to Fort Kent for business — Lewis Washburn went to Fort Kent Monday in the interests of B. D. McLellan’s gasoline engine business.
In session — The National Horseshoers Protective Association is in session today in Caribou. Delegates from nearly every town in Northern Aroostook are in attendance.
115 Years Ago – Mar. 19, 1908
Growing in size — The enlargement of the cloak department in Pattee & Co.’s dry goods store makes an improvement of a very noticeable nature, giving this large firm a much better, more desirable and lighter place to display the large line of cloaks carried. The room has been fitted up in a very handsome and convenient manner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
