100 Years Ago: August 18, 1910
• The price of a barrel of potatoes was at $1.50 on Wednesday.
• Ground was broken Monday for Hight and Page’s new molding mill on Washburn Street. This building will replace the one burned a few weeks ago and will be built on the most modern plans.
• Miss Dora Malloy gave a party to about 30 of her young friends in honor of her guest, Miss Bessie Gahagan. Music, dancing and social conversation were indulged in until a late hour, when refreshments were served.
• Married at Perham, Aug. 13, by Rev. Henry G. Clark, were Jerrard R. Smith and Grace E. King, both of Perham.
• Rev. Father Hogan of Houlton is now supplying at the Holy Rosary Church.
75 Years Ago: August 15, 1935
• It was the general consensus of opinion of municipal officers and school superintendents that “without outside federal financial assistance it would be impossible for schools to be open this fall.” It was also determined during a second meeting to try to get federal funds to pay the school teachers. Conditions are so serious in this County now that it is doubtful if the schools could be maintained without this aid. Fourteen county towns were represented at these meetings.
• Currier and Mockler, who have moved from their former store on Main St. to the second floor on Sweden St., over Ray N.L. Brown’s dry goods store, completed their transfer last week and were open for business on Saturday. The interior of the store is very attractive, the front room being the display room with a private office immediately in back of it and work rooms for their embalming business and a casket display room are at the rear.
• Encouraged by the success of the pari-mutual betting at Gorham, the Presque Isle fair officials have decided to put it in operation at the Northern Maine Fair.
• A big Douglas Army observation plane landed at the Caribou Airport about 6:15 Monday evening after a five-hour trip from Mitchell Field, N.Y. The plane carried Majors B.Z. Jones and Frederick L. Walker, both instructors at the Army War college in Washington. Both aviators were very much impressed by the country hereabouts and especially the appearance and availability of the Caribou airport. They denied any knowledge of the proposal for establishing an Army base in New England and said that they were not here on an official visit.
• George Frost has accepted a position as barber in the Fred Giberson shop.
50 Years Ago: August 18, 1960
• Frank Spinney of Perham is taking boot training at the Great Lakes Naval School.
• Mrs. Verna Johnson has returned to the J.C. Penney Co., after a two-week vacation at her camp at Madawaska Lake.
• Mrs. Ruth Conroy of Perham has completed the six-week summer session at the Aroostook State Teachers College.
• Caribou Police Chief Emri Silvasi reports a man described as a fair “roustabout” was beaten, knifed, robbed and thrown off a train in Caribou last Sunday.
• Attendance at the swimming pool last week numbered 1,900 according to the recreation department.
