1911: Potatoes reach $2 mark
Compiled By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer
100 Years Ago: June 22, 1911
• Mrs. R.A. Shaw has sold her residence on South Main Street to the Episcopal Society, who will use it for a rectory.
• Potatoes reached the $2 mark last week. The market is now practically closed this season.
• Edgar Russ is building a new barn on his place on Vaughan Street.
• At the home of the bride on Sweden Street, in the presence of a few friends and relatives, on Tuesday afternoon, June 20, Abner Bonney, electrician at the power house was united in marriage to Mrs. Annie Keating, by Rev. R.W. Ferguson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church.
• Hon. Corydon Powers, one of Caribou’s most prominent citizens, died at his home on North Main Street Sunday, June 18, after an illness of three weeks. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon and will be in charge of the Masonic fraternity.
75 Years Ago: June 18, 1936
• The garbage and refuse collection service, sponsored by the Women’s Civic League, is now in operation — the first collection having been made this week.
• Miss Eva Chase of Limestone, who has finished her first year at the University of Maine, is now home for her summer vacation.
• Miss Gwendolyn Phair, who has been home a week from Ricker Classical Institute, went back to Houlton Sunday, where she plans to spend the summer.
• Mr. and Mrs. George G. Wakem have purchased the Armstrong camp, near Wessell’s at Madawaska Lake, and are making extensive alterations and renovations.
• William Monteith has been proudly displaying a three-pound trout which he caught in the Aroostook River Wednesday morning.
50 Years Ago: June 22, 1961
• Mr. and Mrs. Oden Foote took their daughter, Barbara, to Springfield, Mass., where she left by bus for Oklahoma City, where, as a delegate, she is attending the national convention of National Student Councils ,representing the state of Maine.
• Richard L. Johnson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnson of Stockholm, was graduated at Ricker Classical Institute this month.
• Mr. and Mrs. Albert Plourde of Stockholm have received a radio-gram stating that their son, Pvt. Paul R. Plourde, has reached South Korea safely. He had been stationed at Fort Gordon, Georgia before being shipped overseas. He is in the signal battalion.
• Tommy Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Cox, is home on a short leave. He completed school at the U.S. Naval Training Center at Pensacola, Florida, as communications technician radioman and will report soon at the naval station in Washington, D.C. for further schooling.
