• S.W. Brown has leased the L.J. Brown store on Water Street and will open a dining room to serve quick meals and luncheons.
• Frank Riley is moving his stock of groceries, etc. into the store recently vacated by the Fox Clothing co. The partition dividing these two stores is being taken down, making one large room, giving Mr. Riley just what he has needed for his constantly increasing patronage. When completed and Mr. Riley thoroughly settled, he will have one of the best appointed grocery stores to be found.
• George Trusty has accepted a position as clerk in the grocery store of Smith and Lufkin Co.
• It has been years since the crop of red raspberries was as plentiful as this year and long strings of people, young and old, make daily trips after the inviting berry.
• Burnham Belyea and Vernon Hight left this forenoon for an outing at Square Lake.
75 Years Ago: July 30, 1936
• Members of Battery B, 152nd Field Artillery, under command of Captain George M. Carter will leave Friday morning for their annual encampment which will take place this year at Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont. The Battery B boys will be away 16 days.
• Ellsworth Poland narrowly escaped serious injury Saturday at the Caribou Airport when, in attempting to start the plane owned by Elwood Kelley, the man assisting him pulled the throttle instead of the choke as he had been instructed. The plane started forward, just missed the hangar and an automobile standing there, flew a short distance into the air and turned a somersault into the oat field nearby. The plane was damaged to the extent of about $75.
• Carl Rasmussen is tearing down the house on the Todd place in Green Ridge, and will erect a new bungalow. this building is one of the old landmarks and was built somewhere about the year 1860.
• A monster mid-summer air meet and tombola is to be held at the Caribou Airport Aug. 3-8. There will be a complete midway with 40 attractions, rides, shows and concessions. Parachute jumps will be made from planes each evening. Admission to the grounds will be free and no charge will be made for parking.
• Gustaf Anderson of Stockholm has purchased a Studebaker automobile this week.
50 Years Ago: Aug. 3, 1961
• Lt. Col. Clayton E. Gagnon of Caribou recently was awarded a Certificate of Achievement for Meritorious Service upon his retirement from the United States Army. He had served in the Army for 20 years.
• David A. Steeves, yeoman third class, U.S.N., son of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Steeves of Caribou was serving on the anti-submarine warfare support aircraft carrier U.S.S. Randolph off the coast of Florida, when the ship participated in recovery operations for Air Force Captain Virgil Grissom, the second U.S. astronaut.
• Patty Thurston, Diane Brown and Gayla Quimby recently attended a pajama party at Maureen Bishop’s home on York Street.
• Mrs. Hilma Hede and son, Richard, of Arlington, Mass., and formerly of Stockholm, are on a three weeks’ trip to Sweden.
• Mr. and Mrs. Paul Haines recently attended his tenth Fort Fairfield High School class reunion held at the Aroostook Valley Country Club.
