100 Years Ago: Oct. 6, 1910
• On Friday, Sept. 30, Ray E. Greenleaf and Clifford Green picked up 155 barrels of potatoes in five hours, each one moving and emptying his basket. The potatoes are of the Green Mountain variety grown on the farm of M.A. Greenleaf of Washburn and turned out abut 100 barrels per acre.
• An alarm of fire was sounded at about 11 p.m. on Monday, the blaze proving to be in A.M. Fosters’ building on Water Street. The firemen quickly had three streams of water playing on the fire but the flames had gained such headway that it was impossible to save the building or contents.
• Walter Bishop and Otto Currier are on a hunting trip to Harvey’s Siding.
• Miss Katherine Wilder, teacher in the second grade, was taken sick Saturday with what has since proved to be diphtheria, The primary school was closed Monday and no sessions have been held this week. The building is being fumigated and school will be reopened Monday next with Mrs. Wooster substituting for Miss Wilder. Miss Everette Blackstone, assistant in the high school and her place has been filled my Miss Collins.
• Miss Florence Whittier and Harry M. Vinal were married this morning at the home of the bride’s parents on Pleasant Street by Rev. A.A. Blair, only the immediate relatives being present.
• Potatoes are at $1 per barrel.
75 Years Ago: Oct. 3, 1935
• A Caribou boy, Stanley McDougal, who has been engaged in gold mining at Fairbanks, Ala., for the past two years, had the very remarkable experience of witnessing the takeoff of Will Rogers and Wiley Post on their last flight from Harding Lake, which resulted in the fatal crash at a point 15 miles south of Point Barrow on August. 16. McDougal is therefore one of the very last to see the famous pair alive.
• Robert Frost is taking a prominent part in the musical life at Cornell University which he is attending this fall, having firs t qualified for the cadet band and just recently for the varsity band where he will play the clarinet. Robert’s skill on this instrument is ample justification for his selection for this important position,
• William Crosman has purchased the Zack Doody farm on Black Brook. Mr. Crosman is an expert farmer and will undoubtedly make a success of the venture. During the fall farming operations he is being assisted by Fred Giberson.
• The misses Dulcie Boone, Eva Smith and Beatrice Michaud were in Presque Isle Monday evening where they had supper and attended the theatre.
• Two salesmen of fur coats were ordered out of Hornell Friday and a warning issued to residents. Stopped in their sales efforts by police, bills in their possession showed that the coats they were endeavoring to sell at $185 were purchased in New York for $27.50.
• It seems as if nearly all the kids in town were at the Powers Theatre Saturday forenoon. At least, the seating capacity of the theatre was taxed to the limit when, as guests of the J.C. Penney Co. giggled and laughed over what they saw on the screen. All the well known cartoon characters were there including Popeye, Betty Boop, Walt Disney’s Colored Symphony and Our Gang.
