115 Years Ago – April 16, 1908 Business doing very nicely — The saw mill, operated by Joseph and Jessie Santers at North Caribou, is doing a very nice business. They have a large yard full of logs and lumber and more coming in every day. This mill is run by an 18 horsepower Reliance […]
115 Years Ago – April 9, 1908 Attracting attention — G. B. Robert’s flock of chickens of the Rhode Island Red variety, mentioned a week or two ago, is now on exhibition in the window of Mr. Robert’s barber shop, and is attracting considerable attention.
115 Years Ago – April 2, 1908 Replies to the question — A New York newspaper has been printing a series of replies to the question: ‘How can a family of three live comfortably on $2000 a year.’ The editor of the Biddeford Journal feelingly retorts that up here in Maine almost any of us […]
115 Years Ago – April 2, 1908
Replies to the question — A New York newspaper has been printing a series of replies to the question: ‘How can a family of three live comfortably on $2000 a year.’ The editor of the Biddeford Journal feelingly retorts that up here in Maine almost any of us would be willing to undertake the experiment without preliminary instructions.
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.
