From Our Files (May 10, 2023)

From our Files – Week of May 10, 2023

50 Years Ago -- May 17, 1973   Mrs. Gardner was honored by SAD 10 -- A special Mother’s Day program was held on May 11, 1973, at Allagash Consolidated School honoring the mothers of the students in grades K-8. The students presented a variety of songs, poems and several selections on the flute-a-phone.

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Caribou area From our Files – May 10, 2023

115 Years Ago – May 7, 1908 Moving from Washburn — H. B. Field of Washburn, was in Caribou Wednesday. Mr. Fields has purchased a place in Norridgewock and will move his family to that place Wednesday of next week. He is one of Washburn’s most substantial and reliable business men, and will be greatly missed in that town. A move is being made — We are informed that Thos. Martin of Caribou will occupy the place formerly occupied by H.D. Bridges, a…

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• May 13, 1948 Hartley FFA Chapter members Alvin Fahlenkamp, Merlyn Feddersen, Donald Frick and Fred Schoelerman attended the state convention. The program included Future Farmer contests, general convention sessions, a banquet and a parade. Philip McCarty, son of Mrs. Mary C. McCarty of Hartley, was elected president of the Creighton University Chamber of Commerce. The society was a national...

From Our Files (May 10, 2023)

May 10, 1973 More than 40 businesses are participating in "Ding-A-Ling Daze," the biggest retail sales promotion sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Businesses will stay open late, and merchants are encouraged to dress in "Ding-A-Ling" costumes. A town crier will drive around in the Ding-A-Lingmobile with a large clock and pass out merchandise certificates every time the...

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Photo – Enough Already! These flowers weren’t expecting the snow last May 2 and neither were we. The snow came but what happened to spring? Reports of precipitation in Pawnee County vary from 1.97” to 3”.