125 YEARS AGO: AUG. 10, 1901 New Business: A fruit and confectionery store and ice cream parlour will be opened next week by Miss Mercier in the Tingley block, next to F.H. Spriggs’ jewellery store. Roads: A correspondent suggests that work on the Cariboo road should be let by contract to parties living along the road. He thinks this plea would give good results, for the reason that the work would be done at the time it was needed by people livi…