115 Years Ago: Feb. 11, 1897
• Potatoes are at 65 cents a barrel today.
• Miss Emma Brissette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brissettte, was united in marriage Monday to Joseph Muzzall, the ceremony being impressively performed by Rev. E. Gauthier of the Catholic Church.
• Times are hard and money scarce, yet the Pattee Company, the dry goods hustlers, are doing a good business and keep a large force of clerks busy even during the dull times.
100 Years Ago: Feb. 8, 1912
• Harold Erb has entered the Republican office and will learn the printing trade.
• It is understood that Bruce Watson has purchased the controlling interest in the moving picture show business, or Dreamland Theater in Caribou.
• Candlemas Day has come and gone, leaving its undeniable evidence and predictions as to the weather. The ground hog failed to see his shadow in Aroostook and therefore the supposed Bessimer steel vertebrae of winter has been fractured.
75 Years Ago: Feb. 11, 1937
• All arrangements have been made for the Bangor to Caribou Ski Marathon, which will start Monday morning in Bangor for the long four-day trek to Caribou.
• Dr. S.T. Cyr spent the weekend at his home in Limestone, making the trip on horseback.
• The Caribou High School debating team, consisting of Jack Sullivan and Willetta McGrath, defeated a Presque Isle Normal School team composed of Harold Southard and Franklin Prescott at the high school Tuesday evening.
• Miss Adelaide Theriault left for Nashua, New Hampshire recently where she will enter the St. Joseph Hospital as a student nurse. She graduated form Caribou High School in 1936.
50 Years Ago: Feb. 8, 1962
• Mrs. Stewart Currier is replacing Mrs. Gerald Peabody as home economics teacher at Caribou High School for the remainder of the school year.
• Vicki Bourgoine entertained one afternoon at a skating party. Guests were Faye Pelletier, Diane Jepson, Jane Holmquist, Mary Ellen Pearson, Sandra Jalbert, Judy Anderson and Lorna Anderson. Refreshments were served by Vicki’s mother, Mrs. John Bourgoine.
• Byron Goulette, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Goulette, has completed basic training at the U.S. Naval Training Center at Great Lakes, Illinois. He has been transferred to the U.W. Naval Air Station at Olathe, Kansas, for schooling as a tower control operator.
• The Access Highway in Caribou, a site of ever-increasing construction and development, plays host to a new business this week. Under the proprietorship of Pat and Annie Martin the ‘diner’ management invites the public to stop in and see the new enterprise. Martin’s Diner will be featuring the finest of meals and lunches along with the specialty of the house, homemade bread and pastries baked daily.
