115 Years Ago: May 20, 1897
• Twenty-nine shade trees have been set out on the courthouse lawn.
• H.D. Collins and L.N. Berce have taken a contract to build the bridge across Caribou Stream on Main Street.
• Miss Estelle Gammon will open her school Tuesday, June 1, in the primary room of the high school building.
• The graduating exercises of the Caribou High School on Friday evening were listened to with much interest by the audience that filled Clark’s Hall to its full capacity. The graduates were as follows: Harry B. Holmes, Clara M. Hardison, Edith L. Hardison, Elvilina Mitchell, John Roberts, Julia L. McLaughlin, Theresa E. Langley, Nellie M. Ginn, Myra E. Crockett, Edyth M. Holmes, Byron A. Hatch, Bertha Thomas, Nathaniel Gould, Mary A. Shay, Elllen Ladeau, Ethelynn Gary, Ottie Gammon, Joseph Uppling, Knut Ladeau, John Larsson and Walter Sealander.
100 Years Ago: May 23, 1912
• The telephone company has distributed new directories this week, revised to date with all the latest changes and additions, and kindly requests its patrons to call by numbers in the future instead of by name.
• Workmen are now busy moving the A.V. Goud residence on Sweden Street, recently purchased by the Methodist Society, onto a new foundation. The barn has already been moved back. It is proposed to build a new church on the site now occupied by the Goud house, which will be used as a parsonage, but it has not been definitely decided whether or not the church will be built this year.
• It is expected that there will soon be an organization of Boy Scouts in Stockholm, with Irving Howe as Scoutmaster.
• Mr. Eric Larson of Stockholm has a fine new touring car.
75 Years Ago: May 27, 1937
• David A. Snowman, 92, the last Civil War Veteran of Aroostook County, died Friday night at his home in Woodland, following an illness of three weeks. He would have been 93 years old on June 15.
• Mrs. Adelaide white had a party for Hazel Jacobs to celebrate what Mrs. Jacobs states was her 110th birthday.
• On Sunday afternoon about 70 friends and relatives, including all of his children and grandchildren gathered at the New Sweden home of Carl Espling to honor him on his 82nd birthday.
• One of the long talked of needs to this community during the tourist season is an information bureau. Through the initiative of the Woman’s Civic League an information bureau will be opened at the Powers filling station. It will be necessary to have two persons, well-informed as to conditions of roads, distances between towns and other points of interest, best tourists accommodations, the most successful place to fish, the proper time to view our fields of potatoes when in bloom and also when harvesting of crops is at its height.
50 Years Ago: May 24, 1962
• Over 100 twirlers participated in baton twirling contests at the Teague Park School gymnasium Sunday afternoon sponsored by the VFW Auxiliary. Title winners from Caribou included Miss Pee Wee Aroostook County Majorette, Debra Ann Hackett; Miss Novice Aroostook County Majorette, Carol Ann Dubay; Miss Juvenile Aroostook County Majorette; Lori Lynn Jalbert; and Miss Junior Aroostook County Majorette, Marjorie Plourde.
• Penner Ringdahl of New Sweden, accompanied Robert Mockler to Boson on a business trip.
• Miss Trudy Chambers, a senior student at the University of Maine, spent a weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Asher Chambers.
• Sandra Gustafson, of New Sweden, a student nurse at Lowell General Hospital in Massachusettes, spent a weekend with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Uno Espling.
