115 Years Ago-Jan. 4, 1900
• Lumber is coming in freely at the mills now as there is enough snow for roads in the woods.
• C.P. Hussey has purchased one of Edison’s concert phonographs and will give a concert in Clark’s hall in the near future.
100 Years Ago-Dec. 31, 1914
• Aroostook spud roast — More than 65,000 barrels of Aroostook county potatoes were destroyed by fires in potato houses at Limestone, Caribou and Smyrna Mills, Saturday and Sunday, with a loss of over $50,000.
• Home for the holidays — John Clark, who has been working in the woods at Griswold, spent Christmas at his home in this place (Caribou). Mrs. Mable Sweetser, who is employed by General Film Co. in Bangor, spent Christmas at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Powers.
75 Years Ago-Jan. 4, 1940
• Local business news — Enlargement of the G. G. Wakem clothing store on Sweden St. is now in operation in a space made available when the Nap Chaloult barbershop was moved to another site. Frank Smith Jr. of Presque Isle, who recently purchased the Odd Fellow’s building, will open a new farm machinery shop here. A high single string bowl at the new Lucky Strike alley has been set by Herbert Learnard with 175 pin falls.
• Latest telephone technology — The newest development for the home is a telephone which dials automatically. Designed for those who make many calls or call the same numbers frequently, the Card Dialer is especially useful to women with club or church activities or in the operation of a home business.50 Years Ago-Dec. 31, 1964
• Guerette Christmas babies, a family tradition — Currier Furniture Co. awarded a single bassinette to a baby born on Christmas Day this year. The only baby reportedly born here was Robert Guerette, Jr., whose parents are Robert and Mary (O’Clair) Guerette of Van Buren Rd. However, the Christmas baby came as no surprise to the Guerettes as four members of the father’s side of the family have also been born on Dec. 25!
25 Years Ago-Dec. Jan. 3, 1990
• Ending 1989 with a surplus — The city (Caribou) will finish fiscal year 1989 “in a very good surplus position,” City Manager Terry St. Peter reported to the council last week.
Minimum wage now $3.85 — Maine Labor Commissioner John Fitzsimmons reminds all employees and employers that the state’s minimum hourly wage increased from $3.75 to $3.85 per hour effective Jan. 1.
• New Days Inn for Caribou — In a full-page advertisement: “Introducing the newest Days Inn, Grand Opening, January 15, 1990, Access Highway, Caribou, Maine.”
