100 Years Ago-Jan. 7, 1915
• Run for flour — Flour prices are “sufficiently near $10 a barrel.” Smith & Lufkin of Sweden St. advertise, “Have you started in the ‘buy a barrel of flour’ movement? If not, you better start right now because we have a hunch that this great necessity of life will be higher before it is any lower in price.” “Better buy a barrel now before the raise,” say merchants Shaw & Mitton.
• Party — Miss Evelyn Hussey very pleasantly entertained a number of her young friends at her home on High Street Wednesday afternoon, the occasion being her birthday. Miss Hussey was presented with a handsome sliced lemon server as a souvenir of the pleasant event.
75 Years Ago-Jan. 4, 1940
• Starting new year off — January is a fine time to start a farm account book. Such a book is distributed by the Farm Bureau and Extension Service free of charge. The book is very simple. No real education is needed to keep it and at the end of the year the Extension Service will summarize and check the book for you.
• Planes, trains … — The AVR timetable lists four arrivals and departures daily. Cars leaving Caribou at 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. connect at Carson with cars for Sweden branch. At the Caribou Municipal Airport, Boston-Maine Airways lists a daily arrival and departure. Two-way radio; all trips carry passengers, mail and express.
50 Years Ago-Jan. 7, 1965
• Cubs reorganized — Limestone Cub Scout Pack 193 has been reorganized under the sponsorship of the Limestone Chamber of Commerce, with leadership by Cubmaster Richard Lawrence and Assistant Cubmaster W.G. Morris. Board members are Gerald Duffy, Philip Hoyt and Robert Phair.
• At the cinemas — Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds and Pat Boone in “Goodbye, Charlie” are featured at the Powers Theatre, while the Caribou Theatre presents Jerry Lewis in “The Disorderly Orderly” and Elvis Presley in “Follow That Dream.”
25 Years Ago-Jan. 3, 1990
• Veterans Home opens — The Aroostook County Veterans Facility Committee has spent 10 years advocating health-care services for county veterans. Their efforts have paid off : the grand opening of the Maine Veterans Home at Cary Medical Center will be held this Saturday, Jan. 6.
• New tuition policy — The Caribou Board of Education adopted its first-ever written policy for tuition students. Nonresident students could be accepted from contract communities at a rate established by the state Board of Education, or at the request of a parent or guardian.
