115 Years Ago – Nov. 4, 1902
Calmly — A large moose came from the woods one day last week and walked calmly across the farm of Mr. Hurd in Perham, passing quite close to the house.
Sweet sounds — Robert McLellan has taken the agency for the Roller Concert Organ, an instrument which anyone can play, and which has all the rich musical sounds of an organ. Mr. McLellan is selling quite a number of these new instruments and every customer is well pleasured.
100 Years Ago – Nov. 8, 1917
Storm — Another snowstorm Saturday covering the ground. Most of the white mantle has, however, since disappeared.
75 Years Ago – Nov. 4, 1942
To remain open — Due to present war conditions and demands made on the Postal Service, it is directed that regular service be accorded at all post offices and stations and branches on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1942, except that rural carriers shall not deliver mail on their routes. In accordance with the above order, the Caribou post office will remain open all day on Nov. 11.
Scrap donation — Some of the “Army boys” recently drove an old tractor, under its own power, to be loaded for scrap at Hjalmer Carlson’s in Colby. The only apparent “hitch” with the tractor is that it won’t go where you want it to. Besides the tractor, the boys also donated old plows, harrows, sawmill gear wheels, machinery, wheel-barrows and number of smaller pieces.
50 Years Ago – Nov. 8, 1967
To lower or not to lower hemlines — The Caribou School Committee excused visitors from its meeting and went into an executive session, not long ago on, of all topics, miniskirts. There was no “hanky panky” in the secret session about raising or lowering the skirts, or at just what length the hair should be worn. The school committee voted to back the principal and the Maine Statutes, Chapter 41, Section 45, under “The Duties of a School Committee,” which gives the decision on what is too long or too short is being left to the principal of the school.
Mazerolle to open office — Dr. Denis Mazerolle, obstetrician-gynecologist, has taken offices in the Pendleton-Coyne Freme Professional Building on Sweden St. at the corner of Summer St. The doctor, who comes here from St. Leonard, N.B., has already commenced his practice in Caribou, having performed surgery at Cary Memorial Hospital.
25 Years Ago – Nov. 4, 1992
Approval — The Caribou Board of Education has given one-year approval for a national anti-drug project called the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program for grade 6. The program, known as Project DARE, will begin in January. Fred Thomas Jr. spoke to the school board Wednesday night about how he was one of the first officers to be trained on “DARE” in Maine and the first in Aroostook. The DARE program will use a curriculum developed by health education specialists to work with children to teach them ways to recognize peer pressure and how to deal with it, among other things. The program will start in area schools next year.
