• Bear in mind the barn dance at H.D. Collins’ new barn on Collins Street next week. Dancing at 8 p.m. and admission is 25 cents.
• Harry Steeves leaves tomorrow for Boston and will return Wednesday next, with a mixed carload of horses. This is a good opportunity to match up your team by trading your driver or lighter pair for a team fit for the digger this fall.
• The Misses Vergie Allen, Fay and Vesta Shepard, Marguerite Smith, Blanche Farrington and Carlotta Pendell entertained the other members of the Sophomore class of the high school and also the faculty last Saturday evening on the lawn of S.E. Briggs. The grounds were made inviting and cheerful by numerous Japanese lanterns suspended from the trees. Various games were played and dainty refreshments served. The entire class, 32 in number voted the affair a most pleasant and enjoyable one.
• The Caribou band, in their dark green uniforms, made a most favorable impression Saturday, as they marched with the Grand Army of the Republic to the cemeteries.
• George Howe, Jr., has returned from the University of Maine and will spend his vacation at his home here in Caribou.
• Repairs are being made on the Baptist Church steeple.
75 Years Ago: June 8, 1933
• The first step in the plan to replace horses in the operation of the equipment of Battery B, 152nd Field Artillery, two Chevrolet trucks arrived yesterday.
• Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Blackstone of Perham arrived home Tuesday evening from Boston, having taken advantage of the special excursion.
• Roy Wardwell and John Pierce returned home recently from a fishing trip to Restigouche. Their entire catch was wrapped up in one 31 and one-half pound salmon.
• Arthur Giberson left last week for Chicago to attend the World’s Fair.
• E.E. Welts sold a very nice Ayurshire bull to E.H. Rackliffe of Easton, recently.
• Two reels of moving picture films showing the highlights of the Allagash trip were recently shown at the meeting of the Penobscot Fish and Game Association in Bangor.
50 Years Ago: June 5, 1958
• Mesdames Helen Murchison, Eva Clark, Lela Finnemore ,Doris Smith and Mattie Stewart motored to Bangor on a shopping trip over the weekend.
• New Sweden’s oldest citizen, John J. Johnson, observed his 92nd birthday last Friday. Johnson is the proud possessor of a cane trophy presented to him by a Boston newspaper given to the oldest citizen of the community.
• Miss Mary Lou Nelson of New Sweden, is home for summer vacation after completing her freshman year at the University of Maine.
• Principal Jess DeLois announced that a busy week of activities for the 120 seniors at Caribou High School will start with Class Day, Friday and conclude with graduation exercises June 20.
• Ansel Thompson Jr., of Washburn and Gordon Johnson of New Sweden enjoyed a few days of successful fishing at Fish Lake last week.
• Miss Barbara Hitchings, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hitchings and Miss Patricia Doak, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Doak, have completed their freshman year at the University of Maine.
25 Years Ago: June 8, 1983
• The top three students named at Woodland School are Juanita Ketch, Frank Frost and Stacie Williams.
• Caribou High School frosh sprinter, Karen Thompson, qualified for the Class A state track meet in all three events during the Class A regional meet held in Caribou. Thompson placed 5th in the 100-meter dash with 13.4 sec. and 6th-place in the 200-meter dash with a time of 28.2, and 5th-place as a member of Caribou’s 1,600-meter team relay.
• Towns of New Sweden and Stockholm are taking a “wait and see” approach on ambulance services. The choices left for the two towns and Westmanland Plantation are a volunteer service, the Caribou Municipal Service, or Keegan Ambulance Service, a private company. The town of Woodland has opted to join the Caribou services.
• The United States Achievement Academy has announced that Janice L. Briggs, a student at Caribou High School, has been named a 1985 United States National Award winner in English.
• The performances of the seniors on the Caribou boy’s tennis team paced the Vikes to their second consecutive county title.
• Charles G. Bonin of Caribou assumed the position of business manager at the University of Maine at Presque Isle.
