115 Years Ago: Dec. 24, 1896
• Potatoes are at 60 cents per barrel today.
• H.D. Collins is “king pin” at C.P. Hussey’s bowling alleys, he having made a score of 227 Wednesday.
• Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Webb and young child of Houlton, are visiting Mr. Webb’s parents in town. Mr. Webb is the successful principal of the Houlton grammar school and he and his family will remain in Caribou during his vacation of two or three weeks.
• George Robert’s 6-year-old son, Forest, while sliding down hill Tuesday, crushed the little finger of his right hand by coming in contact with a fence. Dr. W.A. Porter was summoned and found it necessary to amputate a portion of the finger.
100 Years Ago: Dec. 28, 1911
• Philip Trusty and Tony Disy were the successful winners of the two-mile relay race at the Caribou rollaway last Friday night.
• Sidney Chandler returned home Friday from the University of Maine where he has been taking a special course in pharmacy.
• The steel for the book stacks for the Caribou Public Library is expected to arrive within a short time, when the interior will more rapidly approach completion. The opening will probably occur the later part of January.
• Potatoes are still selling at top-notch prices, the price today being $2.25 per barrel. It is understood that $2.45 per barrel was paid for a few loads last Thursday.
• E.O. Dahlstrom, who has been engaged in Van Buren for a couple of months at carpenter work, returned home Saturday, having completed several large contracts.
75 Years Ago: Dec. 24, 1936
• The kindergarten music class of Mrs. Ruth Andrews in Limestone has been discontinued until the last of February. Mrs. Andrews leaves for Boston soon after Christmas where she will take some special work in music.
• Fred Doyle and Maurice Hall were elected as a committee to complete plans for a tractor school to be held in Caribou during the week of January 4th. Tractors will be thoroughly overhauled by farmers who attend this school. Special tools and equipment furnished by the Cooperative Extension Service will allow farmers to repair many parts of the tractor.
Christmas in Caribou — 1929.
• In accordance with the custom of many years, the management of the Powers Theatre will open their popular playhouse to the kiddies on Christmas morning for a show especially arranged for their entertainment. This is one of the events of Christmas Day looked forward to by the youngsters of the village, and they undoubtedly will be there in full force.
• Miss Elizabeth Ashby of Caribou, senior at the University of Maine, has been selected as one of the 11 women at the university for the All-Maine hockey team, chosen from the leading hockey players from the school. Miss Ashby was chosen for the position of right half.
• An attractive wedding was solemnized at noon on Monday when Miss Helen Johnson became the bride of Claude Lyon. Rev. G. Douglas Frazier read the single-ring service.
50 Years Ago: Dec. 28, 1961
• Thomas Patrick Cyr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noel Cyr and Hermon Ronald Pelletier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Pelletier, left Dec. 27 for the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.
• Among those from town who motored to Kingfield for skiing at Sugarloaf Mountain were Barbara Higgins, Kristi Pierson, Teddy Pierson, Jeffrey Frost, Ronald Harmon, Bearce Carter, Paul McLauchlan, Bill Helfenstein, Dick Getz and Jerry White.
• Construction of a “five-minute car wash” plant on the Access Highway is well under way and will be opened in late January according to Joe Deering who has been named manager. The “Rapid Car Wash” is to be owned by C.M. Robertson and David Flewelling of Presque isle and D.B. Weeks of Mars Hill.
• Peter Kidney, who is stationed at the U.S. Naval Base at Norfolk, Va., is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Kidney.
• The first edition of the Junior Hi-Lite was published at the Junior High School just before the Christmas vacation. Connie Snow is editor-in-chief.
