115 Years Ago — Oct. 23, 1901
First snow — The first snow of the season fell Thursday night. The snow, which covered the ground Friday morning, soon disappeared.
Extension — The main water pipe on Limestone Street has been extended a distance of 550 feet. It takes in three new service pipes.
100 Years Ago — Sept. 10, 1916
Scarce rents — Rents in Caribou are decidedly scarce, it being impossible to secure a rent at any price; all of which tends to show that our town enjoys a good, healthy growth.
Price goes upward — The price of potatoes has had a decidedly upward tendency during the past week, the figures almost reaching the $4 mark, as a few loads have gone as high as $3.90 per barrel. Many farmers are taking advantage of the good prices and are selling in large quantities.
75 Years Ago — Oct. 23, 1941
Home defense — Copies of “You Can Defend America”, the home defense handbook may be obtained for 10 cents at Havey’s Pharmacy. Everyone who saw the Revue Wednesday night (and anybody, if there was anybody, who didn’t) should study this booklet with its three lines of defense behind ships and planes and guns.
Halloween dance — The Caribou Lions Club are now making plans for a Halloween dance to be held Thursday night, Oct. 30 at the Caribou High School gymnasium. A six-piece orchestra and appropriate decorations for the event will be offered for the first in town public dance of the fall and winter season.
50 Years Ago — Oct. 26, 1966
Broken neck — Despite a pain in the neck, Arnold Rafford of Caribou is reported as “resting fairly comfortably” at Arthur R. Gould Memorial Hospital in Presque Isle after an ordeal during which he carried his unconscious 14-year-old son, Michael, about two miles through woods, then conveyed him across Squa Pan Lake in a canoe and drove a Jeep three miles further for help, all with a broken neck. The two were injured as Rafford and son were returning by railroad motor car to a camp at Squa Pan. The car for some reason left the track and both were thrown.
Dignity for the aged — Secretary of State Kenneth M. Curtis, democratic candidate for Governor, has release Point EIght of his “Maine Action Plan” entitled “Dignity for the Aged.” All in all, Curtis makes 20 separate proposals for ameliorating the condition of the elderly citizens of Maine. Curtis went on to say that over the past seven years under the administration of his appointment, John Reed, that Maine has been “pursuing a course that too often ignores the needs of people over 65 and avoids our responsibility to Maine’s senior citizens.”
25 Years Ago — Oct. 23, 1991
Vocational director — Lynn R. McNeal of Caribou has been named the new director of the Caribou Regional Vocational Center. Appointed by the Caribou Board of Education at its Sept. 25 meeting, McNeal assumed responsibilities of the job Sept. 30, following the Sept. 12 retirement of director Dana Shaw. Well-known at the vocation center, McNeal has taught a two-year electronics program he developed and instituted for junior and senior students since the center’s opening in 1975.
