50 Years Ago – Jan. 8, 1975
Caribou Post Office employee promoted — J. Maxwell Susee, superintendent of Mails of the Caribou Post Office, was appointed Postmaster of Fort Fairfield on Nov. 23.
25 Years Ago – Jan. 4, 1999
Alaska to home, by sled — Local men plan a trip: 6000 miles in 30 days. When three members of the Caribou Snowmobile Club travel to Alaska, they will go by plane. On the way back — all the way back — they’ll travel by snowmobile.
75 Years Ago – Dec. 22, 1949
To donate 1700 bags of candy at Yule party — Caribou’s annual Christmas party for children will take place this Saturday and next Monday, with hundreds of bags of candy and peanuts being readied for distribution and with a full-length feature and cartoons being prepared for a free showing.
25 Years Ago – Dec. 15, 1999
Retiring at top — Richard Griffin is retiring as the plant manager of First Technology of Caribou after 36 years with the company.
100 Years Ago – Dec. 4, 1924
Sharing entertainment with friends — Harold Brown was calling on friends in Woodland Sunday. He has purchased a graphophone and will give entertainment at his home.
75 Years Ago – Dec. 1, 1949
A special bonus given — The board of directors of the J.C. Penney Company has authorized a special payment of an amount equal to two weeks’ pay for all full-time associates who have been employed for the full year of 1949 and on a proportionate basis for extra and part-time associates and for those employed less than a year.
75 Years Ago – Nov. 24, 1949
Gilbert Brown celebrates 99th birthday at son’s house — Gilbert Brown observed his 99th birthday in good health Tuesday at the home of his son, John Brown, at the Brown homestead of 63 years.
25 Years Ago – Nov. 17, 1999
Center of attention — More than 200 people and a U.S. senator attended the open house Saturday for the nearly complete Ralph and Dorothy Allen Center for Women and Children’s Health at the Cary Medical Center.
75 Years Ago – Nov. 10, 1949
Nat’l. Trade magazine lands S.W. Collins building renovation — ‘The Lumber Co-operator,’ a national trade magazine, lauded the renovated S. W. Collins Co., office-warehouse building in its October issue.
25 Years Ago – Nov. 3, 1999
Officials visit the site of veterans cemetery — Legislators visited the proposed site of a veterans cemetery to get an idea of what needs to be done to change the field into a burial ground. Organizers hope to begin burials by Memorial Day.
