Staff Writer
100 Years Ago: April 8, 1909
• L.W. Stevens’ fourth car of heavy draft horses arrived last night and it is well worth your time to call and look over the big teams.
1959 — Members of the Caribou High School Home Economics Class who will assist in serving at Caribou’s 100th birthday party at the Hotel Caribou are, clockwise, starting at the lower left: Barbara White, Raelene Hunter, Erdine Gagnon, Eleanor Wedberg, Bonnie Malm, Priscilla Lagerstrom, Marena Corrow, Louanne Mushrall, Colleen Kelley, Clyema Brown, Marilyn Ouellette, Ruth Swenson and Betty Cochran. In the right foreground in Mrs. Floyd Kelley, director of the group.
• Miss Maude Collins, who is attending Colby College, has been spending her vacation of one week at her home in this place.
• The saw mill of John F. Harmon is quite a busy place at present, a considerable quantity of long lumber being sawed.
• Recent transfers of real estate made through the Laffaty Real Estate Agency include: the Rundstrom farm on the Fort Fairfield Road to Page Brothers of Washburn; the Crouse farm in Washburn to John O. Clark of Washburn; and the Emery Spooner farm in Perham to Joseph Parks of that town.
• An electric light pole on High Street was broken Monday. In digging a hole to set a new pole, frost was found to be 14 inches deep.
• Potatoes are at $2 per barrel.
75 Years Ago: April 5, 1934
• Miss Blanche Farrington, Miss Gladys Brazie, Miss Villa Hayden, Miss Geraldine Chase, Mrs. Louise Theriault, Mrs. Genevieve Thibodeau, Mrs. Flora Anderson, Beulah Thibodeau and Mrs. Mary Roderick were among the teachers leaving Friday on the excursion to Boston for the Easter recess.
• The Misses Marie and Lucy Castonguay have opened a beauty parlor on Sweden Street.
• One of our town’s ladies was sitting up rather late one evening last week and dislocated her jaw while yawning. She was taken to the office of one of the local doctors but the jaw resisted all efforts to get it back into place and it was necessary to take the patient to the hospital where the operation was completed.
• Willis Phair, Class of 1932 and Ellen Finnemore ’33, of Limestone, are pledged to Sigma Nu fraternity at the University of Maine.
• Attorney Williard P. Hamilton has announced his candidacy for the position of Judge of Probate for Aroostook County.
• Several families attended the different churches in town on Sunday. Some went with double teams although the roads were in such condition that is almost impossible to get teams over them.
50 Years Ago : April 2, 1959
• Elbridge Dempsey, born Sept. 15, 1867, at the farm on which he resides was nominated as Caribou’s oldest living person, born in Caribou and still residing here. Although in his 92nd year, Mr. Dempsey leads an active life, snowshoeing to the woodlot where he cuts wood, reading newspapers and keeping up on current events. Moreover, he is growing a beard to celebrate the Caribou Centennial year.
• Philip Mealey, Jr., a member of the Boston University Glee Club, was an overnight guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lancaster. The Lancaster home was formerly the student’s home when here as a child.
• Timothy W. Currier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Currier, a student at Bowdoin College, was among those receiving numerals for the freshmen rifle team.
• The Caribou National Guard have an added attraction for their regular Friday night dances at the Armory. A newly formed combo, the Jaguars, will take the spotlight this week along with the rock and roll tunes of Tommy Cox.
• The whereabouts of a small plane owned by John C. Philbrick of Fort Fairfield remained a mystery Monday. The plane was rented to Airman Kenneth Muller, who took it to the Loring Recreation Center at Long Lake. On Sunday, Muller was “propping” the aircraft at the lake and apparently the throttle was open too wide and the plane started to move. Although the airman tried to hold on to it, the plane skimmed over the ice and became airborne, for some time circling over the lake then moved in an easterly direction. At best guess, it finally came down within an hour or two in New Brunswick.
• Police Chief Edward Tracy today warned Caribou residents of transient chimney cleaners who may charge exorbitant prices for inferior work.
1959 — Mrs. Walter Jaeger ties the official bonnet of the Sisters of the Swish, on Mrs. Dale Currier. The group was formed as part of Caribou’s Centennial Year, Historical Spectacle Week. The ladies joining this group would not be allowed cosmetics unless they purchased a cosmetic permit.
