100 Years Ago: July 21, 1910
• Ralph Pitcher has purchased the interests of his partners, S.L. White and E..J. Briggs, in the potato shipping business and will hereafter conduct the business alone.
• The Bangor and Aroostook freight office was entered Sunday night, the burglars breaking out a window pane and then opening the door. The till was robbed of its contents, but that only amounted to 35 cents.
• A surveying party is now near the Ullrich Starch Factory in Woodland, in the interests of the Aroostook Valley Railroad. Is it not about time that Caribou took some initiative toward having the electric road come to this town?
• Miss Vesta Shephard has been clerking in Mrs. M.E. Luce’s store this week in the absence of Mrs. Luce.
• Mr. and Mrs. Howard O. Spencer and R.F. Gardner returned Friday from their trip to the southern part of the state by automobile. They visited many towns, found the roads in pretty fair condition and the weather fine.
75 Years Ago: July 18, 1935
• Percy McDougal had a very narrow escape last Sunday while swimming above the dam, being caught in the current and carried over the dam. Mr. McDougal received some bad cuts and bruises but was very fortunate not to have been more seriously injured.
• Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Frost have had their engagement book pretty well dated up during the commencement season this year, mostly with the graduations of their three sons, Royal H., who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania; H. Parker, who graduated from the University of Maine; and Robert A., who graduated from Caribou High School.
• Murray Mockler, chief of the Caribou Fire Department, leaves tomorrow for Portland where he will attend the New England Convention of Fire Chiefs.
• Tom Hartley’s Denver Lunch on Water Street was the scene of a raid by Sheriff Jasper Lycette and Federal officers last evening with the net result of a seizure of, “plenty of choice liquors and alcohol,” as Chief of Police Forrest Clifford expressed it. The raid was only one of a number pulled off by the sheriff, two federal officers and two deputies. The towns visited were Houlton, Mars Hill, Presque Isle and Caribou.
• Work on the concrete pavement on Main Street is practically finished so far as the main road goes. All that remains now to be done is the filling in of the connections between the main line of pavement and the side streets, High, Sweden, Water and Bridge streets. A little extra job which was not foreseen has been the tearing up of about 30 feet of the asphalt in front of the Universalist Church to allow for several inches difference in level between the concrete pavement and the asphalt where the two came together. This difference is evidently due to an engineer’s mistake.
50 Years Ago: July 21, 1960
• U.S. Marine Pvt. John E. Libby, the son of Merle F. Libby of Caribou has completed recruit training at the Marine corps Recruit Depot, Paris Island, South Carolina.
• Mr. and Mrs. Alva Pangburn motored downstate to take their sons, Alan and Paul, to the state YMCA camp at Winthrop for a month’s attendance.
• R. Kent, known throughout the potato industry as ‘Red’ has been named sales manager of Spud-Mor Inc., a newly formed Caribou corporation.
• The town council met to discuss current petitions this week. One of the petitions was that of the caribou TV Inc. to erect poles on the Baird Road for the purpose of transmitting television programs in Caribou.
• Town Manager Charles D. Hatch reported Wednesday, that the highway work on South Main St. was nearly completed. Hatch said that the town, “Should feel proud of the work because all of the money came directly from the Caribou Highway Department. The actual cost will be around $34,000 but had the job been contracted, it would have cost over $50,000.”
