100 Years Ago: May 11, 1911
• The ice went out of Square Lake Tuesday and now the fishermen are happy.
• Miss Beatrice Long began teaching a summer term in the St. Peter District Monday.
• Miss Eska Carr has accepted a position as bookkeeper in the office of the Caribou Water, Light and Power Co., taking the place of Mrs. Thomas Bouchard, who resigned.
• Miss Maud Collins has accepted a position in the Caribou Grange Store as bookkeeper.
• A largely attended meeting of baseball enthusiasts was held at the law office of Hon. Willis B. Hall Friday night for the purpose of organizing a baseball team for Caribou for the season of 1911. Joseph McGrath was elected manager and a good man for position he will prove to be. Ralph Roberts was elected captain.
75 Years Ago: May 7, 1936
• Aroostook County is practically assured that a Federal Savings and Loan Association will be opened in Caribou within the next few months to assist in financing homes on very easy terms, as well as to provide a place to save money regularly, with each dollar insured against loss. Ninety citizens throughout the county have subscribed for $58,600 worth of savings shares and will pay in ten percent of that amount when the charter is granted at an organization meeting.
• Quite a number of Caribouites were in Presque Isle Sunday evening to witness the “audioscopic” pictures at the State Theatre. To say that they are novel would be stating it mildly. The pictures, which are colored, can hardly be distinguished with the naked eye — nothing but a blurred effect being seen, but when seen through colored lenses (furnished by the theatre) the effect is rather startling.
• Dr. F.O. Blossom, and W. W. Raymond were fishing in Cross Lake Friday, bringing home to their families a fine mess of luscious smelts. They report that at the time there were about 65 boats on the lake.
• A group interested in the welfare of the Cary Hospital met Monday at the Brown home to discuss the formation of a Hospital Auxiliary. Arthur G. Vose, who spoke to the group as a representative of the Hospital Board of Directors, explained the need for a better understanding of the hospital’s problems throughout the community and also the need for increased community interest and support of our hospital. The Cary Hospital
is as fine an institution of its kind as there is in the state. More of our townspeople should realize the burden of charity work being carried on at the hospital. Also few people realize the splendid training school for nurses that has been developed there though the years.
50 Years Ago: May 11, 1961
• Gerald Dow, Dwight Stickles and Raymond Todd, all graduates of Caribou High School, were among the 19 students who have successfully completed the two -year agricultural program at the University of Maine and were awarded certificates at graduation exercises by Dean Winthrop C. Libby, of the college of Agriculture.
• Shirley Lombard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Lombard, observed her 13th birthday recently at a “beatnik” party. Guests arriving in costume were Judy McNeal, Linda Jones, Connie Snow, Cindy Currier, Carolyn Fletcher, Jean Wallace, Gloria Wright, Belinda page, Kitty Collins, Joanne Keyser, Mary Dannaher, Barbara Levesque and Dawn Dow.
