100 Years Ago: June 15, 1911
• The following pupils were not absent one-half day during the last term of school in grade 1: Miss Ida B. Jacques, teacher; Ellen Paul, Adella Pitcher, Gretchen Cox, Clara Smith, Kathleen Straight, Donald Gray, John Glenn and Jack Kelley.
• Perley Carle has the cellar dug for a new house which he intends to build this year on Fremont Street.
• Remi LaFleeche is now going about by the aid of crutches, having broken a ligament in one of his ankles while playing ball this week.
• Lyman B. Goud, who graduated from the Bliss Electrical School in Washington, D.C., has gone to Cattlettsburg, Kentucky, where he has accepted a position.
• Mrs. Beecher Currier has been assisting as bookkeeper in the Caribou Grange Store during the absence of Otto Currier, who is on his vacation.
75 Years Ago: June 11, 1936
• The long anticipated and much desired traffic signal light was installed today at the intersection of Main, Sweden and High streets. The light is one of the newest, most approved types, made by the Gamewell company. Instead of being mounted on a base, it is suspended from a cable stretched between the corner of the Holmes Block and the electric light pole diagonally across the street. The light suspends about 14 feet above the street and is so arranged that it cannot twist and the lights will always be pointed in the right direction.
• A meeting of the fire chiefs of a number of Aroostook County towns took place at the Vaughan House June 3. There were a number of guests and all were the guests of Erland Noyes. The object of the meeting was to form an Aroostook County Fire Chiefs’ Association. A temporary organization was formed with the following serving as a board of directors: Chiefs A.H. Damon of Limestone; F.A. McGlauflin of Presque Isle and M.E. Mockler of Caribou.
• James H. Oak has purchased the Schuyler Page house on Page Avenue and will move into the same as soon as repairs are made.
• Gilman Sullivan has been spending a few days at his home here before returning to Harvard University for the commencement exercises. Mr. Sullivan is a senior and will graduate this year.
• William Thompson, Ethel Mae Currier, Marie Thompson, Philip Peterson, William Bishop, Waldo Hardison and Roger Bouchard have returned for the summer vacation from their studies at the University of Maine.
50 Years Ago: June 15, 1961
• At noon on Monday earsplitting sounds of grinding metal and shattering glass were heard for blocks along Main, High and Sweden streets. A delivery truck owned by Grant’s Dairy rocketed through the intersection of Main and Sweden, bounced off two parked vehicles, collided with another and came to rest against the cement retaining wall of Hotel Caribou. According to the driver he was half-way down North Main hill when he realized that he no longer had any brakes.
• The largest class in the history of Caribou High School will be graduated this week. Principal Jess DeLois announces that 156 seniors will get diplomas Friday night at graduation ceremonies at General Carter State Armory. Among some of the fields and colleges students plan to attend include: 10 graduates plan to enter the University of Maine; nine will attend Husson College; planning to enter teachers’ college are two at Fort Kent; one at Farmington, one at Gorham and one at Washington State. Seven students are planning on a nursing career; and four have chosen beauty culture as a field. Twenty-four members of the Class of ’61 are planning on entering the armed services. One chose the Marines; seven the Army; 11 the Navy, one the Air Force; three the National Guard and one is undecided. From the class, nine have marriage plans and five plan to take up farming. Thirty-one will enter the secretarial and business field with 23 going on to other various types of learning.
• Miss Sharon Estey has completed her freshman year at the University of Maine and is home for the summer recess. She is employed at SESME Carhop and was recently elected co-historian of Pi Beta Phi Sorority.
• The New Sweden Town Hall was the scene of the New Sweden Consolidated School’s 8th Grade graduation. Graduates include: Beverly Anderson, Roger Anderson, James Carlson, Charles Devins, Nancy Dischinger, Linda Dorman, Fleurette Forsman, Sylvia Hafford, Alton Hedstrom, Michael Holmquist, Donna Jalbert, Warren Johnson, Mary Lou Lennon, Bruce Nelson, Larry Peterson and Susan Pude.
• The “Reflector “61” the senior class yearbook of Caribou High School has been dedicated to Mrs. Martha Haskell for “her help and guidance: in its preparation and to Verne Byers for “his patience, understanding and warm and outgoing friendliness.”
