100 Years Ago: June 29, 1911
• Albert Carmon has purchased a building lot of Rev. I.G. Cheney in that part of the village known as the fish hatchery grounds. Mr. Carmon intends to build a house there this summer.
• H.D. Collins is making some improvements on the west end of Collins Street, fixing the road which leads into his pasture.
• Fred T. Giberson is doing a most commendable act in having his residence on Collins Street moved back on a line with the other houses on the street.
• Allen Oak, who has been employed as a civil engineer with the boundary commission, is spending a few days at his home in this place.
• Charles Stewart is building a new barn on his farm on the Madawaska Road, having the framework already up. The new building will be hip-roofed unit and will afford ample accommodations for the storing of grain and hay.
75 Years Ago: June 25, 1936
• The final chapter in the school history of the Class of 1936 at Caribou High School, was written last evening, when its 113 members grouped on the stage to take part in and listen to the graduation exercises. The valedictory by Ruth Dow was a fitting climax to the exercises, her talk being delivered most effectively by means of a small microphone and was heard distinctly in the far corners of the hall.
• James Phair, of Limestone, who spent the winter in Spain, is expected at his home this week.
• Mr. and Mrs. Mack Bouchard are the proud parents of two graduates, Leon and Maurice, of the Caribou High School. Four sisters and one brother of the family of 14 have preceded them in graduating from the high school.
• Amber Holmquist of Westmanland and Annie Quist and Iris Johnson of New Sweden are graduating from Stockholm High School this week.
• Encouraging news to boys and girls of Caribou is seen in the fact that work will begin very soon on the swimming pool on the Caribou Stream at the A.V.R. trestle. The logs and stumps which are now embedded in the bottom of the pool will be dynamited out, a section of the dam removed to allow free flowage of water through in order to clean out the accumulation of mud and permit easier work on the bottom. A certain amount of excavation will probably be done to make the pool larger and better fitted for the large number of boys and girls to bathe in.
50 Years Ago: June 29, 1961
• The Caribou Fire Department won three awards in the 26th annual Muster of the Fire Chiefs’ Association of Aroostook last weekend at Fort Kent. Local firemen, headed by team captain Delman Doody, walked off with first place in the hose barrel rolling contest. They also placed second in the obstacle course event and capped second place in the parade. Other firemen taking part in the events were David DeMerchant, Arnold Gahagan Jr., Herschel McEwen, Assistant Chief Arnold Gahagan Sr., Gardner Sperry, Hazen Woods, Malen Doody, Charles Barnes, Lorien Nadeau, Albert Boutot and Arnold Lund.
• Three more names from Stockholm can be added to the Caribou High School graduating class. they are Melvin and Marvin Sodergren, the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sodergren and Marion Tall, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Axel Tall.
• Dr. Phil Turner is attending a two-day business seminar at the Schine Inn, Chicopee, Mass.. The seminar is conducted by the American Cynamid Co., for selected customers.
• The 152nd Field Artillery Association will hold its annual reunion on July 1 in Bangor. All men who ever served with the 152nd in peace or war are urged to attend. “We are especially anxious to get out the ‘old timers’ who served in the horse-drawn days,” said Bernard McLellan, president of the association. “In fact, we are calling this year’s reunion the ‘Year of the Horse,’ he added.
• Caribou’s new chief of police, Johan Doak is at his desk in the town police station. A sergeant until last Friday when he was promoted by the Town Council, Doak had been acting chief since the resignation of Emri Silvasi.
