115 Years Ago: Jan. 14, 1897
• R.N.L. Brown who has been working in F.E. Handy’s store on Sweden Street, is now employed in C.P. Hussey’s store.
• The potato market is improving. Seventy cents per barrel is the price today.
• Mrs. Archie St. Peter gave birth to a fine baby girl Wednesday. The little miss weighed 9 and three-quarter pounds.
• Ray C. Gary has charge of the bowling alleys during the absence of B.T. Parsons.
100 Years Ago: Jan. 11, 1912
• James Doughty and Ray Harmon of Limestone have gone to Boston on potato cars.
• John Ringdahl, one of New Sweden’s smart business men, has his mill in operation with a full crew of men. He has lots of work on hand. Many of the Jemtland people are hauling their logs here to be carved. Mr. Ringdahl has a big contract from a concern in Massachusetts, for large amount of lumber.
• Train service has been badly crippled this week owing to the heavy storms.
• There was a pleasant social dance in the opera house Wednesday night, it being the second in the course of assemblies.
• According to Caribou selectmen several complaints have been made relative to teams driving without bells. Under the Revised Statues the law calls for three or more bells to be fastened to one of the foremost horses, drawing teams on snow.
75 Years Ago: Jan. 14, 1937
• The ninth annual two-day winter carnival, which begins at Limestone on Friday will open the season for the Aroostook County Carnivals.
• Walter Greenier has installed equipment to manufacture tire chains to order at this filling station at the corner of Vaughan Avenue and is doing a thriving business in the manufacture of new chains and replacing cross links. The condition of the roads this winter so far has been very hard on the creepers. While they are necessary in the towns, the bare surface of the state roads soon wears cross pieces.
• There was plenty of excitement in Limestone Tuesday when the big racing program put on there against horses from Van Buren. Sassie Marie, owned by Finnemore and driven by Foster of Limestone, lost a second heat after losing a shoe at the start and falling on the ice at the finish. The horse slid over 100 feet on the ice with the sulky on top of her. Neither the driver nor the horse was injured.
• Priscilla Beaulieu, Doris Beaulieu and Loraine Pelletier have returned to Mount Merci Academy after spending a two-week vacation in town with their parents.
• Stanley Norbeck of Woodland and Gilbert Oslund of Westmanland left Caribou this noon for Nashville, Tenn., where they will attend the Nashville Automobile College for a 10-week course in auto repairing, including both auto and diesel engines.
50 Years Ago: Jan. 11,1962
• Tommy Cox who spent the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Cox, has returned to the Naval Intelligence School in Washington, D.C.
• A special town meeting will be held at the high school on Jan. 14, to decide whether to continue with the selectman/town manager form of government in Stockholm.
• Theodore B. Tornquist was elected treasurer of the Aroostook Trust Company by board members at the annual meeting.
• The Buttercup Brownie Troop met with leaders Mrs. Lorena Wakem and Mrs. Nora Hitchings at the K. of C. Hall. An election was held with Christina Gregory, chairman; Jinny Dow, secretary; and Judy Beaulieu, treasurer. The flag ceremony was held and games were played. Brownies present were Sylvia Anderson, Jean Marie Wakem, Susie Wakem, Colleen Cote, Gail Ouellette, Christina Gregory, Peggy Albair, Colleen Bouchard, Jinny Dow and Judy Beaulieu.
• Friday Jan. 12 has been selected as the date for the organizational meeting of a new group in Caribou to be known as Friends of Liberty. Though new to Caribou, similar groups have been formed in many communities all over the country for the purpose of supporting and extending the use of the library. Founded in 1887, for several years the Caribou Public Library maintained its services in connection with a stationery store. In 1911 it moved into a building of its own on a beautiful lot on High Street. This past year the library observed the 50th anniversary of its occupation of this building and the trustees feel that the time is now ripe for an expansion of the facilities and the usefulness of the library.
