Compiled By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer
115 Years Ago: April 22, 1897
• Potatoes are 80 cents per barrel today. On account of the bad condition of the roads leading to the village, no potatoes are being received.
• Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bouchard have moved into the dwelling on the corner of Main and High Streets where they have opened a boarding house.
• The ice started to run in the pond above the Aroostook River dam Wednesday afternoon at about 2 p.m. After about 40 rods of ice had gone over the dam the ice in the pond stopped running.
100 Years Ago: April 18, 1912
• Al Cochran has sold his house on Bridge Street to Joseph Solomon.
• Miss Avis Washburn returned from Boston Tuesday where she has been studying at the New England Conservatory of Music.
• Harry Stevens leaves tomorrow for his fifth car load of horses and will return the following Tuesday with one of his choice lots. If in the market for a horse it will pay you to see this load.
• By far the worst and most appalling disaster of the high seas was the wreck of the steamship Titanic on Monday morning off the coast of Newfoundland when only 868 lives were saved out of a total of 2,200.
• P.J. Powers has purchased of Dr. J. Cary the parcel of land between the Aroostook trust and Banking Co., and the photographic studio of G.L. Doe and expects to erect a two-story building this coming summer.
75 Years Ago: April 22, 1937
• Harold Hale has purchased the barbershop formerly conducted by Euclid Chaloult on Main Street in the Caribou Steam Laundry building.
• Members of the senior class at the high school who have already made their application and been accepted to colleges are the following: Juanita Hallowell and Ruth Beal, Bates College; Marie Gregory, Regis College; and Prudence Piper and Willetta McGrath, Colby College.
• Miss June Pike, senior at Caribou High School, upheld the reputation of her school for public speaking in an outstanding manner Thursday evening by winning the Spear Prize Speaking Contest at the Presque Isle High School. Her selection was “The Blessed Damosel.”
• Lieutenant John E. Marks of Presque Isle and Officer Harry K. Parks of the State Police were in Caribou last week making arrangements for instructing members of the schoolboy patrol who will function in the interests of safety for the boys and girls who are entering and leaving school. The campaign is being sponsored by the Caribou Lions Club and the members of the patrol will wear the new Sam Brown belts, which have been provided by the club. There are white belts with the insignia of the Lions Club on the front. The members of the patrol are Sidney Tibbetts, Edward Piper of the high school; Vaughan Hardaker, Donald Collins, Paul White and Paul Dyer of the High Street School; Roland Gagnon, Clarence Ouellette, Frederick Sirois and Harold Harris of the Sincock School; and Perley Bouchard, Robert Guerrette and Albert Blanchette of the Parochial School.
50 Years Ago: April 19, 1962
• Lynn Breedlove, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Breedlove of Caribou and an eighth-grade student at Caribou Junior High School, won the Aroostook County Spelling Championship at the county spelling bee in Presque Isle.
• Bertis Pratt, assistant principal and guidance director at Caribou High School, accompanied Richard Clark, Ted Pierson, David Greenier, Charles Mahoney, John Corey and James Mills of the Key Club to the New England District Key Club convention at the Statler Hotel in Hartford, Conn. Approximately 500 students from New England were present.
• Final scoring statistics in the local Adult Basketball League for this season found Brian Corrow of the Angels leading all scorers in total points and scoring average. Corrow, who played in all 14 of his team’s games, finished the season with a total of 259 points for an average of 18.5 points per game. Runner-up to Corrow in the scoring was Dale Robertson of the champion Teachers and in third place was John Ennis of the Angels. Reg Thompson of the Days team finished fourth with 183 points in 11 games.
• Pvt. Frederick G. Steeves, son of Mr. and Mrs. Burpee Steeves of Caribou has completed basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey. After being home for 10 days, he will be stationed at Fort Eustic, Virginia, where he will undergo training in marine operations and maintenance.
