100 Years Ago-Jan. 29, 1914
• News from Crouseville — J. Wilmot Crouse, wholesale meat dealer and butcher supplies the mill company in Ashland and some private parties in that town, as well as Herschell Collins’ camp and other lumbermen. Gould Crouse is still cutting ice and will supply all parties who want their ice cheaper than they ever got it before.. Marshall Crouse will scale the lumber and Winfield Crouse will commence sawing at his mill in a few days.
• Good work by firemen — Working heroically and with grim determination, the Caribou fire department conquered a stubborn midnight blaze Wednesday, confining the flames to two wooden buildings and preventing the Clark block from catching fire. They were somewhat handicapped at first by a frozen hydrant. At present writing, individual losses are as follows: A. V. Goud bookstore and news stand and Miss Evelyn Smith millinery shop, both total loss; and B. O. Noyes, jewelry, most of stock saved with more or less breakage from handling. Again it was demonstrated that we need a modern alarm system, as but few heard the ringing of the bell.
75 Years Ago-Feb. 2, 1939
• A weather bureau for Caribou — The Weather Bureau and the Civil Aeronautics Authority have announced that Federal budget officials have approved plans for three complete weather bureau stations in Maine with teletype service, to be located in Portland, Bangor and Caribou. The new stations will give 24 hour service with hourly reporting manned by four or five observers specially trained and appointed from the civil service rolls. It is expected that the Caribou station will be in operation by 1940.
• Fly to Boston: only $20 — The advertisement from Boston-Maine Airways reads: Fly to Boston in 4 hours, 50 minutes for only $20.40, or $36.80 round trip. Convenient schedules every weekday — warm, well-ventilated modern transport planes. Also daily service: Caribou to Houlton, Millinocket, Bangor, Augusta, Lewiston-Auburn, Portland and New York.
50 Years Ago-Jan. 30 1964
• Caribou first for voting machines — If the Town Council wins approval of the necessary appropriation, Caribou will probably be the first community in Aroostook to install voting machines. The council is recommending the purchase of nine voting machines at a cost of $1,752 each to be financed over a period of four years.
• Today’s television lineup — Today’s afternoon and evening television lineup from Channel 2, WLBZ in Bangor includes: General Hospital, The Price is Right, Let’s Make a Deal, The Doctors, The Loretta Young Show, Match Game, Superman, Trailmaster, Weather/Sports/News, Combat, Dr. Kildaire, Hazel, Mystery Theater, 11 p.m. News and the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
25 Years Ago-Feb. 1, 1989
• ‘Pie in the eye’ for a good cause — United Way of Aroostook, in cooperation with WAGM-TV, has scheduled its seventh annual telethon tonight as the climax to the 1988-89 United Way campaign. Della Shaw, general campaign chairwoman, has set a goal of $10,000 for the two-hour event. Co-hosts Shaw and Sam Collins have assembled a unique pie panel with a $1,000 price put on the heads of John Logan, Sue Bernard, Rene Clukey and Cissy Libby. “Wouldn’t they look great with pie in their eye?” said Shaw.
• Maine’s Swedish Colony Inc. formed — A new organization, Maine’s Swedish Colony Inc., was formed in New Sweden recently for the purpose of selecting, acquiring, restoring and preserving historic buildings. Top priority will be given to restoration of the Lars Noak Blacksmith Shop building, donated by the New Sweden Historical Society, and the Noak Larsson/George Ostlund log home voted to acquire, and if the Maine Historic Preservation Commission grants the matching funds.
