115 Years Ago: Feb. 18, 1897
• Potatoes are at 70 cents per barrel today.
• Within a few weeks of spring and only snow enough for sleighing is something unusual in Aroostook. It is said that there is only one foot of snow in the woods north.
• Mrs. N.M. Lowney now holds the ladies’ record at bowling in Caribou, having made 158 in a game played Wednesday afternoon.
• During the past three months H.A. Edwards has shipped more than 85,000 railroad ties.
100 Years Ago: Feb. 15, 1912
• Fred Brown, of the firm Smiley and Brown, left Monday for the Boston and New York markets to purchase spring and summer dry and fancy goods.
• Wednesday was St. Valentine’s Day and there was an unusually large number sold in Caribou this year, one or two dealers closing out their entire stock.
• Another “worse day of the winter” arrived last Saturday; and we think that the day mentioned was really the worst yet. Not so cold, by the thermometers some, but such a gale — 50 miles an hour if an inch, and with all the penetrating qualities of a rifle ball from one of the latest high explosive guns.
• One of our correspondents reports that crows have returned from their southern trip. Let’s see, what is this a sign of — an early spring or a rainstorm July Fourth?
• Fred Anderson returned last week from Providence, Rhode Island, where he had been taking what might be called a post-graduate course in automobile construction, having been for nearly two months in the factory of the Maxwell automobile works and learning the various mechanical principles and assembling of motor-driven cars.
75 years Ago: Feb. 18, 1937
• Sam Ouellette of Milo was the winner in the Bangor to Caribou Marathon Ski Race, crossing the finish line at 1:02 p.m. this afternoon with a total elapsed time of 33 hours and 40 miles. Twenty-one minutes later Bob Johnson, former Marathon champion, finished with Bondeson, Ostlund, Nute and Stadig following in that order.
• The children in grade three at Stockholm who made the honor roll for this last ranking period are: Lionel Plourde, Vivian Stedt, Gerald Hackett, Alcide Thibodeau, Clarence Bouchard and Lawrence Paquin.
• James A. Kinney tells the Republican that he has in his possession a pair of mittens that were made 57 years ago by his wife, Cordelia Lovely Kinney. They are the driving type of mittens and Mr. Kinney believes that they are the oldest pair of mittens in this section.
• New Sweden staged its fifth annual winter carnival in a ‘bang up fashion’ at that little town last Saturday. The full day of events showed very keen competition due to excellent snow conditions and 500 carnival enthusiasts came to town from all over the county.
• A series of boxing bouts are to be put on at the P. of H. Opera House on the afternoons of Feb. 18-19. Thursday’s main bout brings together Louis Michaud of this town and Irish Nolan of Perth.
50 Years Ago: Feb. 15, 1962
• Eight members of the senior class at Caribou High School were honored at a special assembly Thursday morning when they were chosen to become members of the National Honor Society. Chosen by the faculty for character, leadership, scholarship and service were Betty Armstrong, Bertha Doody, Linda Mason, Nancy Chase, Donella Smith, Patrick St. Peter, Reginald Dyer and David Greenier.
• Richard Pratt as director has announced that 10 students from the Junior Class of Caribou High School have been chosen as participants of the annual Junior Exhibition to be presented in April. Those chosen are: Charlene Cote, Sharon Dow, Hope Getchell, Richard Haines, Philip Hale, Leatha Hedstrom, James Mills, Gary Sinclair, Cynthia Ward and George Wark.
• The Caribou Vikings (Huntermen) can count on one thing when they travel to Bangor next week — plenty of loud backing. That there will be nothing lonesome about their appearance in the Bangor Auditorium goes without saying. The local schools will be closed and along with the high school band, cheerleaders and majorettes, there will be well-wishers and cheering supporters in the large building, which will house 8,000.
• Eldon Thibodeau, seaman apprentice, United States Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hector Thibodeau of Caribou, is serving with Fighter Squadron 174 at the Naval Air Station, Cecil Field, Fla. The mission of the unit is to provide fighter pilots to all East Coast squadrons using the F8U “Crusader” aircraft.
