115 Years Ago: Feb. 25, 1897
• Potatoes are at 65 cents per barrel today.
• The average attendance at the Caribou High School during the past term was 110, the largest number yet recorded during the history of the school.
• One day recently 40 teams were hitched in the rear of Peter Sodergren’s store on Sweden Street.
100 Years Ago: Feb. 22, 1912
• Caribou Troop of Boy Scouts, under the leadership of Hon. Willis B. Hall, snow shoed to the farm of Newman Doyle on the Fort Fairfield Road Saturday last, where the Boy Scouts of Fort Fairfield met them and enjoyed a pleasant time together.
• H.O. Spencer had a carload of Overland automobiles arrive Saturday. It is understood that the entire carload is already sold.
• It is understood that H.P. Todd has purchased the new house of O.L. Atherton on Thomas Avenue.
• A very interesting event took place on Tuesday, Feb. 20, at high noon, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Caribou, when Miss Rachel Weatherhead, a popular and esteemed young lady of Gillespie, New Brunswick, was united in marriage to Mr. Lyman F. Getchell, a prominent resident of Limestone. Rev. H.H. Gillies performed the ceremony.
75 Years Ago: Feb. 25, 1937
• Blessed by perfect outdoor weather with temps holding just cool enough to keep the snow from melting during the first two days, but warming up to real late spring weather on Saturday, the Caribou Winter Carnival was successfully staged last week with every event exceeding expectations. It is estimated that on Saturday, a crowd of 15,000 people were present in Caribou to enjoy the various events, which were being staged over a wide area. Trains from all directions, including the special snow trains, were crowded to the limit with fun seekers who were not disappointed at what they were able to see.
• Miss Edith Knowlton entertained a number of her friends at a birthday party Wednesday evening of last week at her home on Limestone Street. The evening was spent in playing games and refreshments wee served. Those present were Maxine Powell, Marie Knowlton, Evelyn Sodergren, Madeline Peterson, Hazel Carlson, Philip Curry, Omar Wright, Gerrard Gould, Phillip Currier, Edward Knowlton and Harry Bradford.
• Richard Smith, Phil Jacobs and Allen Goud, students at the University of Maine, were in town for the winter carnival.
50 Years Ago: Feb. 22. 1962
• Melvin P. Howe, 29th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, has been promoted to Airman First Class. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Howe.
• Miss Betty Lou Bubar of Caribou, a senior student in the home economics department at Farmington State Teachers College, is on the dean’s list for the past semester.
• Mrs. Clarence Anderson of Stockholm has received word of the birth of a son to her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Sandstrom, of New Sweden. He was born at Cary Memorial Hospital, Feb. 15. He has been named Steven Frederick and weighed 7 pounds, 11ounces.
• Unless the town meeting members do the unexpected and appropriate more money than recommended by the budget committee, Caribou taxpayers are in for a long-needed “breather” this year. The budget committee recommendations, if adopted at the town meeting March 20, will result in a 26-mill rate compared to last year’s 28 mills.
