115 Years Ago- Feb. 17, 1897
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| File photo 1988 Caribou Public Works Department veterans Lester Porter, mechanic; Gilford Dufour, heavy equipment operator; and Garth Getchell, foreman, pose with the department’s new GMC dump truck and home-made body. |
• Approximately 150,000 landlocked salmon eggs were received at the Caribou fish hatchery Thursday afternoon of last week. They came from Sebago Lake.
• An organization which flourished at one time in Caribou was the King’s Sons and Daughters. Nearly two years ago when they disbanded and on a vote being taken, money in the treasury, something over $51, was to be paid to the Caribou Fire Department by treasurer Ferd Ladeau.
100 Years Ago-Feb. 13, 1913
• Long-standing liniment — The advertisement in this week’s issue of the Aroostook Republican reads: “Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment, used for 102 years for external and internal ills. A sure relief for coughs, colds, sore throat, cramps, cholera morbus, diarrhea, cuts, burns, bruises, sprains, etc. Cost: 25 cents and 50 cents everywhere. I. S. Johnson & Co., Boston, Mass.”
• Railroad strike spurs sabotage — The Bangor Commercial of Wednesday night says as follows. Between Sunday and Monday evening, no less than six deliberate attempts to wreck trains were discovered at different points in a stretch of 150 miles, a list of which is given below: West Sebois, Bodwin’s Siding, Houlton, Cary’s Mills, and track “K” in Caribou.
75 Years Ago-Feb. 17, 1938
• Starch factory open for business — The Colby Starch Factory, a cooperative potato starch factory organized by farmers and having its factory at Colby, northern Caribou, opened this morning to receive potatoes. The first farmer to deliver potatoes was Hjalmar Johnson, the second was Ralph Buzzell and the third Harve Olmstead.
• Air transport advantage — An illustration of the advantages of air transportation in Aroostook County was made evident recently when a phone call from Churchill Lake ordered automobile parts delivered. Placed early in the morning, the order was delivered at 1:30 p.m. By regular mail, it would have required a week to ten days.
50 Years Ago-Feb. 14, 1963
• Ski club formed — Caribou has a new ski club made up of members keenly interested in advancing the sport for young people, with the main objective of the club to sponsor a ski tow in a suitable area. Dr. Theodore Cummings was elected president, Philip Harmon was named vice-president and Mrs. H. D. Collins as secretary-treasurer.
• Thieves shortchanged — An entry into the premises of Caribou Cleaners on Record Street last Thursday netted thieves approximately $30 in cash, town police report. However, the intruders overlooked another $400 in the office as they looted the cash register.
25 Years Ago-Feb. 17, 1988
• Limestone citizens honored — Limestone residents Florence Young and Melridge Shelby were honored Feb. 6 at the Limestone Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club’s annual awards banquet as “citizens of the year.” Young is an office manager with Casco Northern Bank. After retiring from the Air Force in 1966, Shelby most recently retired from a civil service position at Loring Air Force Base in 1984.
• Aerobics on snowshoes — Want to do aerobics and snowshoeing in the same night and feel good about it? The staff of the Francis Malcolm Science Center in Easton invites all with an interest to join them on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. at the center.
