115 Years Ago-July 13, 1898
• Miss Louise Levasseur, clerk in J. A. Clark’s dry good store, is enjoying her summer vacation.
• S. L. White, the druggist, made a business trip to Fort Fairfield Monday.
100 Years Ago-July 9, 1914
New Caribou trotting park attracts 8,000 — The attendance at the Park (July 3-4) was in the neighborhood of 8,000 people, certainly a good turn out and an auspicious opening for the town’s new trotting park, which was pronounced by thousands to be the handsomest in the state, the track the fastest (with the possible exception of Lewiston), and the view the grandest.
Limestone’s Ward on motorcycle tour — W. B. Ward, Jr., of Limestone left Wednesday morning for a four or five weeks’ tour on an Excelsior Twin Motorcycle, with Washington as his destination. Mr. Ward has the agency for Aroostook County for Excelsior Motorcycles, and this tour will show what these machines are for endurance and speed.
75 Years Ago-July 13, 1939
Caribou hosts 1939 Potato Blossom Festival — Plans are progressing rapidly to make the Potato Blossom Festival here on Thursday, July 27, one of the most outstanding events that has ever been held in connection with the potato industry in Maine. The festival will be an annual affair, rotating among the various towns.
Flower sales benefit Cary Hospital — The Girl Scout flower day held Saturday for the benefit of the Cary Memorial Hospital by Troop 3, netted $7.60 from sale of nearly 100 boutonnieres. Garden Club members who prepared the flowers were Mrs. N. M. Howard, Mrs. T. P. Richardson and Mrs. Ray Munson.
50 Years Ago-July 9, 1964
In the military — Navy Ensign James P. Doyle, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Doyle of Caribou, reported to the Naval Air Technical Training Center, Glynco, Ga., for the Early Warning Electronic Countermeasures Course. SFC E7 Floyd E. Holmes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Holmes, Limestone St., Caribou, is a member of a ROTC instruction group at the University of Maine.
Recycled baseball uniforms — The Caribou Recreation Department is in need of baseball uniforms for the teams in its summer baseball program for boys 7 through 16 years of age and is issuing a plea to all mothers and fathers to look in their closets, cellars and attics to see if they have any old uniforms that are of no further use to them.
25 Years Ago-July 12, 1989
Bald eagles return to County — A pair of American bald eagles has returned to Mattawamkeag Lake’s Norway Island and is in the process of rebuilding a nest that was destroyed last fall. Warden Investigator Terry Hunter noted the nest was one of only two historically active eagles’ nests in Aroostook County. He theorized the person who destroyed the it may have been looking for feathers as spikes were driven into the tree.
Ladner named arts director — The Caribou School System has recruited award-winning drama and music director Daniel “Dan” Ladner as the next director of the Caribou Performing Arts Center following a unanimous vote of the school board June 28. Ladner, a public school teacher for 25 years, will also fill a half-time English position teaching speech and theater.
