Staff Writer
100 Years Ago: August 20, 1908
• Repairs were being made on the Clark block, a new concrete wall being put under a part of the buildings on Sweden Street.
• The water in the Aroostook River was unusually high for the time of year, having risen about a foot and a half over a two-week period.
• Rain fell for a straight week, including some pretty sharp showers accompanied by thunder and lightning.
• Fred Violette narrowly escaped having a terrible accident when the horse pulling the wagon he was about to get into suddenly took off on a wild run up Sweden Street.
• Laurence Hutchison entertained many of his young friends at his home, where they played many games and enjoyed refreshments.
• Mrs. W.E. Sincock gave a very pleasant dancing party in the P. of H. dining hall in honor of her guest, Miss May Sincock of Houlton.
75 Years Ago: August 17, 1933
• The Battery B. Boys, under the charge of Captain G.M. Carter have left for a two-week annual training at Camp Keyes in Augusta. The group was making the trip in the new army trucks recently assigned to the local battery for use in place of horses.
• When Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Cyr make up their minds to do something, they believe in doing it thoroughly. Advised that six of their nine children needed tonsils and adenoids operations, they sent Philip, Louise, Blanche, Stella Mae, Cecile and Irene across the street to the hospital and had the whole job done at once.
• More than 2,000 spectators gathered on the shore of Portage Lake over the weekend to watch the most thrilling exhibition of outboard motor boat racing every to be seen on local waters. Caribou’s Dr. F.O. Blossom won the 12 H. P. Class ,with a tremendous burst of speed.
50 Years Ago: August 14, 1958
• The Caribou Fire Department was called to Westmanland to extinguish a fire at the town hall, when it was thought a cigarette was dropped by a workman tearing the building down.
• A “Key to the Town” of Caribou was presented to Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Summerhill at a dinner held in their honor as the “Millionth Visitors” to Maine.
• The Bureau of Traffic Records, of the Maine State Police, reported that there had been 14 more vehicle accidents than at the same time the previous year.
• Major Moody E. Deaton, the sole survivor of a B-52 bomber crash, while attempting to land at Loring Air Force Base, was listed in good condition at the Chelsea Naval Hospital, Mass.
• Reno LeBrun, of Limestone and members of the Presque Isle watercolor society had their paintings on display at the Nylander Museum.
• Louis A. Borden, of Loring Air Force Base, was arrested and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor by keeping her out after 9 p.m.
25 Years Ago: August 17, 1983
• City Council member Pat Collins resigned in order to pursue a degree in art at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, the classes making it too difficult for him to fulfill his council duties.
• Glen Soucie, owner of the A-1 Driving School in Caribou, was appointed to the board of directors at a Chicago meeting for the North American Professional Driver Education Association.
• Caribou city Mayor, Roy Doak, signed a proclamation declaring the next year as Health and Fitness year in Caribou, encouraging citizens to participate in healthy activities.
• Michael Helton, son of Sgt. and Mrs. Gary Helton, was named winner of the Loring Air Force Base Library’s Galaxy Travelers Reading Club’s top reader for reading and reporting on over 30 books.
• Conrad Walton, of Caribou, was proclaimed a winner of the Northern Challenge, receiving an expense-paid trip to the Kingfield 10k and having his name engraved on the Northern Cup.
• Final plans for construction of Limestone’s downtown revitalization project were reviewed and approved by town officers.
