• The following young ladies camped at Thomaston on the Aroostook River last Thursday night: Minnie McNelly, Maud Collins, Eva Washburn, May Collins and Edna Thomas.
• O.T. Pierson was among those who attended the Houlton-Caribou game at Houlton last Friday, making the trip with a party of his friends in his automobile and covering the distance in two and one-half hours.
• The Misses Maude Lovely and Gertrude Gahagan started Saturday for Temisquata, where they will be guests of Miss Lou Hayes for a week.
• Harry Mills returned Saturday from a short trip to Boston.
• Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Farrel and son John, Mr. an d Mrs. C.F. Parsons and Mr. and Mrs. E.J. Briggs made an automobile trip to Grand Falls Saturday and attended the races.
• Active work on the building of the new Holy Rosary Catholic Church began this week with the laying of the service main for water and sewer to the lot on Vaughn Street.
75 Years Ago: August 9, 1934
• Just 42 days after the fire which destroyed the caribou Steam Laundry, a new building has been built and operations started in the new plant, built on the foundation of the old structure on South Main Street. M.L. Hutchinson, proprietor of the laundry states that he is ready to care for his customers as efficiently as before.
• Battery B, 152nd Field Artillery will, in common with all other units of this regiment, journey next Saturday to camp Keys in Augusta, for their annual two-weeks outing. The entire personnel of Battery B is expected to go and will travel by motor as they did last year.
• Mrs. William Anderson and son, Billy, have returned home after a two-week visit in Boston.
• Mr. and Mrs. Ralph T. Scott and son Sheldon, are spending their vacation at Grand Manan, N.B.
• Mr. and Mrs. Murray Mockler and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mockler took Ronald Mockler, who had spent the weekend in town, back to the CCC Camp at Princeton on Sunday. They also visited Calais and Red Beach.
• The Caribou fire station is much improved by the application of a coat of paint to the exterior as well as the interior. A new sign over the door has also been added.
50 Years Ago: August 6, 1959
• Last weeks attendance at Caribou’s swimming pool was 4,925 — a weekly record.
• Town Council this week discussed a new water tower for the town and the possibility of a new motor vehicle storage building for the national guard.
• Bill Helfenstein, Ronald Harmon and Bearce Carter caught a ring-necked pheasant on Coolidge Avenue Monday morning and released it out on the Harmon farm.
• Rowena Skidgel, Louise McDougal and Gretchen Murphy were in Bangor on a business and shopping trip.
• Mrs.Alma Yule and Mrs. Ruth Andrews called on Mr. and Mrs. Jerome McLaughlin in Limestone recently.
• Teddy Pierson, son of Mr. and Mrs. O.P. Pierson is attending Camp Graylag, Bob Cousy’s camp for boys in Pittsfield, H.H. for a month.
