• The Caribou baseball team has added some new players during the past week. “Pop” Williams, who has a statewide reputation as a successful pitcher, will now wear a Caribou uniform.
• Merchants report an unusually small sale of fruit jars this season, due to the scarcity of berries.
• Frank Polland, the efficient and pleasant bookkeeper in Shaw and Mitton’s Grocery Store, is enjoying a couple of weeks’ vacation.
• A very pretty home wedding took place Tuesday forenoon at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Caughey on School Street when Miss Albena Caughey was united in marriage to Archibald Campbell.
• Charles B. Margesson resumed his position as cashier in the Caribou National Bank last Thursday, after spending a couple weeks’ vacation in Boston.
• Miss Clara Collins is the guest of Miss Margaret Purrington at Houlton.
75 Years Ago: August 16, 1934
• The Picking Wage Committee at the Aroostook Farm Bureau Field Day last week decided on a picking wage of 5 cents per barrel with board or six and one-half cents without board. This is the same wage as last year.
• Mrs. Matilda Collins sold one of her cows last week to Arthur Goulette.
• A new nut display cabinet is attracting much attention in the window of Gammon’s Drug Store. The cabinet contains a toaster under which the fresh nuts are toasted after being dipped in pure creamery butter. The display of toaster nuts of all kinds makes a toothsome display and the nuts are kept fresh from the heat of the toaster.
• A.S. Fairbanks, general manager of the skating rink is spending a few days at his cottage at Glassville, New Brunswick.
• Warren Baldwin has accepted a position as salesman in the Grange Shoe Store.
• The community dam in Limestone which has been under construction since early winter is completed. The gates were closed Saturday evening and the young people are now enjoying boating and swimming there.
50 Years Ago: August 13, 1959
• Chief of the Caribou Police Department for the last five years, Edward Tracy has resigned, effective Aug. 20.
• The Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Donald J. Minich, has resigned from his position, he announced this week. Mr. Minich, who succeeded William McLaughlin in the position several months ago, came to Caribou from Fort Fairfield where he held a like position.
• There is an emptiness about the Town Square these days. The Centennial Log Cabin, an eye catcher for residents and visitors alike from early May until a few days ago is gone. The new owner, Robert Ouellette, had it removed to a lot a few miles from Caribou on the Van Buren Road.
• Melvin Howe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Howe, flew home from Lackland, Texas, for a two-week furlough. He has been assigned to the Detachment Air Force Institution of Technology at Syracuse where he will be trained in the Russian language.
1959 — This is the Prospect St. building which will continue to house the Motor Vehicle Bureau office in Caribou. Reliable sources say the state has signed leases calling for a monthly rent of $200 to be paid to the building’s owner who have provided rent-free space to the bureau for the last 10 years.
• Caribou Blue Jays’ coach, John Rowe, received the Northern National Bank trophy for the championship of the Spudland Pony Baseball League. The presentation was made during the Blue Jays’ victory picnic at the Lions Picnic Ground.
• Vernon S. Brown and Roger Anderson are among 15 northern Aroostook youth who recently enlisted in the U.S. Army for three years.
25 Years Ago : August 15, 1984
• Joe Kittinger’s Balloon of Peace will be mechanically ready for the first solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by this Friday.
• Responding to employee health problems the Department of Human Services Administration has taken a positive step in trying to determine the cause of the problem at the downtown location.
• The J.C. Penney Store on Sweden Street has been remodeled and will be having a grand re-opening this weekend.
• Eight soldiers of the 152nd Field Artillery Battalion recently graduated from the NCO Basic course given at the Maine Military Academy, Camp Keyes, Augusta. Graduating from Caribou was Sgt. Michael Gagnon.
• A Friday afternoon derailment in Limestone sent three Bangor and Aroostook train cars off their tracks, damaging the three cars and tearing up a 50-foot section of track.
• Last weekend Asher Chambers traveled to Owls Head in his 1939 Nash to participate in a transportation rally co-sponsored by the Maine Obsolete Automobile League and the Owls Head Transportation Museum.
