100 Years Ago: Aug. 4, 1909
• At the Methodist parsonage, July 26, Walter C. Rafford and Miss Maude Crawford, both of Caribou, were united in the bonds of matrimony by the Rev. J.H. Gray.
• Caribou can boast of four young ladies who are not afraid of a 10-mile walk as is evident by the fact that the Misses Eva Washburn, Minnie McNelly, Corinna Barrett and Evelyn Hussey walked to Fort Fairfield last Saturday, making the trip in good time and returning on the night train.
• Lee Hardison returned this week from Portland, coming back in a new Mitchell automobile for P.L. Hardison.
• Mrs. E.J. Tornquist of Park Street, has growing in her house a lemon tree on which, as is customary of this kind of fruit, are be found blossoms, green and ripe fruit. One of the lemons has grown to an enormous size being 10-inches in circumference, the small way and is still growing
• Miss Violet Shaw is spending a few days in Easton, with her aunt, Mrs. C.W. Richardson.
75 Years Ago: Aug. 1, 1935
• Caribou citizens will be gratified to learn that definite work under FRA funds is to begin Friday morning on Teague Park, when a crew of 10 men with one team of horses will be occupied for the month of August, at least putting the plot of land into shape.
• Local Rotary members traveled to Presque Isle Monday noon to hear guest speaker Dr. W.J. Hinton, of the Bank of England, London.
• The Caribou mail is now being transported back and forth to the station and parcel post delivered in a brand new V-8 truck especially built for the purpose. The truck is enclosed, with a rear entrance and makes a fine appearance. This truck is owned by Harold Tornquist and rented by the Post Office Department.
• A new variety of orchid was discovered by O.O. Nylander, Caribou’s famous geologist and naturalist. The new variety was discovered by him the first of the month on a woods road on the west of Green Mountain.
• According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, potato prices in Maine on June 15, reached the lowest point in 83 years — or since 1852 when the department began to record farm commodity prices.
50 Years Ago: Aug. 4, 1960
• Darrell F. Harmon, seaman U.S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace E. Harmon of Caribou is serving aboard the destroyer USS Soley, operating off the Atlantic Coast.
• Hayes Gahagan and Richard Hallowell Jr., both of Caribou will be leaving today to join the John W. Manchester Maine Agricultural Leaders’ Goodwill Farm Inspection tour of Western Europe.
• The Class of 1950 at Caribou High School held their 10th reunion at the Hotel Caribou with 97 members and guests attending.
• Mr. and Mrs. Asher Chambers of Caribou recently returned from a 1-day tour of the state in their 1915 Model “T” Roadster in which they traveled 600 miles.
• The J.C. Penney Co. brought to a close an era of more than 34 years of doing business strictly on a cash and carry basis when charge accounts were introduced at the local store on Monday.
