100 YEARS AGO: Jan. 12, 1911
• Misses Gertrude Rouse and Lillian Calkins skated from Grimes on the Aroostook River and spent the afternoon with Mrs. Stewart Stairs Wednesday.
• Miss Katie Pelkey has accepted a position as clerk in the Clark-Jerrard drygoods store.
• Miss Blanche Farrington left Tuesday for Waterville to resume her studies at Colby College.
• A very pretty wedding was solemnized Monday morning at nine o’clock at the Church of the Holy Rosary, when Miss Sara, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Trusty was united in marriage by Rev. Fr. Hogan to Fred M. Hawkes of Houlton. The bridesmaid was Miss Jennie Obey while the groom was attended by John Trusty, a brother of the bride. Miss Mamie Trusty, a sister of the bride, played the wedding march from Faust.
• The price of potatoes still remains unchanged at 80 cents per barrel.
• It was 16 years ago last week that the first train on the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad made its appearance in Caribou — the signal for the opening of a new era of prosperity for the town. Only three of the men then employed on trains coming to Caribou are still making their usual run — M.J. Haggerty and Charles Potter, conductors; and George Cleary, engineer.
• H.D. Collins has decided to rebuild his sawmill on the site of the old one which burned two weeks ago. This indeed, is good news for the public as considerable custom sawing was done at this mill.
75 YEARS AGO: Jan. 9, 1936
• Limestone will usher in the first of the Aroostook winter carnivals on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 24-25. The ice-racing committee, Ed Foster and Waldo Burgess, have arranged one of the biggest ice-racing attractions in Aroostook with over 20 horses taking part already.
• In discussing the plans for the coming Caribou Winter Carnival which will take place Feb. 20-22, enthusiasm ran high as the possibilities for a great outdoor show developed. Not only will there be a full program of the usual winter carnival events, such as skiing, skating, snowshoeing, hockey, etc., but the program for horse racing will bring to this town the best horse flesh in this section of the state for contests which will be well worth watching.
• Miss Jean Doyle left Saturday for Boston where she will enter Peter Bent Brigham Hospital training school for nurses.
• The neighbors on the West Road in New Sweden watched the old year out and the new year in at the home of the Wickstrom brothers. This is an annual event as Oscar Wickstrom’s Jan. 1 birthday is always observed in this way.
50 YEARS AGO: Jan. 12 , 1961
• Mrs. Stuart V. Currier entertained at a skiing party honoring her son, Christopher on his ninth birthday. Guests were Rodney Horton, Bruce Larkin, Mark Anderson, Jack Card, Philip Dyer and Paul Manzer.
• Among those from town attending the Governor’s Inaugural Ball in Augusta were Rep. and Mrs. Sam Albair, County Attorney and Mrs. Ferris Freme; Dr. and Mrs. Philip Turner and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred McLean.
• Navy Lt. John S. Jones, of Caribou, is serving with Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Eight aboard the anti-submarine warfare support aircraft carrier U.S.S. Bennington, operating with the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific.
• Contests have been assured in three of four Caribou districts in the Jan. 23 representative Government election. Altogether there are 32 candidates with 28 seats to be filled for three-year terms. Only District 2 has the minimum number of candidates, seven. In addition to the 28 who will be elected, each district has 14 members with seven still having two years to serve and seven one year.
• Mary Mae Deprey, 17, got the nod from the judges and was crowned the 1961 Junior Miss Caribou during the recent competition sponsored by the Caribou Key Club. Deprey will compete with other state beauties in the Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsored Jr. Miss Maine competition, to be held at the Hotel Caribou, Jan. 28.