100 YEARS AGO: Feb. 23, 1911
• Charles E. Varnum, who has for some time been engaged in the selling of pure spring water for drinking purposes, says the demand is steadily increasing: he now sells about 400 gallons weekly.
• The Misses Bertha Powers and Eva Dahlstrom have been the guests of Miss Powers’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Corydon Powers in Augusta. Miss Dahlstrom has returned home, but Miss Powers, who was in attendance at the Governor’s Ball on Tuesday evening, will remain a short time longer.
• W.P. Hamilton, Esq. has moved his law office from the rooms over B.O. Noyes’ Jewelry Store into the office over the national bank.
• Miss Ethel Maria Currier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N.B. Currier, and Waldo Osgood Lowney, two of Caribou’s justly popular young people, were married in Woodstock, N.B. on Wednesday of this week, in the presence of the groom’s parents and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hawkes of Houlton.
• Miss Maude Lovely has resigned her position in the Merchants’ Trust & Banking Co. in Presque Isle and will resume her former position with Shaw & Mitton.
75 YEARS AGO: Feb. 20, 1936
• To enable employees of the potato houses to witness the carnival events and particularly the horse racing Saturday afternoon, all proprietors of potato houses have agreed to close their houses for all day Saturday and farmers are hereby notified not to haul potatoes on that day as they will find no one to take them.
• One stunt which will be added to the Winter Carnival program is the result of practice Sunday afternoon is ski-joring behind a motorcycle. The motorcycle will be driven by Irvine Gagne with Burnham Peterson on the skis. In connection with this ski-joring there will be a demonstration of ski jumping with the motorcycle going at 40 miles per hour and the skier going over an artificial jump in the middle of the street.
• The patrons of one famous restaurant in New York City are enjoying good Caribou spuds according to the testimony of Maynard Miller, who is in New York at the present time. Passing this restaurant on Fifth Avenue the other day, he saw a truckload of peck sacks bearing the trademark of Amos Fletcher, Caribou, being unloaded.
• Mrs. A.C. Leighton and Miss Arlene Leighton of Limestone were shopping in Caribou on Saturday.
• The tropical gardens of the Plymouth Congregational Church, Coconut Grove, Miami, were the setting on Feb. 11 for the wedding of Miss Phyllis Leoma Webber, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alburney E. Webber of Bangor and H. Parker Frost, son of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Frost of Caribou.
50 YEARS AGO: Feb. 23, 1961
• Wilfred Bell, president of the Caribou Board of Trade, said that Caribou’s first George Washington’s Birthday sales promotion had been a success. Mr. Bell said the, “Buy George” promotion drew hundreds of outside shoppers as well as throngs of local buyers to Caribou stores.
• Thirteen senior students at Caribou High School were tapped and inducted into the National Honor Society at the asembly held just prior to vacation week. Chosen for this high honor were Cecile Bosse, Barbara Grant, Dorothy Sleeper, Janice Sweik, Marion Tall, Linda White, Edwina Wilcox, Nancy Thibodeau, Ronald Belyea, Ronald Brown, David Lyon, Jerry White and Ronald Harmon.
• Dr. Phillip B. Turner has been named manager of the Aroostook Federation of Farmers in Caribou. The firm operates two fertilizer plants, one in Caribou and the other at Fort Kent.
• Mr. and Mrs. Fred Norton are on a three-weeks’ vacation trip which will include the Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
• Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Johnson motored to Lewiston to attend the capping ceremony of their daughter, Jacqueline, at St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing.