1912: Wagons make first trips down spring streets on April 4

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115 Years Ago: April 8, 1897

• The project of a roller mill at Caribou is a good one. This county should raise its own bread and stop sending so much money west for flour. Some of the crops of wheat raised here the past season were large — up to 50 bushels per acres being reported.

• P.L. Hardison, the surveyor who has been scaling lumber for parties north, has arrived home. He says the past winter has been an unusually favorable one for lumber operations.

• Potatoes are at 75 cents a barrel today.

• Frank Holmden, George Doe and Warren Ellingwood returned from a fishing tip to Square Lake last Thursday evening. They had good luck, catching 51 pounds of togue, the largest of which weighed five-and-a-quarter pounds.

100 Years Ago: April 4, 1912

• Wagons made their first appearance on our streets this spring on Saturday last.

• The sawmill of the Stockholm Lumber Co. has shut down until the spring drives are in.

• A very large number of ladies attended the opening and white sale at the Pattee Co.’s dry goods store Saturday last; in fact, the store was crowded throughout the day. In the afternoon refreshments of tea and fancy wafers were served.

• The dry goods store of Smiley and Brown had their grand spring opening on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week with large numbers of ladies attending each day. Wilkins orchestra was in attendance both days, discoursing most excellent music.

• Audrey C. Frost, formerly in the employ of the Caribou Water, Light and Power Co. but now living in Limestone, was in town Saturday. Mr. Frost has purchased the electric light plant at Limestone and already has over 60 customers.

75 Years Ago: April 8, 1937

• Pupils not absent a day from the High Street School, grade 1, Nina A. Wilder teacher are: Lendall Bradford, Betty Dyer, Donald Hardison, Harold McIntyre, Cleo Ross and Deloris Wyman. Those absent only one-half day were Donna Daigle and Phyllis Dodd.

• Miss Agnes Bouchard has a position in the office of the Aroostook Federation of Farmers.

•  Commencement honor parts for Caribou High School were announced at the senior class meeting held before the Easter recess. Miss Prudence Piper was named valedictorian; Miss Phyllis Knox, salutatorian; and Miss Willetta McGrath will deliver an address to the undergraduates.

• First Selectman George W. Harmon states that permission has been granted by the county commissioner to use space in the basement of the county courthouse on Sweden Street for lockup facilities for the town of Caribou. The condition of the old jail on Water Street is such that repairs and alterations there are not advisable, and the space at the courthouse is well adapted for the purpose.

• Mrs. Blanche Brissette has left her apartment in town to go back to her farm on the Brissette Road.

50 Years Ago: April 5, 1962

• Caribou High School Class of 1963 will present its annual Junior Exhibition under the direction of Richard Pratt on April 12, in the school auditorium. The program will include the following speakers. Letha Hedstrom, “The White Cliffs” by Alice Duer Miller; Richard Haines, “Perfect Forty-Two” by F. Ryerson and C. Clements; Cindy Ward, “Enoch Arden” by Alfred Tennyson; George Wark, “Exit the Big Bad Wolf” by Luella McMahon; Sharon Dow, “The Pied Piper of Hamlin,” by Robert Browning. Also, James Mills, “How to Woo and Win a Woman” by Jack Alan; Charleen Cote, “Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight,” by Rosa Thorpe; Phillip Hale, “Goober’s Black-eyed Peas” by Darrell Kelley; Hope Getchell, “Interim,” by Edna St. Vincent Millay; and Gary Sinclair, “The Yanks Are Coming,” by Cantor and Freedman.

• The Caribou Police Department will have two new cars this year, with Northern Sales and Service the successful bidder. After trade-in, the cars will cost the town $1,312 apiece with federal tax of $200 on each being returned to the municipal treasury.