115 Years Ago: June 10, 1897
• It is expected that the water wheel at the dam will be furnishing power for electric lights the latter part of this week. The lights will then burn all night.
• Salmon were seen jumping at the dam Tuesday of this week.
• Olof O. Nylander of this town has received a letter from Hugh B. Newton of Ceylon, India, containing a request for Aroostook shells. The letter was dated May 3, 1897 and was a month and three days making the journey to Aroostook. Mr. Nylander sent a lot of Aroostook shells to Africa last year.
• Mrs. M.N. Lowney has fitted up her ice cream parlor in a very neat manner.
100 Years Ago: June 6, 1912
• Through the instrumentality of Hon. Willis B. Hall a cannon ball from the ill-fated battleship Maine is now on permanent exhibition at the Caribou Library.
• Miss Bessie Kelley is clerking in H.O. Spencer’s jewelry store.
• Miss Rachel Felch, who is a student at Boston University, is at home for the summer vacation.
• It is understood that Joseph Waken intends to build a new concrete block on Water Street this summer.
75 Years Ago: June 10, 1937
• The Aroostook County Federal Savings & Loan Association at their directors’ meeting on June 4, declared a semi-annual dividend of $2 per share payable July 1937.
• The Aroostook County Firemen’s Muster was held at Houlton yesterday. The Caribou Fire Department had 18 men present. Other departments of the County and from Woodstock, N.B. were also here — that is until the contest got under way — then it appeared that the Caribou smoke-eaters not only were there, but “all there” as well. Out of the six contests, they took three first place; two seconds and a third. Chief Mockler was presented with a handsome cup as winner of the muster, which will be placed on exhibition at the fire station and the boys expect to have several more to add to the collection in years to come.
• Miss Lona Denton, daughter of Ludlow A. Denton, received a bachelor of arts degree from Bates College at the 71st annual commencement held June 14.
• The 50th anniversary of the Caribou High School Class of 1887 (the first graduating class) is to be celebrated by the members of the alumni on June 22, with a banquet and dance. Dr. W.E. Sincock and N.R. Doyle will tell of the advancement of Caribou High School, as they were the first two graduates of the school in 1887.
• Miss Edith Sheryl Kelley, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Kelley and Kenneth Ouellette, son of Mrs. Tressa Ouellette of town, were united in marriage at the home of the bride Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m., the ceremony being performed by Rev. John R. MacGorman of the United Baptist Church.
50 Years Ago: June 7, 1962
• Ladene Everett is “Miss Caribou, 1962.” She was crowned Monday night after getting the nod from the judges in the second annual Miss Caribou Pageant sponsored by the chamber of commerce. Runner-up to Miss Everett was the Caribou Youth Center’s candidate, Miss Bertha Doody and second runner-up was Miss Karen Espling sponsored by Graves’ Red and White.
• Mrs. Alma Sleeper motored to Boston to return home with her daughter, Dorothy Ann, who has been attending Katherine Gibbs’ School.
• James J. Close and Ronald A. Poitras, both of Caribou, were among 110 graduating students at Maine Central Institute.
• Miss Karen Johnson is graduating June 7, from the Middlesex Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Middlesex, Conn.
• The graduating class of Stockholm High School plans a trip to Andover for supper Thursday evening.
