1938: Air Show coming to Caribou

12 years ago

115 Years Ago- May 12, 1897

• Potatoes have taken a tumble in the market and are being purchased for $1.50 per barrel today, where a week ago $2.20 was paid.
• W. H. Theriault, the liveryman, had his street sprinkler out for the first time this season. The dust had been flying in clouds for several days and the services of the sprinkler were appreciated by our citizens.

100 Years Ago-May 8, 1913

• Graduation attire — At the training school (New Sweden) this year, a new scheme is being tried in preparation for graduation of grammar school girls. Feeling graduation expenses have been assuming “serious proportions” as young people struggle to equal or excel each other in dress and accessories, the principal has proposed all graduating girls will make their own dresses, all of the same material and designed practically of the same pattern, the expenses of which will not exceed one dollar each.
• Caribou new construction — Another new building is going up on Wilder Street. Mr. Merritt of Caribou has purchased a lot and is putting up a double tenement. Mr. Kearney has begun the building of a house on a lot recently purchased on Hines Street.

75 Years Ago-May 12, 1938

• Air Show planned for Caribou — Plans are underway by the Caribou Lions Club to sponsor a special three-day air meet at the Caribou Municipal Airport on May 28-30. Attractions will include races, stunting, parachute jumping, bomb dropping, and a display of latest models in the airplane industry.
• Air Mail Week observed — To commemorate the 20th anniversary of air mail, May 15-21 has been designated as National Air Mail Week. The Caribou Chamber of Commerce has been making a study of time save using air mail and notes a letter sent to Los Angeles, Calif. took 94 hours by regular mail and only 48 hours by air.

50 Years Ago-May 9, 1963

• Sugar beet quota sought — An all out united effort is now underway in Maine to secure a sugar beet quota for 1963 with a goal of 250 acres planted in the next few weeks. The decision was made to move forward with this program when a Sugar Beet Committee member flew to Washington D. C. to determine that all of the other competing areas were raising between 250 and 300 acres of beets this summer.
• Turner heads Red Cross — Phillip Turner of Caribou was elected president of the board of the Aroostook Valley Chapter of American Red Cross at the annual meeting held at the Universalist Unitarian Church, with Mrs. Robert Breedlove elected secretary and treasurer.

25 Years Ago-May 12, 1988

• Women in the service — Army Private Susan A. Michaud, daughter of Nancy St. Pierre and stepdaughter of Gerald St. Pierre of Caribou completed basic training at Fort McLellan, Ala. Spec. 4 Susan L. (Thorndike) Hartsgrove has completed the U.S. Army primary leadership course; she is the daughter of James and Maxine Thorndike of Fort Fairfield. Airman Heather M. Tribble, daughter of Chief Master Sgt. Samuel and Gillian Tribble of Loring Air Force Base has graduated from ground communications radio specialist course; she is a 1987 graduate of Limestone High School.