100 Years Ago: Sept. 14, 1911
• Misses Avis Washburn and Louise Donnelly left Saturday for Boston, where they will study at the New England Conservatory of Music.
• Some of our farmers have finished digging potatoes while others have hardly more than begun. There seems to be a great difference in the yield per acres as reported, the lowest being 40 barrels per acres, while several farmers report getting 100, and one or two claim as high as 140 barrels. The stock is of excellent quality with but few small ones.
• Miss Ethel Lovely, who has been teaching music in the Greenville public school and who has had a class of piano pupils there during the summer months, has resigned the former position and will remain in town.
• Hiram Fletcher and son Amos, returned home Friday from a trip to Portland and other places.
• Albert Belyea, who has been spending several weeks at his home in this place, returned to Kent’s Hill Monday where he will resume his studies.
75 Years Ago: Sept. 10, 1936
• The Aroostook County Federal Loan and Savings Association continues to progress in the amount of business transacted along the line of activity for which is was organized. At the present time the Association has granted 22 loans and has 10 more under consideration. This fact is in evidence of the fact that renewed interest is being taken in building repairing and refinancing of homes and business property. This is in itself an indication prosperity is returning to The County.
• Miss Marion MacElwain and Miss Arlene Morgan have formed a partnership and expect to open next week a beauty parlor in the quarters under the Caribou Grange Store, formerly occupied by A.A. Brittain.
• Viola Anderson of New Sweden has entered the training school of the Cary Memorial Hospital.
• Miss Blanche Farrington, head of the Latin department and dean of girls at Caribou High School, is the newly elected president of the Caribou Business and Professional Women’s Club.
50 Years Ago: Sept. 14, 1961
• The central Aroostook radio listener has not been changed to one or even two stations for some time. Three outlets in the area have given him choice, morning afternoon and night. Now, it is said the one-channel television home is gradually disappearing from the scene. Caribou TV Inc. has opened the door to the whole wide world of television programming for those who desire its service. The new company, set up last year, has snaked its cables into 33 Caribou streets and eventually will cover the entire urban area. Five channels are now available to viewers. Coming into local homes are programs from WABI, Bangor, WAGM, Presque Isle, WLBZ, Bangor, CJSJ, Saint John and CKCW, Moncton. Caribou TV Inc. provides the viewer with “choice and variety” a spokesman for the company said. “A one-channel diet is something of the past.”
• The Young Beauty Shoppe opened its doors to the women of the Caribou area this week. The new salon, under the ownership of Mrs. Iris Young, has been recently redecorated with modern equipment. Located at 478 Main Street, on the square in Caribou, the salon will specialize in L’Oreal hair tinting and coloring. Mrs. Young, a Caribou native, attended the Valdez Hair Designing School in Saratoga, Florida and the Eastern Academy in Bangor.
• Cedric Porter, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Caribou Public Library, has announced that Mrs. Margaret D. Butterfield has been appointed assistant librarian.
• Ed Walsh, who received a master of arts degree in the field of guidance from Boston University this summer, is leaving the Caribou teaching and basketball coaching scene. Walsh has accepted a position as guidance counselor at Danbury (Conn.) High School. While a teacher at Caribou High School. Walsh coached the basketball Vikings for seven years during which time he compiled an outstanding record as a hoop mentor. He had 121 victories against 50 defeats and took his team to the Eastern Maine tournament three times.
