50 Years Ago – Jan. 8, 1975
Caribou Post Office employee promoted — J. Maxwell Susee, superintendent of Mails of the Caribou Post Office, was appointed Postmaster of Fort Fairfield on Nov. 23.
The sun expelled two bursts of plasma that are hurtling toward Earth and are expected to arrive early this week, according NOAA.
25 Years Ago – Jan. 4, 1999
Alaska to home, by sled — Local men plan a trip: 6000 miles in 30 days. When three members of the Caribou Snowmobile Club travel to Alaska, they will go by plane. On the way back — all the way back — they’ll travel by snowmobile.
75 Years Ago – Dec. 22, 1949
To donate 1700 bags of candy at Yule party — Caribou’s annual Christmas party for children will take place this Saturday and next Monday, with hundreds of bags of candy and peanuts being readied for distribution and with a full-length feature and cartoons being prepared for a free showing.
25 Years Ago – Dec. 15, 1999
Retiring at top — Richard Griffin is retiring as the plant manager of First Technology of Caribou after 36 years with the company.
100 Years Ago – Dec. 4, 1924
Sharing entertainment with friends — Harold Brown was calling on friends in Woodland Sunday. He has purchased a graphophone and will give entertainment at his home.
75 Years Ago – Dec. 1, 1949
A special bonus given — The board of directors of the J.C. Penney Company has authorized a special payment of an amount equal to two weeks’ pay for all full-time associates who have been employed for the full year of 1949 and on a proportionate basis for extra and part-time associates and for those employed less than a year.
75 Years Ago – Nov. 24, 1949
Gilbert Brown celebrates 99th birthday at son’s house — Gilbert Brown observed his 99th birthday in good health Tuesday at the home of his son, John Brown, at the Brown homestead of 63 years.
25 Years Ago – Nov. 17, 1999
Center of attention — More than 200 people and a U.S. senator attended the open house Saturday for the nearly complete Ralph and Dorothy Allen Center for Women and Children’s Health at the Cary Medical Center.
75 Years Ago – Nov. 10, 1949
Nat’l. Trade magazine lands S.W. Collins building renovation — ‘The Lumber Co-operator,’ a national trade magazine, lauded the renovated S. W. Collins Co., office-warehouse building in its October issue.
