Compiled By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer

115 Years Ago: Feb. 18, 1897

• Potatoes are at 70 cents per barrel today.

• Within a few weeks of spring and only snow enough for sleighing is something unusual in Aroostook. It is said that there is only one foot of snow in the woods north.

Compiled By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer

115 Years Ago: Feb. 11, 1897

• Potatoes are at 65 cents a barrel today.

• Miss Emma Brissette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brissettte, was united in marriage Monday to Joseph Muzzall, the ceremony being impressively performed by Rev. E. Gauthier of the Catholic Church.

1942 — Miss Joyce Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Millard Wright, was crowned queen of the 1942 Caribou Winter Carnival in an impressive and beautiful ceremony. Miss Wright received the crown from Adjutant General George Carter before a capacity crowd of carnival spectators that included Gov. and Mrs. Sumner Sewall.

Compiled By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer

100 Years Ago: Feb. 1, 1912

• Saturday last will go on record as the coldest morning of the winter, the thermometers near the streams registering 46 degrees below zero.

Contributed photo
Madawaska Lake  circa 1941. These three young ladies are shown in front of the former Wessel’s camp at Madawaska Lake. The photo was submitted by Connie Harmon, former longtime Caribou resident who now resides in Texas. Harmon said the photo is of Wessel’s camp, store, gas station location whose owners also provided canoe and camp rentals. “I was tenting on the shore for a week that summer with a girl friend when Lucelle, Elaine and Rita canoed over for a visit.” From left are Elaine Andrews Scott, Rita Sheppard and Lucille Harmon Vineer.

Compiled By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer

115 Years Ago: Jan. 28, 1887

• Potatoes are at 70 and 72 cents per barrel today.

• S.W. Collins and Son’s teams are busily engaged in hauling logs from the yards to the lake branch landing on Caribou Stream.