• Mrs. Davis Johnson is nursing a flock of chickens. The old hen does not give much milk in this weather.
• With wide tires on the heavy wagons we would soon have good roads in Aroostook. With narrow tires we will never have them. This is simple but it is true. Some people would fly off the handle if they were told that in many things, Maine is 50 years behind the times.
• At a meeting of the Aroostook blacksmiths in Fort Fairfield, five new members were added to the organization. Caribou Knights of the Anvil were well represented.
• In Washburn, Mrs. Carrie Landeen, a new milliner, has gone to Boston where she will study styles, that she may be better qualified to meet the demands of a fastidious public.
• Phair’s lumber mill was running full blast waterpower. It is quite a busy place making long lumber, clap boards, shingles, barrel staves and heads; also a cooper shop run by William Hall and Phillip Libby.
• Honor parts for the Senior Class at Caribou High School for 1933, have been announced by Principal John A. Partridge. The awards were presented to Lona Denton, valedictory; Irvine Gammon, salutatory and R. Richard Sullivan, third honor part.
• Mailman Herbert Kelley from the Madawaska Road, made his first complete trip on wheels, Friday morning April 14. The first car made its appearance on Saturday.
• Wilbur Raymond, a new B&A station agent has arrived in Limestone to assume his duties there.
• John Hedman, teacher of the East Jemtland School in New Sweden reported that as a result of drastic cuts in the appropriations at a recent New Sweden town meeting, the pay of schoolteachers has been cut over 40 percent.
• Awarded football letters for the 1932 season at Caribou High School were: Donald Murray, Joe Freme, Vaughn Currier, Stanley Pierson, Kenneth Ouellette, Hebert Aldrich, Guy Sirois, Alva Pangburn, Richard Sullivan, Edward Doyle Jr., Elbridge Michaud, Phillip Gregory and Irvine Gammon.
• The ice started running over the Aroostook River dam at 10:20, April 9, according to reports from the Maine Public Service Co. Steam Plant.
• CHS will present the Class of 1959 this week in the annual Junior Exhibition, under the direction of Richard Pratt with music under the direction of Kenneth Matthews. Speakers were: Joanne Burleigh, “A Study of two Women”; John Abbott, “Noah’s Ark”; Arthalene Buzzell, “Joan of Arc”; and Barry Haskell, “George Washington Slept Here”.
• Miss Karen Johnson, a member of the Tri-Hi-Y Club attended the Model Legislature session in Augusta.
• The Buttercup Brownie Troop held a “fly-up” ceremony for Carolyn Fletcher who advanced to the Daffodil Girl Scout Troop and for Faye Soucie who flew up into the Robin Girl Scout Troop.
• A popular new showplace on Sweden Street is the JC Jay Bakery owned and operated by Fred Hackett. The new business features a full line of bakery delicacies and a snack bar.
•In a unanimous 4-0 vote, the Caribou School Board went against a proposal to ban rock and roll music from the Caribou school system.
• Caribou High School senior, Peter Harmon, who has qualified for the state tennis meet twice, should again be a top individual contender in Aroostook County, as the Caribou Boy’s Tennis Team’s, top-seed player.
• Kathy Mazuchelli and Bob White were honored by the Maine Recreation and Parks Association. Mazurchelli won the Top Professional Award, the first woman to ever receive this honor while White, longtime president of the Caribou Little League Association, was named Maine Volunteer of the Year.
• Lister-Knowlton VFW Post 9389 recently presented Ken Doody with his life membership card.
• Eight girls from Washburn District High School who will compete for the Miss Washburn title are: Jeannie Dyer, Debbie Rand, Robyn Haynes, Pam Akerson, Connie Spinney, Cheryl Richardson, Angela Woodman and Cindy Sperrey.
