• Mr. E.J. Philbrick’s trucking team came through with a jigger wagon Thursday afternoon, the first wheels on the road in New Sweden this year. This is a few days earlier than last year, and the wagon traffic has been brisk.
• While Dr. Lagerson was making a professional call at John Jacobson’s home Monday evening, he left the horse in a sheltered corner with a big fur robe over his back and a bunch of hay to while away the time. When the snowstorm came that had prognosticated earlier in the day, it lifted that fur robe high in the air. Old Frank didn’t stop to see it land but lit out for home like a streak of brown lightning. The doctor footed it too, as best he could in that furious gale.
• John A. Day’s family on the East Road got quite a scare one night last week. Mrs. Day made some brown bread and put what she thought was molasses in it, but it tasted like kerosene when they came to eat it. All but two ate the bread, however and were taken very sick in the night. They called the doctor and when they came to investigate, found that she had used machine oil instead of molasses.
• Out telephone service is about as poor as it can get, in fact the worst it ever has been. A case in mind was the other evening when the doctor’s horse ran away and he tried to contact his home to assure he was OK. The horse got there first going over a mile while the doctor was ringing for all he was worth to get the boy, who is paid to stay right there with the receiver by his ear. If the calls were answered as promptly as the monthly calls are collected, there would be no kick coming from anyone.
• Whit Stevens has had telephone connections placed in his farmhouse. Ring148-11.
• George A. Wright, the photographer, has just put up a new sample case at the foot of the stairs leading to his studio in the Roberts block.
• A. Gilman Sullivan, son of Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Sullivan, has achieved further distinction at Harvard University by being awarded the Coolidge Debating prize of $50, awarded each year to the member of the freshman class who does the best work in the trials for the Harvard-Princeton freshman debates.
• Philip Jacobs had the misfortune to break his left forearm recently when the horse he was about to mount was frightened by one of the other boys and threw him to the ground.
• Michael Corey has purchased a new 6-hole Frigidaire ice cream storage refrigerator for use in his restaurant.
• Little Milad Freme received a serious injury to his nose recently, while standing too close to the batter in a baseball game. The bat struck him between the eyes. . Upon examination the following day, it was found not to be broken. Although his face is somewhat disfigured at the present time, the 4-year-old continues to play with his friends, but he is more cautious of swinging baseball bats.
50 Years Ago: May 1, 1958
• Construction has begun for the new municipal swimming pool being built in the Teague Park area.
• Eddie Gagnon, formerly of Caribou was in the area recently and sold his farm on the Sweden Road to Freeland Smith.
• The town council has decided Caribou’s whole future is going to get a study as well as her present condition. The council has retained the James W. Sewall Co., of Old Town, to make an exhaustive survey at the cost of $14,000.
• Nine members of the junior class at Caribou High School were named delegates to the Dirigo Boy’s State to be held at the University of Maine Delegates are:John Abbott, Richard Winslow, Gary Harris and Robert Mahoney. Also: Peter Kelley, Stephen Johnson, Edward Higgins, David Steeves and Robert Page.
• Carl Durost has been nominated for commander of the Henry B. Pratt, Jr. Post of the American Legion, succeeding Cmdr. John Wyman.
• At the recent PTA Variety Show in Stockholm, the “Loose Tones”, comprised of Frederic Anderson, Harold Johnson and Abner Jepson sang “Down By the Old Mill Stream,” and other selections.
• Peter Edgecomb, agriculture teacher and FFA leader in Limestone accepted a new job in Madawaska where he will become the new director of the Region I Vocational Education administration office.
• Groundwork continues on the aerated basins at the secondary waste treatment facility being constructed at the Grimes Mill site in Caribou.
• Three new students have been enrolled in the New Sweden School; Corey Sherwood in kindergarten, Keri Sherwood, grade 2 and Robert Sherwood, grade 3.
• 15-year-old Brian Doody of Caribou, a member of Boy Scout Troop 184, has earned the rank of Eagle Scout.
Guests of the Caribou Homemakers Extension at a recent meeting were Ada Plourde, Verna Tall, Helen Borjeson, Frances Nelson and Larina Anderson.
• Caribou High School sophomore Kim May finished first in the two-mile race during a a tri-meet track event held in Presque Isle. May ran the distance in 13:59.3.
