• E.G. Pratt has sold his farm, including crops, farming machinery, horses, etc., reserving only his household good to Edward Lufkin. The papers were made out Saturday and it is understood the consideration was $6,000.
• Frank Havey and Charles Gammon left last Thursday for Eastport where Mr. Gammon will act as clerk in Mr. Havey’s drug store in that town.
• John, the seven-year-old son of Emery Knowlton, who fell from a ladder in the barn several weeks ago and broke his thigh, has so far recovered as to be able to be out of doors.
• C.C. King has lately been making many improvements on the interior of his house, finishing off several rooms on the third floor, putting in more electric lights and a new bathroom.
• Arden Sommers is making repairs on his home on Sweden Street, among other improvements being a piazza.
• Howard Hanson is having quite a serious time with his right hand. A few weeks ago he ran a sliver in the hand, working a week before attending to it., with the result that the hand is now affected with local blood poisoning.
• Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dansereau had the misfortune to lose their new car, which was stolen in the door yard while they were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jacques.
• Another in a series of electrical storms, accompanied by disastrous downpours of rain and hail visited the New Sweden area, severely injuring potato crops.
• After a town meeting with much lively discussion, Caribou residents voted 452 to 172 to legalize amateur Sunday sports.
• Strawberry pickers on H.D. Collins’ farm were startled when a fair-sized doe appeared on the hill behind them and ran across the field, disappearing in the direction of New Sweden Road.
• Walter F. Bishop was building a 25-foot boat in the basement of his store on Main Street, proceeding without plan or pattern.
• Miss Gertrude Gahagan, native of Caribou, acted as Superintendent at the Cary Memorial Hospital during the four-month absence on sick leave of Miss Nellie C. Dysart.
• During a fishing trip on New Brunswick’s Restigouche river waters, Robert Graves of Caribou, was very successful, bringing home a 26 pound salmon.
• A&M Hackett reopened on Main Street, after rebuilding and remodeling, following a fire which destroyed the building in February.
• The Caribou swimming pool was well on its way to being completed, thanks to volunteer workers and material donations.
• Graydon Lombard was installed as 22nd King Lion of the Caribou Lions Club during installation ceremonies conducted during a regular dinner meeting at the Hotel Caribou.
• Leo McCarthy, truck driver for O’Donnell’s Express, escaped serious injury when the truck end of his unit suddenly burst into flames on South Main Street.
• Gordon R. Dixon, of Stockholm, past district commander of the Department of Maine American Legion, was elected department Americanism officer at the state convention at Portland.
• A potato house owned by Warren Anderson was destroyed after a second fire within a week completely engulfed the building.
• Leland White, M.D., on staff at Cary Medical Center, was presented with the A.H. Robbins Award for Community Service, one of the highest honors available to a physician in Maine.
• Caribou’s 11th annual summer arts and crafts festival attracted the biggest crowd ever recorded at that event, with 70 exhibitors from all over the state displaying their crafts.
• Betty Roy, of Caribou, won first place in WOZI Radio’s third annual talent contest, with her rendition of “Honky Tonk Angels.”
• Rosemary Monahan and Nancy Jackson, both of Caribou, were both awarded the David Solman Memorial Scholarship, presented to them by Associate Professor of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Caroline Gentile at the University of Maine at Presque Isle.
• Rebecca Meir, 11, daughter of Dr. and Josef Meir of Caribou, was selected as a state finalist to compete in the 1983 Miss Maine National Pre-teen pageant held at the Augusta Civic Center.
