• By the will of the late Nathaniel Bartlett, $500 was placed in trust to be invested by the trustee “and at such a time as the Caribou Public Library Association shall decide to erect a public library building in said town of Caribou, the said trustee shall pay the said $500 and all accrued interest to the treasurer of the association to be used in purchasing the lot for said library building.”
• A record, which doubtless is incomplete, of accidents to hunters in Maine this season, shows that seven have lost their lives while unknown numbers suffered injuries ranging from a mere scratch to the loss of an arm.
• Robert L. McLellan has sold his stock in the L.J. Sherwood Co. and retired from the firm — finding indoor business too confining. He probably will purchase a farm. He expects to leave next week for a short trip to Boston, to visit his brother, Byron D. McLellan.
• J.A. Swanton has closed his shop in the Cary building on Sweden Street and entered the employ of the Combination Clothing Co.
• Miss Grace Denton, who has been stenographer and bookkeeper for the L.J. Sherwood Co., for the last two years, has resigned her position with them and entered the Aroostook State Normal School in Presque Isle.
• Chief of the Caribou Fire Department Murray Mockler is displaying a beautiful rolled gold badge inscribed with his title, which has been presented to him as a gift from the Justin A. McCarthy Co. of Boston, dealers in fire department specialties.
• The heavy rain of last Saturday put practically all of the country roads into an almost impassable condition. Even the graveled state roads were cut heavily to pieces by the trucks going through the thinning layer of frozen ground as the constant deluge brought the frost out of the ground.
• The Grange Shoe Store has acquired the distributorship for two famous lines of skates and hockey supplies and have installed modern skate-sharpening equipment.
• Limestone teachers of the lower grades were very appreciative of the help given them by Mrs. Annie Phair, Mrs. Dorothy Pair, Mrs. Lena Thompson and Miss McLean, also Dr. Cyr’s co-operation in the clinic which was held at the school building last week. The children had 200 teeth extracted during the day.
• The West Perham School has been closed this week owning to the new outbreak of scarlet fever. There were three new cases in that part of town since Thanksgiving.
• The Caribou High School Class of 1960 recently elected the following class officers. Robert Hardison, president; Phil Brown, vice president; Judy Hanley, secretary and Bryan Corrow, treasurer. Stewart Thurston was re-elected as faculty adviser.
• Elby Stevens and Dr. Van Philpott appeared before the town council this week with the suggestion that the town purchase the Caribou Water Works. They argued that under the present arrangement with the private company, water was costing the town and its residents too much money, and that all concerned would be better off if the water was under town ownership.
• A/3C Galen Dubay, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dubay, is home on leave from Keesler A.F.B., in Mississippi.
• The town council agreed to free parking in town from Dec. 17-24, inclusive, after hearing a request from Richard Waitt, president of the Caribou Chamber of Commerce. Waitt believed that business would be stimulated if residents and visitors could shop leisurely without having to worry about dropping nickels and pennies into the parking meters at times when they might be a distance from their cars.
• Uniforms for police women can be expected next week. They were ordered in August and because of delay in delivery, the women have been unable to assume their duties. The police women are to be used at traffic crossings in the vicinity of schools at the times children will be going to and from school.
