• A.W. Spaulding, who has been making a trip around the world, is expected home next week.
• According to figures recently given out by the postal authorities at Washington, there are 146 pounds of mail daily between Caribou and Limestone for which the railroad receives $719 for carrying.
• The comet (we don’t know just what name to give it as we have seen it referred to by so many different terms —“Johannesburg,” “A1910,” “Inness,” “Meyers,” etc.) has caused many people to look heavenward who had before been busy with other thoughts.
• New Sweden is planning a big celebration this summer, commemorative of the founding of that town 40 years ago. And truly the advancement by New Sweden has been as marked and great as any township in the state — its citizens noted for their thrift, frugality, honesty and enterprise.
• Mrs. Albert Peterson and two children are spending a few days in Presque Isle this week, guests of Mrs. Peterson’s sister, Mrs. Fay Sweetser.
• Caribou folks, said to number 200 to 300, braved the bitter cold of Sunday afternoon to journey to the new ski jump on the east bank of the Aroostook River at the farm of John Gee to witness some spectacular ski-jumping by the experts of this vicinity.
• This past week has been one of unusual severity as far as weather conditions are concerned. The big storm last week when all traffic was seriously cramped then developed into a cold spell which is said to be pretty nearly a record for this section. Thermometers showed readings as low as 58-60 degrees below zero in Caribou.
• The furniture and undertaking firm of Currier and Mockler has made some important changes in the interior of their store recently. The business now is conducted entirely on one floor. The front of the store is taken up with a fine display room for undertaking supplies which will also make an attractive service chapel if needed. The other room in the rear is the workroom. The new arrangement makes it a much more convenient layout than previously where the basement was used for all undertaking operations.
• The Aroostook Republican, “a big letter from home,” each week — send it regularly to that friend or relative out of town — 3 cents a week — $1.50 a year.
• Hazel Anderson of Stockholm, who attends Caribou High School, spent the weekend at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Anderson.
• Kenneth Espling has resigned from the Caribou Police Department and has taken up new duties with the County Sheriff’s force.
• Fifteen seniors, selected from the upper third of their class by a board of faculty members for character, scholarship, leadership and service were inducted into the National Honor Society at Caribou High School. New candidates include: Wendy Lombard, Sharon Estey, Sandra Gustafson, Warren Griffin, John Bero, Vernon Palmer, III, Eva Ann Cote, Barbara Caron, Barbara Clark, Florina Philbrick, Faith Porter, Beth Ann McCluskey, Judy Hanley, Susan Buchanan and Greta Peterson. Principal Jess DeLois delivered the induction pledge to the NHS members.
• Woodland students in grade 3 who recently received high honors are: Beverly Anderson, Sue Mae Brown and David Norsworthy. Those named to honors include: Susan Drost, Dana Fowler, Patricia Cochran, Barbara Brown, Paula Cyr, Robert Stedt, Leann Pike, Janet Moir, Lewis Griffin and Carol Espling.
• At its annual meeting at the Plymouth Hotel in Fort Fairfield, the Northeast Press Association elected Doug Costello, news editor of the Aroostook Republican, president for the year 1960.
• The misses Candace Johnson, Linda Anderson, Karen Anderson, April Ann Knowlton, Gusta Borjeson, Sandra Johnson and Susan Anderson all of Stockholm, attended a meeting of Rainbow for Girls in Caribou.
