Staff Writer
The Aroostook Pioneer
School plans — The superintending school committee have, of their own accord, purchased the land in the rear of the building belonging to the H.T. Frisbie estate.
The buildings on this land will be moved to another location and land will be graded and devoted to a playground purposes for the benefit of the school children. The school committee expects that the town will vote to take this land off their hands this spring.
Linneus town meeting — At the annual town meeting held March 30, the following officers were elected: E.T. Tuell, moderator; W.H. Bither, clerk and treasurer; H.O. Bither, A.C. Adams and H.G. Bither, selectmen, assessors and overseers of the poor; C.H. Young, collectors; W.G. Adams, school committee.
Money appropriated: schools, $1,200; support of the poor, $300; roads and bridges, $1,500; repair on schoolhouses, $100; textbooks, $150; town charges, $450; abatement and collections, $150; cemetery repairs, $25; tuition at RCI, $200; and state roads, $43.50.
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A real tough logger — Hugh Malone, 68, a logger working in Linneus Thursday afternoon March 27, broke his leg when a log rolled off the sled. Normally, he would have been given first aid by someone working with him, but he was alone and did what he had to do.
The elderly woodsman mounted his horse and rode about a half a mile with his splintered leg to a farmhouse where Dunn’s Ambulance Service was called. Instead of getting off his horse, Malone stayed on until help arrived. When Bob Chapman of Dunn’s arrived, he applied splints to Malone’s leg while Malone was still in the saddle.
Chapman said Malone did the right thing by staying on the horse until he was able to be moved into the ambulance and taken to Aroostook Hospital.
Photo courtesy of the Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum
GIRL SCOUTS — The Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum shared a set of Girl Scout photos in hopes of identifying the remainder of these scouts. This 1947-1948 picture was donated to the museum by former Houlton native Betty Lou Baulch. (Watch for the other pictures in an upcoming edition.) Anyone with information on the picture, can call the Pioneer Times at 532-2281. Those identified so far include, from left: front, Barbara Berce, Marilyn Daniels, Patty Varney, Roseanne Daigle, Barbara Vose, Ethel Ivey and Patty Tomilson; second row, Barbara Wiley, ? , Betty Lou Baulch, Cynthia ? , ? , ? , ? ; third row, Rena Bull, Mrs. Lydia Ervin, Madeline Crawford Perkins, ? , ? , Miss Nora Wallace and ? .
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Special delivery — Kenneth Bither of Linneus was visited for the first time last week by his first grandchildren, two sets of twin boys. The twins, Evan Kenneth and Adam Roland Bither and Olland Michael and Aaron Eugene Reese, are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Bither of Linneus and Mr. and Mrs. Olland Reese of Augusta. Other grandparents are Edwina Mills of Washburn, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Wiley of Ludlow and Kenneth and Mattie Reese of St. Louis, Mo.
The Reese twins were born March 7, and the Bither twins were born March 11.
The year’s top athletes — Athletic awards and recognition were given to Houlton High School athletes at a March 28 banquet. Among those receiving awards were: Lisa Collett and Mary Harrigan, both MVP and All-Tourney; Amanda Dunphy, most improved; Teresa Haggerty, MVP for the Jayvees, all in basketball; Troy Cone, coach’s award for Jayvee basketball; Arthur Nagle, coach’s award in golf; Diane Nagle, rookie of the year in basketball and Tabby Devoe, most improved in basketball.
