Staff Writer
• John F. Jerrard has purchased an automobile — a Scriacht, making one more owned by Caribou parties and brining the list of automobiles in Caribou to 27.
1983—One of two steer corralled at the Caribou IGA Foodliner last week during the food store’s Beef Round-up Week, promotion jumped the fence and decided to look the town over. While excited employees and others attempted to capture the animal, he returned to the coral safe and sound. • A good record which indicates that Aroostook has some pretty smart young men was set by Mike McNeal, who picked 162 barrels of potatoes one day last week; 82 barrels in the fore noon and 80 in the afternoon.
• Potatoes are selling for $1.40 per barrel at this time.
• Arthur Willey of Limestone has one of the best yields from a bumper crop of potatoes with over 5,000 barrel on four acres.
• The first football game of the season was held recently at Teague Park.
• Rev. T.J. Ramsdell has left for South Paris where he will spend much-earned vacation of three weeks.
• R.H. Frost and Percy Lyons started Monday evening for their respective schools. Lyons returns as a senior at Georgia Dental College and Frost returns to the University of Pennsylvania.
• Cal Fickett, the football coach at Caribou High School, returned to town recently following a vacation in time to attempt to get in some early practices for the football squad; but on account of so many of the players being engaged in the potato harvest it is impractical to do anything definite at this time.
• A new sales policy at the old established dry goods firm, of the Pattee Company, will be put into operation Oct. 2. The sales girls who will be uniformly dressed in attractive new smocks have been trained to aid the customers in choosing new outfits in correct color combinations. This store goes strictly on a cash basis.
• The misses Elnora and Betsey Ringdahl of New Sweden have returned to their teaching positions in the high schools of North Adams, Mass., and Keene, N.H.
• Smith McIntire of Perham left home for Storrs, Conn., where he enters the state college for a two-year course of study working toward the “Master’s Degree.”
• Farmers are busy working between rain storms and showers, trying to harvest their crops. So far since potato digging began, the weather has been most unfavorable.
• Miss Eldora Thompkins has returned to New York City where she is employed at the National Airlines.
• With this years enrollment exceeding that of last year by more than 200, the classroom situation in the Caribou public school has just about reached the critical stage. Richard F. Crocker, superintendent of the Caribou schools has said there is an immediate need of 20 new classrooms now, with this number expanding to 45 within the next five years.
• Mrs. Franklin Delaney and Mrs. Jacqueline Painter of the Sincock School faculty are attending the State Teachers Convention in Bangor.
• Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Martin that their son, Pvt. 1st Class Nathan Martin, who is serving with the 7th Army division in Thule, Greenland, has been promoted to Specialist 4th Class.
• Fernald E. Anderson and Gordon Dixon both of Stockholm were recently in Waterville attending the American Legion executive meeting.
• The cow moose which has been visiting Caribou for several days met death from a shotgun over the weekend. The shooting apparently took place near the town dump and the marksman remains unknown.
• Sisters Pam and Laurie Richards will be part of the opening act for the Tammy Wynette Show at the Augusta Civic Center. The local vocalists are part of the Happy Medium Band.
• Mrs. Hildegard Anderson of Oakland, Calif., was a recent dinner guest at the home of Mrs. Evelyn Peterson in Stockholm.
• Vicar Sten Boman, a graduate of Yale Divinity School, will begin a year-long internship in the Northern Maine Lutheran Parish this weekend.
• Alton and Brenda Ketch and their family of Woodland have returned home after having spent the summer months at their Madawaska Lake cottage.
• Simon Sandstrom was chosen “most helpful teammate” and was also the co-recipient of the New Sweden Little League’s, “fans sportsmanship award.”
1983 — Pierre Huntress of Limestone displayed his miniature baseball bat and program he obtained at the Little League World Series he attended.
