• Owing to the extreme high water, the electric lights in Stockholm were shut off for a few nights leaving the town in darkness.
• D.W. Moores has recently put in a large supply of handsome wagons and has disposed of a dozen already this spring, notwithstanding the muddy condition of the roads.
• Dr. Lagerson’s horse took a fit of blind staggers last Friday on the Jemtland Road near Beardsley Brook. He got as far as C.A. Jacobson’s with it, but there it fell into the ditch so it was necessary to load it onto a stone boat and haul it home over a mile away.
• Married April 24, at the church of the Holy Rosary by Rev. Father McGill were Levite J. Ouillette and Miss Teresa E. McNeal, both of Caribou.
• No improvement in the roads, which are the worst ever known. But no one could expect any improvement until after the “40 days” rain.
• Who said, “hard time,” in Aroostook? The Fort Fairfield Review reports that the Aroostook Auto Company of that town has sold and delivered 14 automobiles this year.
• The ice started to leave the Aroostook River above the dam at 12:45 on Monday.
• The 7th birthday of the Caribou Business and Professional Women’s organization was celebrated Monday evening when members gathered to enjoy the program prepared by committee members.
• Joe Cote is sweetening up everybody around here with a little maple syrup.
• A special train over the C.P.R. Sunday brought 32 laborers from various Canadian towns to work in this area.
• The name of Joseph Freme appears on the dean’s list for the last semester at the Ricker Classical Institute.
• G.W. Wakem, whose men’s furnishings store on Water Street, is so well known, is stocking the store on Sweden Street formerly occupied by McNelly’s Inc., and will open on Saturday with a complete new line of mans and boys’ furnishings. Mr. Wakem has just returned from the Boston and New York markets.
• Don Frost, the son of Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Frost, recently observed his ninth birthday. Guests included David Peterson, Donna Coates, Carla Cyr, Paul Pangburn, Roger Kelley, Paul Weston, Sharon Paul, Michael Reece, Dorothy Ahern and Brian Thompson. Freddie Fletcher and Cindy Mooers were also invited but were unable to attend.
• Private Ronald Sirois, 19, of Caribou has arrived at Fort Dix and has been assigned to E Co., 4th Training Regiment of the U.S. Army Training Center, Infantry for eight weeks Basic Training. Pvt. Sirois, a graduate of Caribou High School, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund R. Sirois.
• Diana Jacobs of the Caribou Jolly Janes 4-H Club, was the winner in the junior class at the annual 4-H Style Dress Review held at the Presque Isle High School with the theme, “Easter Parade of Fashions.”
• The 1960 census in Caribou should be about completed by this weekend, according to Robert McGuire, crew leader of the count in Caribou and towns to the west.
• The newly formed “Sit and Chat” Club of Woodland met recently at the home of Mrs. Ted St. Peter to honor Mrs. Josephine Olmstead on her birthday.
• The greatest backcourt combination in basketball history — Bob Cousy and Bill Sharman, of the Boston Celtics — will appear at the General Carter State Armory in Caribou on May 15.
