• Quite a number of Caribou firemen went by special train Saturday night to assist in putting out the fire at New Sweden. The houses burned belonged to F.S. Tibbetts, Anderson & Olson, A.H. Tornquist, and F. Putnam& Co.. The loss is about $30,000.
• Miss Sarah Trusty, one of the popular clerks employed by A.V. Gould& Co., was given a linen shower one evening last week. The affair was a complete surprise.
• Several inches of snow fell Wednesday, helping out considerable in the roads — which were bare in places.
• Miss Ethel Crawford has returned to her home in Caribou after teaching a successful term of school in Perham.
• Potatoes are at 85 cents per barrel.
• Allen Oak, who is engaged as surveyor with the U.S. Boundary Commission, spent one or two days at his home in Caribou this week.
75 Years Ago: Dec. 12, 1935
• Jonas Peterson, 94, New Sweden’s oldest resident and one of the pioneers of that colony, died early Monday at his home in Jemtland. He came to New Sweden in 1872, and his wife Agnes Stadig and two children came two years later. In 1876 they moved onto the homestead land in Jemtland, where Mr. Peterson cleared the farm which has been his home ever since .
• Caribou girls are distinguishing themselves at Aroostook State Normal School. Essays on “What the Public Library Means to Me,” written by Edith Knowlton and Phyllis Hewitt were heard over the radio on the Presque Isle station during Book Week.
• Currier & Mockler will observe the custom they have had for a number of years and will offer a free bassinet to any baby born in Caribou on Christmas Day.
• The Ladies’ Aid of the M.E. Church in Limestone held a tea Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Belle Getchell. The committee in charge was Mrs. Doris Foster, Mrs. Beatrice McKaig, Mrs. Crystal Ward and Mrs. Sara Hutchins.
• Walter Ostlund will be the captain of New Sweden’s Athletic Club ski team and Henry Anderson the manager. The member of this team plan to start practice much earlier than they did last winter with the hopes of preventing a recurrence of last year’s defeat by the University of Maine.
• J.A. Griffeth, Miss Mattie Griffeth, Philip Fraser and Mrs. Joseph Theriault of Limestone were in town Saturday afternoon.
50 Years Ago: Dec. 15, 1960
• Miss Rae Harmon is expected home from Boston University this weekend.
• Sam Bailey, son of Athill Bailey, left Monday for Fort Dix, New Jersey, where he will undergo basic training in the U.S. Army.
• David Wakem is expected home from Ricker Collegee this weekend to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.Herbert Wakem.
