• The potato situation is not very promising. The price has been gradually dropping until now only 50 cents a barrel is being paid. No one can raise potatoes, sell at that price and make a profit.
• Workmen are busy repairing the L.W. Stevens and Son building on Sweden Street recently damaged by fire.
• Howard O. Spencer returned Friday from a business trip to Bangor and Boston, in the latter city attending the automobile show.
• W.R. Pattee, the local dry goods merchant, returned Tuesday night from a three-week’s trip to New York and Boston, where he has been selecting his spring and summer goods.
• Charles F. Thomas, Jr., a student at the Harvard Medical School was one of 20 men chosen from his class for hospital surgical appointment. Mr. Thomas will have the month of September at the Boston City Hospital.
• The recommendations of the budget committee for the 1935-36 Caribou town budget is $203,496.31.
• Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Brooker of Limestone are parents of a son, born Saturday morning.
• Dennis Getchell was employed as policeman in Limestone over the weekend.
• The town of Woodland has an article in their warrants this year regarding the regulating of dance pavilions. This is a step in the right direction. While people might have different opinions in some respects on public dance halls, the idea appears to be unanimous that they should be licensed only to responsible parties who will see that they are adequately policed and that objectionable features are removed.
• W.L. Robbins, editor of the Republican has been ill at his house for several days with the flu. This, added to the fact that our typesetting machine has been going night and day on town reports, will, in a large part account for several omitted articles in this issue.
