• The cub captured by Charles W. Harris of Auburn on his recent hunting trip to Bingham is fast becoming used to city ways and seems to rather enjoy the attention paid to it. At present the little fellow is on exhibition in the window of the cigar store of E. W. Pierce. The cub is quite tame and will take food from the hand of Mr. Harris as cunning as a puppy.

• James H. Robbins of Biddeford sold two dressed hogs Saturday for which he got nine cents a pound. This he declares is the highest price that has been paid at wholesale for 35 years.

50 Years Ago, 1956

• The Edward Little High School newspaper, “Station ELHS,” in a recent editorial, outlined the inadequacies in the school’s physical structure and academic program, and called for action to change the situation. In the same issue, another editorial urged students to stay away from the downtown New Auburn area where activities of congregating teen-agers has resulted in police action.

• A spokesman for H.P. Hood & Sons said yesterday the firm’s ice cream refrigeration operations, now located at 55 Oxford St., will be shifted to Portland soon. The move was necessitated because the company’s lease on the Oxford Street property expires soon. He said operations will begin Jan. 1 at the new location but that the local truck fleet, salesmen and home deliveries will remain in Lewiston.

25 Years Ago, 1981

The commissioner of Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection said Friday that the listing of Winthrop’s town dump as one of the 100 worst hazardous waste sites in the nation may be misleading, and that the practical effects of inclusion on the federal list remain to be seen.

The Winthrop dump, which nestles next to a private landfill near the Annabessacook Lake, was included on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s priority list to obtain cleanup money from the $1.6 billion “superfund” established by Congress last year.