There is a question in the minds of some of those who know as to whether the moose shot by Jesse Jones of West Auburn a few days ago is a moose or an elk. The moose (or elk) is hanging in front of C. H. Cloutier’s store on Lisbon street and has been the subject of much controversy.

The Dunton Lumber Mill, the chief industry at Virginia, has closed down for the season throwing between twenty-five and thirty men out of work. This is because of lack of logs. The men have found other employment so far as possible, and some have left Rumford Falls. Several were planning to leave for Berlin, N.H., to go to work in the paper mills there, but have been deterred by the reports of the strike now in the Burgess Sulphite Mill.

50 Years Ago, 1956

A Christmas tree from the Rangeley Lakes area is on its way airmail to President Eisenhower’s grandson. The eight-foot tree securely wrapped and bearing a large sign reading “Merry Christmas to David D. Eisenhower,” left the Lewiston Post Office and is due to arrive inWashington, D. C. The tree was sent from E. B. Dobbins of Rangeley to President Eisenhower at the White House and marked “Attention Ann C. Whiteman, secretary.” It cost $8.15 to airmail the tree to Washington.

25 Years Ago, 1981

The little town of Vienna, was abuzz last week. It was said that a television crew from Vienna, Austria, was touring the U.S.A., locating all of the namesakes of that city in their homeland and making some sort of documentary to record what they saw for the home folks. Telephone calls have been received by Freda Kelley, Coleman VonGraff, Dorothy VonGraff, Dorothy Waugh and several other citizens in town from Washington, D.C., and later from Augusta. Saturday at 1 p.m. was the time, and sure enough, they were there when they said they would be, in fact, just a wee bit early. And the citizens were there too, about a dozen of them along with VonGraff, Kelley and Waugh.