Mexico, Me. – At a special town meeting held here Saturday it was voted to raise $22,000 to build a new school house. The plans submitted by Miller & Mayo, the well known Lewiston architects, were accepted and the contract will be let Monday. The building will be a wooden structure and sufficiently large to accommodate the high school and all of the grades. This building will take the place of the school house which was destroyed by fire last Christmas.

• Little Russia is no more. This settlement in North Foxcroft was composed of Russians who came here several years ago and bought abandoned farms. They tired of being tillers of the soil and the last family left last week when John Lebethequiacz started with his wife and 10 sons and daughters for Pasadena, Cal.

50 years ago, 1957

NEW YORK – A fantastic new one-inch pill contains a radio station to broadcast news reports on the health of your insides.

You could easily swallow this radio pill, demonstrated today at the Rockefeller Institute.

It is a plastic capsule, just over an inch long, less than half an inch around. Instead of medicines, it contains a tiny FM broadcasting station, powered by a miniature storage battery.

As it goes through your stomach and intestines, it can broadcast facts about your digestive tract. Mainly it’s designed to tell about pressures and muscular contractions. It might also be rigged to tell about acidity and temperatures.

25 years ago, 1982

On a day when even the U.S. mail didn’t go through, the Circulation Department of The Sun delivered 98 percent of the carrier and dealer copies to subscribers, according to the Circulation Manager Gerald Michaud.

Braving the storm, drivers, carriers and other employees sent out all four editions to areas as far away as New Hampshire and the outer reaches of Oxford and Franklin counties.

“This is the type of thing that is taken for granted,” Michaud said. “You have a paper between your doors every morning but most people don’t know what effort goes into it.”