Turning Back The Pages

100 years ago — January 1907

The Observer (editorial): The Consolidated road now has control of the Winsted trolley road. If there are any more stray trolley roads lying around loose their owners should take them in over night if they wish to keep them.

 

SHARON — Rumor says that Fred Selfridge has purchased the John Costin place in Sharon Valley.

 

LIME ROCK — R.N. Barnum and other local poultry men exhibited some fine birds at the Millerton Poultry show this week.

50 years ago — January 1957

SALISBURY — Selectmen decided on Tuesday evening to accept the offer of the State Highway Department to purchase 3.9 acres in Lime Rock including the flood-damaged mill, for the sum of $12,500. The State has indicated for some time that it wished to acquire this land in order to relocate the bridge over the Salmon Kill which was ruined by the flood of 1955, but no definite purchase price was stated until recently.

 

FALLS VILLAGE — Miss Marie Elizabeth Parmalee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Parmalee of Falls Village, and Raymond Edward Ovitt, son of Mrs. Edward Ovitt of Canaan, were united in marriage Saturday afternoon in the Clayton Church of God.

 

SALISBURY — Charles Coons III is home on a twenty-day leave after completing his basic training with the U.S. Marine Corps on Parris Island.

 

LAKEVILLE — A pair of robins are braving the cold near Lake Wononscopomuc and have been seen by Mrs. William Raynsford at her feeder at Lake House.

25 years ago — January 1982

Dr. Robert Blesh, Housatonic Valley Regional High School principal, is convinced it was no illusion when he saw a two-car train chugging slowly north this week on former Berkshire Line tracks running under Route 7 in Falls Village. Neither the Danbury nor the Pittsfield offices of Conrail knew anything about the mystery train. For eight years, the state-owned tracks have been quiet and not certified for travel.

— Norma Galaise

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