Turning Back The Pages 12-24-09

100 years ago — 1909

SALISBURY — Charles H. Miller has purchased the market business of the late Lorin Miller and after January 1st will give up his position at Roberts’ store and will conduct the market at the same stand as formerly.

J.S. Perkins and E.W. Spurr are filling their ice houses with nine inch ice from Davis Ore Bed.

50 years ago —  1959

A sedan owned by Mrs. Francis Walsh was parked in the parking area near the Welfare building in Lakeville Tuesday when it suddenly took off. Whether it was moved by the Christmas spirit or headed down grade strictly from hunger (for it made for the Gulf Service Station!) is not known, but it certainly seemed to have a guardian angel somewhere near the controls.

From a backed-in position in the parking area, the Walsh car rolled out, turned left, went down hill, crossed Route 41, turned left again and passed neatly between a pole and a cut stone road bastion, with barely an inch to spare, to tip, nose-down, in the brook which flows near the Service Station.

Except for its dunking, the wanderer seemed unharmed, and no person or property was injured by its brief safari.

CORNWALL — Mrs. Mildred Dennis and Mrs. Viola Brown, chairman and co-chairman of the Polio Fund Drive for Cornwall, have announced that James Thurber, well known cartoonist, writer and playwright, will be chairman for Special Gifts for the Drive.

25 years ago — 1984

CANAAN — Officials at Geer Memorial Health Care Center have started to amass the information needed to file for a new 60-bed wing for intermediate care. Plans for the proposal were first announced last summer and official approval to start the project was granted by the Board of Directors last week.

Taken from decades-old Lake-ville Journals, these items contain original spellings and phrasings.

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