Turning Back The Pages - December 9

75 years ago — December 1935

Edwin Kilmer, who is a member of a C.C.C. camp near New Haven, spent the holiday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kilmer on Factory Street.

The Salisbury Knife Handle Company is established in its new quarters on Factory Street. The new plant is modern in every respect and an enlarging program is under way. The factory is working ten hours a day employing the maximum number of workers. Working conditions are very near ideal in this new plant and a visitor is impressed with spirit of contentment and loyalty which the employees evidence.

TACONIC — Frank J. Schmaling Jr. returned on Monday from White Plains, N.Y., where he has been attending a poultry show. Mr. Schmaling exhibited a number of his fine birds and returned home with a large collection of ribbons.

50 years ago — December 1960

Funeral services were held at Upper Meadow, her Falls Village home, last Saturday for the Baroness Maude Ledyard von Ketteler, 89, who died Nov. 30 following an illness of several years.

The widow of a German diplomat killed in Peiping, China, during the Boxer Rebellion in 1899, the Baroness met and married Baron von Ketteler while he was serving in the German Diplomatic Corps in Washington, D.C. Following his death, the Baroness moved from China to a villa in Florence, Italy, which she left shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

She moved to Falls Village in 1938, and in 1941 purchased a 90-acre estate, formerly owned by Col. Philip Mathews and his sister Anna I. Mathews, both of Pittsburgh, Pa.

The Baroness never remarried and lived alone with her nurse and servants in the large mansion on top of the hill. Because of ill health, she took little part in community affairs and had a small circle of friends here.

KENT — Mrs. Katharine Evarts is planning a trip to Vermont over the next weekend where she will visit her sister, Mrs. DeLancey K. Jay.

25 years ago — December 1985

CANAAN — Paul T. Miller has been promoted to vice president by the executive committee of People’s Bank.

Jay Overbye, a senior from Sharon, was recognized as the team’s best-conditioned athlete and was named Wooster Ironman at the College of Wooster’s annual football banquet.

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

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