Turning Back The Pages

100 years ago­ — December 1920

SALISBURY — Miss Helen Harding has taken a position at Champagne’s Pharmacy.

Mrs. George R. Belcher came home from Sharon Hospital last week where she had been undergoing treatment for infected knees caused by the dye in a pair of woolen hose. She expects to resume her duties at the Journal Office soon.

LAKEVILLE — Over thirty children enjoyed a party at the home of Mrs. Alida Clark last Friday.

Harry Silvernale of the Millerton Telegram assisted the Journal force last Monday in the absence of the regular typesetting machine operator Mrs. George Belcher.

50 years ago — December 1970

SALISBURY — Lester A. Hoysradt of Salisbury has bought a cottage and piece of land on Under Mountain Road from Roger G. Sterry.

SHARON — The bodies of two men were recovered Monday afternoon from the wreckage of a single-engine, four seater Piper Cherokee plane which crashed in a heavily wooded area near Bowne Road in Ellsworth, Sharon, during the wind and snow storm Sunday evening. Dead were the pilot, Carl Turner, 56, of Poughkeepsie, and his passenger, Norbert A. Tessier, 37, of Wappingers Falls, New York.

KENT — That passenger rail service along the Berkshire Line through Kent will soon be a thing of the past is more of a reality than ever before, First Selectman Eugene O’Meara reported Tuesday night. The Federal Department of Transportation eliminated that line, along with many other, and many larger ones, when it outlined its U.S. rail network proposal last week. If that plan goes into effect, Penn-Central will have every legal right to stop passenger rail service north of Danbury on May 1, 1971.

The old schoolhouse on Skiff Mountain was recently donated to the Kent Historical Society by Mrs. Charles Gunn. The donation was announced at the recent meeting of the Society. Plans for the use of the building are not yet complete.

25 years ago — December 1995

SALISBURY — The Housatonic Day Care Center plans to relocate to its new Salmon Kill Road headquarters this weekend and open its doors to children Monday.

SHARON — Early detection and a little luck prevented Tom Riley from losing his Sharon home at 87 Gay St. Dec. 4. A Christmas ornament candle left unattended on the living room coffee table caught fire Monday afternoon -- the second such incident in the area in less than a week. A smoke detector alerted the Holst-Grubbe family on Park Avenue in Canaan of a candle fire Nov. 29. And only months before that, another candle caused a similar incident in Canaan. Both fires were caused by teenagers who left candles unattended in their bedrooms.

Earlier this year Sharon Oil and Gas Co. Inc. sent sunflower seeds to all of its customers and offered $100 for the largest diameter seed head. Lynn Cheney of Cornwall has been announced the contest winner with a sunflower measuring 17 inches in diameter. Runners-up were Helen Wright of Cornwall Bridge and Ted Panasci of Goshen.

 

These items were taken from The Lakeville Journal archives at Salisbury’s Scoville Memorial Library, keeping the original wording intact as possible.

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