Turning Back The Pages June 4

100 years ago — June 1909

CANAAN — A party of Standard Oil officials from Boston made the Canfield their headquarters on Friday.

SALISBURY — Mrs. Louis Devantrey who is suffering with a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism is slowly improving.

CANAAN — C.M. Gibbs and C.H. Sage spent Thursday fishing in one of the Connecticut streams and had fairly good luck, says a Great Barrington correspondent. Mr. Sage caught what fishermen claim to be one of the most peculiar-shaped trout ever seen about here. The fish was shaped exactly like a bass. It measured about eight inches and weighed five and a half ounces. Game Warden Ross of Canaan was presented with the trout and will have it mounted.

SALISBURY — A new monument has been placed in Lorin Miller’s plot in Salisbury cemetery.

CHAPINVILLE — W.H. Seeley and party of friends from Hartford spent Sunday and Monday in their private car on the siding and enjoyed the fishing hereabouts.

SALISBURY — Mr. and Mrs. Renshaw who purchased the Hutchinson place arrived in town Tuesday.

50 years ago — June 1959

The Salisbury Planning and Zoning Commission met on May 28 and voted that the technical draft of zoning as presented at the public hearing on May 1 shall be made effective as of Monday, June 8.

SALISBURY — Mrs. Ward Belcher and her granddaughter, Jane, met Mr. and Mrs. Ben Belcher on June 3 in New York City upon their return from Russia where Mr. Belcher was representing the U.S. paint industry at the Industrial Fair in Moscow.

CORNWALL — Mrs. Anne Welles has rented her house for the summer to Mr. and Mrs. Cohn of New York who were in the home of Miss Virginia Smith last summer.

KENT — Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Schwartz have come back to Coeur d’Alene after an exciting winter vacation in Africa.

About 28 friends and relatives of the C. Stanley Sherwood Sr.’s enjoyed picnicking at the picnic area back of the Sherwood home on Memorial Day.

25 years ago — June 1984

FALLS VILLAGE — The South Canaan Meeting House is slated for renovation this year to stabilize and preserve the historic edifice. Built in 1804 the building is noted as being a significant example of early American church architecture. It is now owned by the Falls Village-Canaan Historical Society. The first project will concentrate on the exterior. Subsequent projects will repair the interior.

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