Turning Back The Pages - September 3

100 years ago — 1909

LIME ROCK — J. Malcuit met with quite an accident by mashing one of his fingers.

Early risers claim that there was a white frost early Tuesday morning.

CANAAN — Mr. Conklin has sold his milk route to Stiles Stevens of Canaan Valley.

50 years ago — 1959

Four fire departments battled the blaze which broke out in the newly remodeled Surrey Restaurant in Lime Rock early Wednesday morning. In spite of the concerted efforts of the Lakeville, Sharon, North Canaan and Falls Village fire companies, the rear of the building was completely demolished and the damage throughout extensive.

LIME ROCK — Officer Stanley Szczesiul, resident State Police Officer in Salisbury, answered a complaint last Sunday made by a Lime Rock resident and arrested three young men at the Lime Rock track for unauthorized racing. Two of the young men, Frederick Landers Jr. of New Jersey and Alden Head of Maine, were racing their cars on the track when Officer Szczesiul arrived on the scene. The third man, Robert Adams of New York, was sitting in his car watching.

The three had come to Lime Rock apparently thinking that there were still Sunday races and seeing no activity, had gone to the infield gate. They succeeded in getting their vehicles through the chain barrier and into the pit area in order to race their cars on the track.

SALISBURY — John Smithey of Anaheim, Calif., came east to visit his sister, Mrs. William Peters, last weekend. This was the first time in seven years that the brother and sister had seen each other.

25 years ago — 1984

Most TV viewers saw crewman Thomas Kiefer as an anonymous stranger when the American team took second place in the four-with-coxswain rowing event in Los Angeles earlier this month. But in Lakeville, the Olympian drew praise as a hometown hero. Mr. Kiefer in a speech to a gathering of 50 well-wishers on Saturday at Town Grove thanked his mother, Town Clerk Louise McGrath, and his father, Selectman George Kiefer, for their years of emotional and financial support.

Cassie Silta, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Silta of Lakeville, graduated this week from the Physician Associate Program at the Yale University School of Medicine. Ms. Silta was ranked first in her class and her clinical research paper was selected for honors presentation. In September she will begin a surgical residency program at Norwalk Hospital, in conjunction with Yale.

News items are taken directly from decades-old Lakeville Journals and retain original spellings and phrasing.

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