Turning Back The Pages

100 years ago — April 1920

The members of the Bald Head Club are smacking their lips in anticipation of the banquet to be held in Hotel Stratfield at Bridgeport May 1st. W.W. Norton now has tickets for sale.

SALISBURY — The buildings on the Willard Farm have been greatly improved with a new dress of paint.

A petition has been filed with the Massachusetts legislature for a reorganization of the Berkshire Street Railway Co., granting it authority to receive financial assistance from the towns served by it.

The students at the Hotchkiss School have formed an old clothes club. Every student will get all the wear possible from his old clothes as protest against the high cost of clothing.

LAKEVILLE — John Francis captured a large hoot owl said to be a great horned owl while that bird was attempting a raid on the chicken coop at the Peabody farm last Sunday night.

50 years ago — April 1970

Earth Day, originally planned for campuses and schools, snowballed into a day of national dedication to a livable environment for all people. At Sharon Audubon Center students from schools in Connecticut and New York State gathered yesterday to talk about environmental problems.

Opportunity to comment pro or con regarding the proposed pumped-storage hydro-electric plant in Falls Village or at the Sheffield site is offered by the Federal Power Commission, according to Gordon Grant, commission secretary who was interviewed by the Journal this week by telephone in Washington D.C. Any such comments or protests must be filed with the commission in Washington on or before June 8.

Government officials and interested citizens concerned with deterioration of passenger service on the Harlem Division of the Penn-Central Railroad will hold an open meeting to formulate plans for action on Saturday May 2 at 2:30 p.m. in the Community Room over the Millerton Free Library, Millerton, N.Y.

25 years ago — April 1995

CANAAN — An Ashley Falls man escaped injury but was arrested for drunk driving after his truck was hit by a train Sunday night when he drove into its path. The man was driving north on Railroad Street at 11:34 p.m. when he made an abrupt right turn onto Orchard Street just as a Housatonic Railroad Company freight train was moving through the intersection. His ’93 Ford pickup was pushed onto a grassy median adjacent to the tracks by the impact.