Turning Back the Pages

100 years ago — June 1923

Mrs. C.A. Goddard and family of Cheshire have opened the Goddard cottage here. Dr. Goddard is with them and expects to spend the summer here. It is expected that Mrs. Stamp and Mrs. Morton will be in Salisbury later on. Dr. Goddard’s many friends are pleased to greet him again and he declares that Salisbury looks good to him.

Users of the footbridge over Factory Pond are warned that the bridge is not considered safe and are advised not to pass over it.

“Brick” Melvin’s left wrist was quite badly bitten by a tame coon which he was petting at the home of relatives in Burlington last Sunday. “Brick” is on the job but his wrist is about the color of his hair at present.

Awnings of gray and green stripes have been placed over every window and along the front porch of the Wononsco House. This in connection with the new dress of paint makes the hotel very attractive. Landlord Lawrence has also extensively renovated and refurnished the interior of the hotel and it would now be difficult to find a neater hotel anywhere.

50 years ago — June 1973

Installation of a large Cottrell Vanguard web offset press began Wednesday in a new pressroom at The Lakeville Journal built for the purpose. When installation is completed the four-unit press will be capable of printing up to 15,000 16-page sections an hour and will have color capability.

Several members of the Salisbury High School Class of 1933 celebrated their 40th reunion last Saturday night at the Mount Everett Country Club in South Egremont, Mass.

The Lime Rock Raceway will resound with the boom of the newly made six pound cannon owned by the First Litchfield Artillery on Saturday July 7 at noon. The new artillery piece, which took two years to complete, will be one of the cannons to fire a salute to Oliver Wolcott, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Mark Weaver graduated June 19 from Oliver Wolcott Regional Vocational-Technical School in Torrington. He completed the four-year carpentry trade course. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie J. Weaver.

It was Sunday in Falls Village — Loretta D. Smith Day — bright and sunny. Guests started arriving at the Falls Village Congregational Church at 3 p.m. to honor Mrs. Smith, who retired last June after teaching at the Lee H. Kellogg School for 29 years.

The highlight of the 1973 Sports Car Club of America racing program at Lime Rock Park will be the July 7 Datsun SCCA Nationals. Over 250 entrants are expected to compete in 10 half-hour races counting toward all-important national championship points.

“Auntie Pollution,” who has belabored the cause of conservation and ecology on Journal pages for the past two years, takes off her mask of anonymity this week as she retires from an active writing career. She is Lucy Harvey of Salisbury, and has chosen this moment to cancel her column because, at the age of 78, she is too busy with too many activities.

25 years ago — June 1998

Connecticut Light and Power announced this week the sale to the National Park Service of 57 acres of land to become part of the Appalachian Trail System. The property, which runs along the Housatonic River in the towns of New Milford and Kent, will become part of the Appalachian Trail Relocation Project.

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