Turning Back the Pages

100 years ago — August 1923

Edward Gianotte of Sheffield formely of Salisbury has sold his team of horses to a New York party and has purchased a Mack truck.

Mrs. H.V. Eggleston of Lime Rock has been quite ill with ptomaine poisoning, but has now nearly recovered.

The apple trees in this section are looking brown and dead. This condition is due to the leaf skeletonizer, a small worm that eats the leaves, leaving just the dead fibres. Trees should be sprayed as this has been found to be a help in keeping down the pest.

The Post Office will be closed one hour during Friday afternoon from 4 to 5 during the funeral of President Harding.

Miss Anna Smith of Ore Hill has gone to Sharon where she is employed by the Treat family.

Landlord Lawrence  of the New Wononsco has been indisposed this week with ivy poisoning.

50 years ago — August 1973

Only two food stores out of eight sampled in the Northwest Connecticut- New York area indicated any reasonable quantity of beef this past week. The others incurred drastic cuts in their beef supply, while several stores reported no beef shipments at all this past week.

The water in Lake Wononscopomuc is the cleanest this year than it has been in the past five or six years, according to Edward “Ted” Davis, biology master at the Hotchkiss School. For the past six years, Mr. Davis has conducted extensive studies and experiments on the lake as well as other lakes, in an attempt to curb the weed problem.

Betty Atwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Atwood of Falls Village, won the most points at last Saturday’s Jack Brown 4-H Fair in East Canaan. Miss Atwood accumulated a total of 76 points for her entries in the dairy division, clothing, records, food and garden contests. She received a plaque honoring her for the most entries with the highest score.

25 years ago — August 1998

Those who thought they were getting premium spring water from the kettle beside Salisbury Town Hall, think again. The only thing flowing through that tap for the last three weeks has been regular town water. There is a valve in the basement of Town Hall that controls the kettle’s water source. According to First Selectman Robert Smithwick, the switch was made in order to conduct tests on the water.

A group of Canaan co-workers who found fame and fortune after they won the lottery last October recently found themselves in the limelight again. As last week’s fever over the $295 million Powerball jackpot was cooling, a CNN news crew appeared at the Specialty Minerals plant last Friday morning to film a segment seeking advice for the new multi- millionaires from former winners.

Family, friends and scouting council executives gathered on the shore of the fishing pond at the Northwest Connecticut Rod and Gun Club on a sunny afternoon last Saturday to witness the joint reciting of the Eagle Pledge, bestow accolades and celebrate the remarkable achievements of Jonathan Trotta and Daniel Peppe, Canaan Troop 22’s newest Eagle Scouts.

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