Turning Back the Pages

100 years ago — August 1923

Robert Fowlkes has purchased a new Ford touring car of A.S. Martin.

Miss Mildred McCarrick is assisting at the telegraph office during the absence of C. Bartholomew.

A drive to secure members for the Lime Rock - Falls Village Public Health Nursing Association will start August 27th. The annual dues will be one dollar. It is hoped that every individual in the community will try to help the work by joining. The slogan of the association is: Healthy children! Happy homes! Help in sickness!

Adv: Wanted — A High School girl 16 years old, wants place to stay and work outside of school hours. Telephone 15-14 Lakeville.

Once more our much beloved and respected “Boss” is enjoying his annual vacation from the Journal Office, leaving the rest of the Force in charge, and as his farewell words were “don’t forget to put my name in the Journal”, we are obeying orders to the best of our ability. Bright and early this morning (yes, that’s the truth), he set out in his car on a motor trip to Lake George, Saranac Lake, Thousand Islands, and Canada, just why they all end up in Canada is a mystery. He was accompanied on this trip by Mrs. Jones, Mrs. G.A. Barnum and Miss Mame Barnum, whom it is thought, will see that he returns safe and sound in time to edit next week’s Journal.

50 years ago — August 1973

Both speakers at last Friday’s Free Forum in Salisbury charged that the current gasoline and heating fuel shortages have been contrived by the major oil companies. State Attorney General Robert K. Killian and Geoffrey Smith of the Canaan Oil Company both asserted that the oil companies have withheld their products from the market to increase profits.

Michael Hickey, 17, of Lincoln City Road, Lakeville, was released from Sharon Hospital Wednesday after receiving treatment for injuries incurred in a spectacular one-car accident in Lakeville Sunday about 6:45 p.m. According to bystanders, Mr. Hickey was driving an orange MGB GT westbound on Route 44 and lost control of his car near the top of Holley Street. The vehicle reportedly careened sideways in front of the former Salisbury Bank, forced another vehicle off the road, hit the road bank in front of the Gateway Annex and somersaulted in the air, landing upside down on the left side of the road.

Many paintings that were done in Salisbury and the surrounding area of the Berkshires by Elsa de Brun Nuala were exhibited recently at the Bymuseum in Copenhagen, Denmark. During the exhibit the work of the 77-year-old great-grandmother was filmed for a world-wide TV special being prepared by the British writer Malcolm Muggeridge. Mrs. Nuala did many of the paintings in the late Ellen Emmett Rand’s studio on the Edith Scoville property, now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Gignoux on Taconic Road.

25 years ago — August 1998

Imagine walking from Georgia to Maine. Imagine trying to finish it in five months. And, oh yeah, wait until you are 79 years old to do it. Is it possible? If anyone can do it, it would be Earl Shaffer. In 1948, Mr. Shaffer became the first man ever to hike the Appalachian Trail from end to end. This summer, 50 years later, Shaffer is looking to repeat the accomplishment.

At Canaan National Bank, rather than grin and bear the regular inquiries, officials decided to make it crystal clear that they are going to remain the local “hometown” bank. A red and white banner was hung recently on the front of the Main Street bank’s story, proclaiming “THIS BANK IS NOT FOR SALE.” “We’re just telling the world that all the other banks can sell out to the big guys, but we will still be here, taking care of our customers,” said bank president Gerry Baldwin.

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

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