Turning Back the Pages

100 years ago—
October 1923

Many interested base ball fans are getting the news of the world series games at the Men’s Club each afternoon this week. It is the next best thing to attending the games personally.

LIME ROCK — John Eggleston has bought the Frost Farm and will move there next spring.

The Brasie and Loucks families have moved into the Clara Barnum homestead in Lime Rock this week and John Lowe has moved into the rooms they vacated.

LAKEVILLE — Miss Annie Pulver is building a new cottage next to James Martin’s place on Church Street.

The Suffragette will tell what she thinks about Cupid at Roberts Hall on October 18th.

50 years ago —

 October 1973

Young Peter Reilly, his bond reduced to $50,000, remains in the Litchfield Detention Center. Friends in Canaan and Falls Village were to meet Wednesday to discuss raising funds for a bondsman. Police have released few details of the murder of Peter’s mother, Barbara Gibbons. It is known that Miss Gibbons, 51, was seen outside her small one-story home at about 8:30 p.m. Peter was seen by many people at a Youth Center meeting in Canaan from 8 to 9:15 p.m. One witness placed him in the North Canaan center at 9:45, five miles from the murder scene.

The Salisbury Association has been granted a conservation easement on the old iron furnace located in Lime Rock on property owned by Lucille Singleton Fish. Both Mrs. Fish and the property’s prospective owners, Richard and Freya Block of New York City, agreed to the easement, which will allow the association to restore and preserve what the granting document describes as “the historic Iron Furnace and appurtenant stone structures and walls.”

Last Friday’s gusty October winds caused a freak fire on Music Mountain. The gusts felled a limb which smashed a transformer and wires which in turn set the tree in flames. Falls Village firemen were called out to extinguish the blaze. No one was hurt.

25 years ago —
October 1998

Steve Blass began his baseball career by getting traded. As an eight-year-old tyke in 1950, Blass was all set to play for the Little League Yankees. But he was too small for his uniform, so he was traded to the Canaan Giants, who wore smaller attire. The rest was history. The Falls Village native, who will be in town for Steve Blass Day, went on to win 103 games in the major leagues, all with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

A son, Justin William Dean, was born Sept. 23 at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital to Stephen and Melody Dean of Falls Village. Maternal grandparents are Leno and Betty Bernoi of Canaan. Paternal grandparents are George and Joan Dean of Falls Village. 

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