Turning Back The Pages

100 years ago ­— 1920

LIME ROCK — Charles Brasie had the misfortune to fracture his right wrist while cranking his car last Friday.

LAKEVILLE —Mrs. George Belcher the type setting machine operator at the Journal Office has been in Sharon Hospital this week to be treated for localized poison caused by the dye in a pair of new woolen hose which she was wearing. She is now doing nicely and expects soon to return to her work in the Journal Office.

ORE HILL — John Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sherman and family went to Becket, Mass. to spend the holiday with relatives. In that section there is deep snow and fishermen are fishing through the ice.

LIME ROCK — Hilen Eggleston is home for awhile.

 

50 years ago — 1970

SALISBURY —Well-known writer and Salisbury resident Hal Borland announced his resignation from Project CEVAL in a recent letter to CEVAL president Mrs. Bernard H. Flood. Noting the reasons for his resignation, which he termed “effective at once,” Borland stated “I have been disappointed and disillusioned by the almost total lack of accomplishment and the absence of what I would consider an effective program for the future.”

SHARON — Lucinda Milne Monell, daughter of Mrs. Joan M. Monell of Sharon, has been cited as one of the outstanding high school students of English in the country. The National Council of Teachers of English has named her a 1970 national runner-up in its annual Achievement Award competition.

 

25 years ago — 1995

KENT — The Department of Public Utilities Control will convene a hearing next Monday at 1 p.m. in New Britain on a petition submitted by Bruce Adams of Kent asking that calls between all six towns feeding into Housatonic Valley Regional High School be toll free. Adams last year collected the required 300 petition signatures representing 15 percent of Kent’s telephone subscribers. 

CORNWALL — The Cornwall Bridge Post Office was damaged last Friday when a motorist crashed her vehicle into the building. The driver’s foot slipped, hit the accelerator, and the van smashed into the ramp and railing and plate glass that fronted the modest building on Route 7. The only injury evidently was to Gordon Cavanaugh, who was checking through his mail when the van hit a desk that smashed into his leg, leaving him “black and blue,” he said later.

 

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

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