Turning Back the Pages - August 6, 2020

 100 years ago­ — August 1920

SALISBURY — Richmond Landon is now enroute for Antwerp as a member of the Olympic Team which will compete for world championship. Richmond is a high jumper, his record being within a quarter inch of the best high jumping record in this country. 

LIME ROCK — Fran Betz who runs the Richardson farm while after cows Monday afternoon captured two rattlesnakes, one measuring four feet and having twelves rattles and the other three feet and having eight rattles.

At a recent meeting of the State Child Welfare Commission it was decided that the Commission should recommend legislation which will abolish the penalty of life imprisonment and the death penalty for children under eighteen accused of offenses for which under present laws these may be the penalties. 

50 years ago — August 1970

At the peak of Friday night’s torrential rain storm a power line break on Valley Road required a fire truck to stand by until HELCO men could come and repair the damage. The siren sounded the alert ... but then kept on sounding. Nothing any of the men at the Lakeville fire house did seemed to help. The siren kept on howling. At about 1 a.m. Stewart and Ann Hoskins of the Journal, thinking that either a state of world emergency was being declared or the siren itself was on fire, came down to investigate. With the Journal office keys they were able to provide access to the building so the firemen could turn off the main switch and gain temporary silence while they investigated the trouble.

FALLS VILLAGE — Mr. and Mrs. Roland B. Chinatti and their five children have returned to their home on Warren Turnpike after spending the last several years in Hawaii. Mr. Chinatti was formerly Director of Physical Education at Housatonic Valley Regional High School. He is returning to the school in September as guidance counselor.

25 years ago — August 1995

CANAAN — Amidst the still rolling waters stirred up by charges that chemical and radiation exposure has caused health problems at the Becton Dickinson plant comes news that the cobalt-60 irradiation facility may be shut down. 

CANAAN — A ball field that will be part of the local Little League’s future was officially dedicated this week. But it was memories of the past that highlighted the brief and moving ceremony. Named in honor of brothers Stanley M. and the late Anthony J. Segalla, the Clayton Road field is already familiarly referred to simply as Segalla Field.

These items were taken from The Lakeville Journal archives at Salisbury’s Scoville Memorial Library.