Turning Back The Pages

100 years ago — January 1907

LIME ROCK — The wages of the gray iron workers and core makers in the plant of Barnum Richardson Co. have been raised 10 percent, taking effect Jan. 1. The increase was a voluntary one on the part of the company.

 

FALLS VILLAGE — Nicholas Rogers is back in his former place at Frink’s drug store.

 

The Observer (editorial): What pessimist ever planned to have the January settlements come so soon after Christmas, when the average pocketbook looks as if the elephant had stepped on it.

 

50 years ago — January 1957

KENT — Mrs. H.B. Fowler had the misfortune to fall and fracture her left wrist recently.

 

LIME ROCK — The Lakeville Hose Company was called to the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Mallach about 9 a.m. December 29 to extinguish a fire which had started in one of the closets.

 

KENT — Mrs. Howard B. Stone of Elizabeth Street entertained her children and grandchildren Christmas Day.

 

CORNWALL — First prize of $25 in the Christmas Decoration competition for residents was won by Freddie Gomez of Cornwall Bridge who had arranged the front door of his parents’ home, Postmaster and Mrs. Wesley Gomez, to represent a package tied with silver paper and red ribbon.

 

25 years ago — January 1982

Bullets thrown by a slingshot shattered at least 33 windows of businesses and residences in four Northwest Corner towns last week. The sporadic incidents began in Sharon around midnight on Dec. 29 and moved into Salisbury early the next morning, State Police said. On New Year’s Eve the bullets, bolts, nuts and rocks began to fly again in Canaan and Cornwall.

 

Nine pound three ounce Robert Christopher Cordella arrived on Jan. 1 to become Sharon Hospital’s first 1982 baby. His brothers, Brian, 5 1/2, and David, 2 1/2, met their new brother for the first time during Saturday’s visiting hours. His parents, Linda and Robert, live in Pine Plains.

—Norma Galai

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