Turning back the pages

100 years ago — July 1914SALISBURY — W. Blanchard Rand has purchased a second hand car recently owned by Charles Spurr.Sheffield will be lighted by electricity the first of September, also the village of Ashley Falls. The Great Barrington electric light company will furnish the power. The setting of the poles from Great Barrington to Ashley Falls, a distance of 12 miles, has been completed.Beef has taken another jump and that must be the reason why the cow jumped over the moon.SALISBURY — Station agent W.P. Bishop has returned to his duties after a two weeks’ vacation.Farmers have been busy gathering a good crop of hay between showers.The Haynes touring car of Arthur A. Bray of Falls Village caught fire near the Point-of-rocks Saturday and was destroyed.LAKEVILLE — Dr. W.B. Bissell is carrying his left arm in a sling owing to an attack of local infection.LIME ROCK — Miss Genevieve Malcuit is visiting at Grandma Morgan’s in Lakeville.50 years ago — July 1964White flags that blossomed in the corn and forage crop fields of the area last weekend did not indicate a surrender to an invasive force of bats from Mars nor a surrender to the very real local and state-wide threat of army worms. These flags were put in the fields to mark those that were to be sprayed from the air in this critical period in the fight to stop the army worms before too much damage has been done.Everett L. King of East Canaan has returned to work with the Hartford Electric Light Company, following a week’s vacation.KENT — The family of Rudolph Modley on Skiff Mountain has just returned from a cross-country trip to Alaska, during which, in a little over a month’s time, they covered 11,000 miles.CORNWALL — Martin Oppenheimer and Ralph Gold attended the Newport Folk Festival on the weekend.25 years ago — July 1989CANAAN — Segalla Construction of Canaan is the apparent winner of the contract for construction of a sewer line extension to Patty Lane, The Lakeville Journal learned last week. With a bid of $58,761, Segalla was the lowest bidder of about a dozen bidders, some of whom ran as high as $85,000.These items are taken from decades-old Lakeville Journals and contain original spellings and phrases.