Turning Back The Pages

100 years ago - April 1907

SHARON - George McGee, who worked for A.J. Bostwick the past year, has resigned his position there and opened a shop of his own in Salisbury.

 

The Observer (editorial): It is probable that the farmers will not do much plowing this week, unless it is with a snow plow.

 

SHARON - An operation for the removal of adenoids was performed upon the nose of Robert Dakin at a New York hospital last week.

 

CHAPINVILLE - Ernest Woodin started to work gardening last week, but this week he is shoveling snow trying to find his seeds.

50 years ago - April 1957

SALISBURY - Miss Nellie Ball has accepted a position at the Shagroy Farm Market. Miss Mary Luminati has resigned as bookkeeper at the market and plans to go to Florida for a two months’ vacation.

 

CANAAN - James F. McGuire has been transferred from the frame department of the Southern New England Telephone Company, in Waterbury, to the same department in the Company here in Canaan. Mr. McGuire is the son of Mrs. Francis McGuire, of Church Street.

 

CORNWALL - Ralph Benedict of New York City, son of the late Dr. Abel C. Benedict of Cornwall, called on friends in town this past week. Mr. Benedict is a well known botanist.

25 years ago - April 1982

The Tri-State area was digging out Wednesday from a blizzard that combined an 18-inch snowfall, chill howling winds and massive drifts to make the worst April storm in memory.

 

SALISBURY - Connecticut Environmental Commissioner Stanley Pac will climb Bear Mountain next month to inspect the crumbling stone tower on top, Department of Environmental Protection planner Joseph Hickey said this week. Pac had promised to make the trip before deciding whether to recommend restoration or stabilization of the 22 1/2 foot monument erected in 1885 to mark what was then thought to be the highest ground in Connecticut.

Norma Galaise

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