100 years ago — May 1915
SALISBURY — The work of installing electric lights for our streets is now under way. New poles are being set in some places and wires are being strung on the telephone poles. The village will now soon be lighted by electricity instead of gas.
Auto Livery — Have a good five passenger touring car, and will take out parties any evening after 6 o’clock, or on Sunday, for reasonable consideration. Phone 81. A.A. Roys at J.S. Perkins’
LAKEVILLE — A freak dandelion, which contained five blossoms on one stem, was picked by Carl Miller on the roadside near his home one day last week.
LIME ROCK — Messrs. C.W. Barnum, Bradley, Brasie and Belcher spent Friday of last week in Poughkeepsie.
CHAPINVILLE — Master Ward Whitbeck is visiting his grandparents in Salisbury for a few days.
50 years ago — May 1965
Kenneth and Margaret Beeman of the Broken Wheel Pony Ranch, Johnson Hollow, attended their first show of the current season on Sunday at Rocking H.R. Riding Club, Lanesboro, Mass., and Margaret came away with four blue ribbons and the trophy of the day, won on the pony, Comanche, which had been trained by her brother, Kenneth.
NORFOLK — Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hotchkiss have moved into an apartment in the Burr house on Greenwoods Road. Residing in another apartment on the Burr property are Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Jenkins, who were married earlier this month in East Canaan.
LAKEVILLE — Mrs. Edward Clark of Farnam Road became a patient at the Sharon Hospital on Monday.
CANAAN — Mrs. Eileen Pratt, chairman of the North Canaan Board of Education, has announced that John Pozzi of Huntington has been employed to serve as principal of the North Canaan Elementary School in September. Mr. Pozzi is a nephew of John Pozzi of Orchard Street.
25 years ago — May 1990
CANAAN — The Newkirk Funeral Home, which has operated in Northwest Connecticut for over 30 years, has been sold to Robert and Debra Palmer of Canaan. Francis J. Gomez of Lakeville, President of Newkirk Funeral Homes Inc. for 17 years, said the transfer was made May 1.
NORFOLK — One of the oldest structures in town was destroyed last Sunday by fire. The Chrissy Barn, located on Windrow Road and part of the 6,500 acres that make up Great Mountain Forest, burned to the ground despite the efforts of Norfolk’s volunteer fire department. A truck, skidder, wood chipper, log splitter and antique outrigger canoe, along with thousands of board feet of prime lumber stored in the barn to dry, were all destroyed in the blaze.
These items were taken from old Lakeville Journals and contain spellings and phrases from long ago.
