Turning back the pages

100 years ago — August 1915

SALISBURY — Frank Sherwood, of the U.S. Army, who has been home on a furlough, has left town to rejoin his regiment which is stationed in Panama.

LIME ROCK — Mrs. R.N. Barnum gave a dance to her help in the Casino on Tuesday night. A fine time was had by all.

CHAPINVILLE — Charles Schleiffarth visited his grandmother during the week.

LIME ROCK -- Little Marjorie Richardson is ill with an abscess. 

Postmaster Stuart requests that if you have friends visiting you to please ask for mail at the post office. There is considerable unclaimed mail, which if not called for must either be returned to the sender or to the division of dead letters, thus causing delay.

The electric street lights were turned on last Thursday evening, and gave general satisfaction. For the past few nights, both the gas and electric lights have been in operation with the result that our streets were never so brightly illuminated before. The electric lights will probably be the regular thing after September 1st, after which we understand the gas will be discontinued.

50 years ago — August 1965

CANAAN — Capt. and Mrs. James Herd and their daughter, Linda, and new son James (born June 28), paid a recent visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Herd of East Main Street. They also visited the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brunet of Springfield, Mass. They have now returned to the Canal Zone, where Capt. Herd is on an extended tour of duty with the U.S. Air Force.

SHARON — Miss Linda Lundeen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Lundeen, has been accepted as a member of the freshman class at Post Junior College in Waterbury. She is a 1965 graduate of the Housatonic Valley Regional High School.

CANAAN —  Louis Consolini, David Hamzy, Forrest Downing and Zac Cande drove their antique cars in the recent parade in Charlemont, Mass., during that Town’s 200th anniversary celebration.

CORNWALL — Mr. and Mrs. C. Whittlesey Hart and son, Philip, are on a motor trip to Maine and other northern New England states.

25 years ago — August 1990

SHARON — Sharon has begun shopping early for a filtration system to meet an expected Federal EPA Safe Drinking Water Act that will require towns to filter drinking water. The project cost for a filtration plant would be borne by 1,000 of Sharon’s approximate 2,900 residents, the burden falling on those who receive water from the town’s reservoirs, Beardsley Pond and Caulkinstown Pond.