100 years ago — September 1918
SALISBURY — Miss Julia Finnegan is enjoying a vacation from her duties in the office of the Connecticut Power Co. in Canaan part of which she is spending with friends in Waterbury.
Mr. A.W. Twiss on Wednesday received through the mails from some one unknown, the sum of $25. The letter was mailed in New York, but not a scrap of writing, or anything to identify the sender accompanied it. Mr. Twiss is of the opinion that the money is “conscience” money but says he has been stung so many times that he has no idea which one sent the $25.
50 years ago — September 1968
Sometimes it takes a little doing to put just the right kind of “country” into those Salem commercials. Creation of those bubbling, “spontaneous” water falls for Salem cigarette television commercials cannot be wholly attributed to Nature. Last Friday, members of the Kent Fire Department assisted Salem’s advertising firm in filming a segment of a commercial at Kent Falls, where the water flow is less than exuberant this time of year.
Mention of Nigeria today may bring to the mind’s eye a vision of war and the starving people of Biafra. But to Fremont E. Besmer of Kent, who leaves for northern Nigeria this week, the African country will be home to him, his wife and two young sons for the coming year while he pursues his anthropological/musicological research on the Hausa tribe in the city of Kano.
Wheels (car adv.) 1963 VW SEDAN, good condition, radio. Call (203) 824-0114 after 6 p.m.
25 years ago — September 1993
SALISBURY — Donald Stevens Jr. of Salisbury won third best in show last weekend at the Connecticut River Carving Competition in Hanover, N.H., with his pied bill grebe decoy. In all, Stevens, one of 147 competitors, captured six blues in various divisions with models of a shoveler, a ruddy duck, an old squaw hen, a lesser scaup, the grebe, and a common merganser.
Items are from past issues of The Lakeville Journal.
