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Turning Back The Pages

100 years ago — September 1918

LIME ROCK — Benjamin Richards has resigned his position as chauffeur at Mr. C.W. Barnum’s and gone to Waterville to work.

 

LAKEVILLE — The Misses Ethel, Charlotte and Mary Judd, Mary Lorigan and Miriam Everts spent last Thursday evening at Joseph Beebe’s in Sharon.

 

LIME ROCK — Much sympathy is felt for Mr. Hunter who has lost both his brother and mother within a few weeks.

 

LIME ROCK — J. Buck injured his foot while loading car wheels recently.

 

50 years ago — September 1968

Funeral services were held this week for Romeo Botacchi, 54, and Mrs. Patricia Zinke, 25, both of North Canaan, who were killed late Sunday afternoon when the small single-engine plane in which they were flying crashed shortly after a takeoff from Canaan Airport. It was the second fatal accident at the local airfield, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Conklin having lost their lives in a freak mishap about two years ago.

 

Alan Eddy of Scarsdale, N.Y., who has spent many summers at the home of his mother, Mrs. A.A. Talmage at Cream Hill in Cornwall, has recently sailed a fiberglass sailboat around the world. Skipper Eddy crossed his own track in the West Indies in his 30-foot ketch Apogee after three years. He says he undertook the journey for personal satisfaction and to see much of the world by water.

 

With possibly one more starting assignment this year for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Steve Blass beat Cincinnati in a shutout recently for his 18th win against five losses. Enjoying his best big league season, the former Regional High School pitcher is sixth in earned-run effectiveness among National Leaguers with 2.10. He is also sixth in the total number of games won and tied for second with the least number of games lost.

 

25 years ago — September 1993

CORNWALL — Tons of debris were hauled from the Housatonic River by 1500 volunteers working along the 130-mile course of the stream from Pittsfield, Mass., to Long Island Sound last Saturday. Among the more unusual items hauled to the surface for disposal were the remains of an old still, two lawn mowers, several TV antennae, bed spring and mattresses, car parts and a kitchen sink.

 

Items were taken from past issues of The Lakeville Journal.

 

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