Turning Back The Pages

100 years ago — January 1919

The Robbins Burrall Trust Co. have installed this week a Burroughs Ledger Posting and Statement machine. This machine, which is electrically operated, is the “last word in mechanical bookkeepers” and was purchased in order to keep up with the growing business of the company.

LIME ROCK — Some people are filling their ice houses from Gillette Pond. The ice is eleven inches thick.

SHARON — Miss Harriet Eggleston spent part of last week in New York.

CANAAN — Miss Bessie Colligan has accepted a position with the Southern New England Telephone Company.

SHARON — Lieut. C.I. Place of the Aviation Corps was a visitor in town recently.

LAKEVILLE — Capt. Harold Hamlin and family left here Tuesday enroute for Cuba, where he will resume his former occupation.

Horace Landon while at work in his orchard on Wednesday picked up a fine russet apple in splendid condition. Going some for January 29th.

50 years ago — January 1969

Two new residents of Kent were seriously injured in a one-car collision in New Fairfield last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Michel Rodrigo, both 27, who have contracted to buy Bull’s Bridge Inn, suffered severe back and pelvic injuries in the accident and are patients at Danbury Hospital.

KENT — Mrs. Albert Jack is a surgical patient at Sharon Hospital, and reportedly “coming along well.”

Adv. VILLAGE HOME Colonial house well located on large plot. Trees, town water, barn-garage, insulation, storm sash, 2 porches, oil hot-water heat, 10 rooms, 2 baths. Offered at $32,000.

Dr. Vincent J. Peppe of Canaan is in Ithaca, N.Y., this week attending the annual conference for veterinarians at Cornell University. He also will visit his daughter, Holly, a student at Ithaca College.

25 years ago — January 1994

FALLS VILLAGE — Housatonic Valley Regional High School is planning to form what its principal called a “Respect Team” and to call in outside consultants to help resolve student social rifts most recently demonstrated by a hallway brawl that led to the arrest of seven teenagers. The cause of the melee has been attributed largely to lingering social divisions between white vocational agriculture students and black student body members.

Items were taken from past issues of The Lakeville Journal.